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Transcript processing from STT services to standardized formats.
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Question: Why the dependency on java? #14

Closed pietrop closed 5 years ago

pietrop commented 5 years ago

Hello, This seems like a great and much needed initiative, I was wondering why the dependency on java?

For context, we've been working on an open source transcript editor @bbc/react-transcript-editor (see demo click load demo) which has converters for various STT services (including Speechmatics, Gentle, etc..) into the draftJs json data structure.

And this could potentially be a good approach to simplify the scaling to new providers etc..

zevaverbach commented 5 years ago

@pietrop really cool project, thanks for pointing it out! The only reason for Java here is to use the Stanford NER, which itself is only needed for deciding whether a word is a proper noun. Do you have any suggestions for a different approach?

zevaverbach commented 5 years ago

answering my own question here: #16 will eliminate the Java dependency