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I did the transcription, but not the dialogs and labels etc. So I can say with certainty that it wasn't automated :)

What made the transcription "cringe"? I'd like to believe it's accurate.



Oops, sorry about carelessly throwing the "cringe" label at that. Thanks for the transcript which allowed me to enjoy the content, which I did find very interesting.

I haven't watched the video so I am not sure how he actually talks, but what read cringe to me was things like the following paragraph:

"Stephen Robinson: Yeah. So let’s, let’s break it down into address generation versus execution. So, when you have three load execution ports, you need three load address generators. And so that’s there. On the store side, we have four store address generation units. But we only sustain two stores into the data cache."

Which reads weird. "let's" repeated twice, probably a stutter, could be transcribed just once. The "So" or "And so" the interviewee uses all the time at the start of sentences can also be removed for clearer and easier reading most of the time, without loss of meaning. Some sentences can almost be removed completely as they provide no actual information. The previous paragraph could be transcribed like this:

"Stephen Robinson: Let’s break it down into address generation versus execution. When you have three load execution ports, you need three load address generators. That’s there. On the store side, we have four store address generation units. But we only sustain two stores into the data cache."

I hesitate to remove "That's there." so I left it. But everything else I removed, it makes it clearer, and I think I'm not being unfaithful to the original. Removing the duplicate "let's" is a given as it's normal to stutter when speaking, but you don't really want to transcribe that unless the goal is to transcribe the talking imperfections we all have. And all the other things I removed, "Yeah", "So", "And so", are basically the same type of thing.

I thought this was automated because it had so many of the meaningless go-to words and hesitations from the original. Now that you mention it, automated transcription would probably never have produced something this good. And otherwise we are talking about stylistic preference here, always subjective -- although I'd definitely prefer the style of transcription suggest here.

Thanks again. I read chips and cheese with interest, quite often, and enjoy it quite a lot. Keep up the good work. And sorry for the careless put-down.


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Users willingness to apologize is one of the better parts of this forum.

Lets not discourage it with trite comments like this :)




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