2021 questions (49 and 50/365) + Fun with Panopto

[nanila]

February 18

What are you most fascinated by at the moment?

Finding ways to prove that we should make STEMM subjects more accessible by actually talking about endemic issues with discriminatory language and culture in higher education and industry while teaching technical topics, not as an afterthought or an optional add-on. 

Space debris and space traffic management.

February 19

What are the three most dominant emotions in your life right now?

Determination, ambition, and mild panic.

Finally, here are the two most recent wonderful misinterpretations that the auto-captioning software on Panopto offered up on my pre-recorded lecture material.

My name: Anthony Anketell [no.]
A phrase: "If all of the subsystems have a bank of horsepower bear," [backup or a spare]

Comments

[kotturinn]

🐻🔌🐎
Sorrynotsorry
😹

[nanila]

Bwaha! Horsepower Bear is mighty.

[cmcmck]

Having both a given name and a married name that are infinitely bogupable, I can relate to this! :o)

Since you mention horsepower bear:

[pbristow]

YAY! [HUGS DA BEAR] =:o}

[nanila]

I didn't think I needed more cuddly toys, but now I do. 🤣

[cmcmck]

Always! :o)

[annofowlshire]

Your fascinations could literally change the world.

Determination, ambition, and mild panic. I know these feelings, but perhaps for less world-changing endeavors XD

[nanila]

I don't think my personal fascination with those topics is quite at the world changing impact level, and they might never be. I'll be very happy if I make a difference to my students.

[annofowlshire]

Making a difference to students is exactly what I’m talking about :)

[white_hart]

We were contacted by a concerned academic a couple of weeks ago who was convinced that their lecture on Swift had somehow been given the captions from a business meeting. Careful listening revealed this not to be the case, but Panopto appeared to have decided that it *was* a business meeting and guessed at the words being spoken accordingly.

[nanila]

Ha, that's not creepy at all, nope.

I feel like it's performing better this semester than it did last term? It seems to recognise some of the technical language that I had to correct laboriously last time around.

[silveradept]

Accessible STEM is an important topic, and having conversations about that baked in is a very good idea.

Those are very impressive autocaption errors.

[nanila]

I wish we could hire you into library services here. 🙂

The captioning errors are getting fewer, but when they do occur, they seem to be worse!

[silveradept]

I would certainly give it my all, but I think I would be a librarian among scientists much of the time. But thank you all the same, that my curated public-facing self, at least, would be a nice fit.

[paleblinds]

We listened to an Ologies podcast on space debris recently. Fascinating subject.

[nanila]

I had not heard of this podcast before and it looks like loads of fun. Thank you for the recommendation!

[paleblinds]

It's GREAT.

[jesse_the_k]

Listening to synthesized speech does require some adjustment, but the errors are consistent: read will always rhyme with bed, not weed.

Autocraptioning doesn't always make the same mistakes, because humans aren't speaking in sound-proof-boxes.

Does Panopto provide any visual evidence of shifts between speakers?

[nanila]

Does Panopto provide any visual evidence of shifts between speakers?

Huh. I've never done a pre-record with another person, so other than the video feed swapping between speakers, I don't know if the captioning notes a change of speaker. Zoom definitely does with its audio transcripts, but I don't use those because I usually have to cut large chunks of live tutorial recordings when I post them.

[sfred]

Determination, ambition, and mild panic
This feels very familiar.

[nanila]

Yeah, it's pretty continuous right now. I need a proper break at some point, I've been working all the weekends since we came back from the Christmas holidays.

[sfred]

Oof.