<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Glad to hear it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I did do some back up recording, but not all. Just in case someone for got to hit record. But I think Henok was on the ball.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If you do a YouTube Channel I could certainly help you with some legacy events. The last few are on the Internet archive. <a href="https://archive.org/details/@isoc_live?query=afpif">https://archive.org/details/@isoc_live?query=afpif</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">One can just sit with a hand on the mute button, but it seems to me, subjectively perhaps, that YT has been less savage with takedowns on livestreams, and just muting on recordings. I could be wrong.<br><br>At the same time as AfPIF I actually did simulcast the CIGF out of Cuba, and the AV team there actually constructed their own tune for interstitials, using the Suno app. <a href="https://suno.com/">https://suno.com/</a><br><br>You can hear it here. <a href="https://youtu.be/XVvhrk7_m7Q?list=PL9-4wsDIxlCCQrl7QjVvm29vY7jyL3Oru">https://youtu.be/XVvhrk7_m7Q?list=PL9-4wsDIxlCCQrl7QjVvm29vY7jyL3Oru</a> - it reminded of the thing Henok always used to play, which I got thoroughly sick of :)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My own archiving workflow now includes AI transcription, summarization, and translated captions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">=================</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">1) Index sessions with speaker info. Make title frames for each session , and one end frame for all.<br><br>Then, for each session</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">2) Doing a quick edit on the video, mainly trim, possibly cropping and split screening with slides, add title and end frames, and the blank skinny 'lower third' at the bottpm.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">3) Running that through Whisper Large V3 with a beam of 15 - and convert to English. Pretty accurate although GIGO. This is remarkably good at identifying speakers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">4) Reformatting that transcript in Claude (custom prompt) for smooth flow.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">5) Inputting the video to Descript, and then importing that transcript.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Then in Descript</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">6) checking and fixing that (This is the laborious bit)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">8) Enhance audio a bit and remove dead air and some filler words etc..Add a 'speaker name' text field, which auto adds the name of whoever's speaking.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">9) Run AI translation, usually ES/ FR but PT is available </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">10) Export as mp4, wav, docX (EN), and srt (EN/FR)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">11) In MS Word, reformat the DocX and add title frame (smaller jpg), and export to 'EN.TRANSCRIPT' docX and pdf.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">12) Run the EN.TRANSCRIPT docX through ChatGPT (speaker by speaker topic by topic) for a summary.<br><br>13) Replace transcript with that and save as EN.SUMMARY.<br><br>14) Upload mp4, wav, pdf, title frame to Internet Archive (converts audio to mp3, pdf to ePub).+ lides if available.<br><br>15) Upload mp4 to YouTube, add description + links to transcript and summary, + EN / FR subtitles.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">when all are done<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">16) Post index with links to all files and Internet Archive embed on <a href="https://isoc.live">https://isoc.live</a> = PERMALINK.<br><br>===============================</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">You can see this work in progress on the CIGF - <a href="https://archive.org/details/cigf2025">https://archive.org/details/cigf2025</a> <br><br>I realize this all is likely well beyond your capacity, but there's always a chance it could be used as a guidene for any volunteer help you might have.<br><br>What I am seeing is the AI summaries can be highly useful, especially for the TL;DR crowd. and they can be created with out going through the entire editing process. Just putting the audio through the Whisper > Claude > ChatGPT process. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Note 1) Whisper, at that level is way more accurate than the Otter built in to Zoom. but 2) Whisper outputs barely formatted text, so that's why you need Claude (ChaptGPT insists on hallucinating when reformatting, Claude can be constrained) DeepSeek also works, but a) overworked servers b) Chinese). 3) However ChatGPT does better at summarizing than Claude, Claude likes to make flowery prose, whereas ChatGPT will do terse analysis.<br><br>I have a portable x64 version of Whisper I can share. Both Cluse and ChatGPT require accounts if one is doing any volume (as does Descript).<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Content in Descript can easily be repurposed to Instagram reels etc.<br><br>HTH</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Joly</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM Kyle Spencer <<a href="mailto:kyle@stormzero.com">kyle@stormzero.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Joly,</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for the delayed reply on this. We were in the heat of AfPIF planning.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for the guidance. We followed a very similar strategy for the content recording. We're hoping to launch a YouTube channel soon so that people can easily re-watch the talks.</div><div><br></div><div>One thing I think will be important going forward is to ensure that all music played at the conference is Creative Commons so that we don't get hit with any copyright strikes.<br><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Kyle Spencer</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:jolynyc@gmail.com" target="_blank">jolynyc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks for response, Kyle.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If you can, get a good back up recording! And remember,;ultimately it's just the audio that matters. Even a phone on the podium recording mp3 can be a lifesaver.<br><br>If running Zoom I will suggest is that you do a good cloud recording, according to my recommended settings <br><ul><li><p><strong>Enable “Record active speaker, gallery view, and shared screen separately”</strong> –</p></li></ul>
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<p>I advise downloading all and clearing storage at the end of each day so you don't go over quota.</p><p><br></p><p>Joly</p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM Kyle Spencer <<a href="mailto:kyle@stormzero.com" target="_blank">kyle@stormzero.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi Joly,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sorry we didn't reply earlier. This got lost in the jumble of event planning.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We have a very tight budget this year (we're actually running a deficit) due to the scale of the event and a variety of other factors, so we just don't have the money to do this.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hopefully next year the story will be different and we can engage you for these services.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards,</div><div dir="auto">Kyle Spencer</div><div><br></div><div><br>--<br>Cell / WhatsApp / Signal: +256786350675</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 11 Aug 2025, 10:43 Joly MacFie, <<a href="mailto:jolynyc@gmail.com" target="_blank">jolynyc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Just following up. Since I have heard nothing, I assume my services are not required.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If there is any similar effort to properly publish and archive AfPIF 2025 planned, please let me know and I will publicize.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Joly.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:jolynyc@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">jolynyc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Kyle, Gaelle, all.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">As you may know, I have simulcast and archived AfPIF every year since 2013.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://isoc.live/?s=AfPIF" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://isoc.live/?s=AfPIF</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This was previously funded by the Internet Society. After they withdrew funding for ISOC.LIVE last year, Vint Cerf personally covered a further few months out of his own pocket, just covering AfPIF 2024, and I was able to also include EN/FR captions nd transcripts of all sessions. <a href="https://isoc.live/18269/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://isoc.live/18269/</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">This year, however, I am currently without funding to continue the tradition.</div><br clear="all"></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">It is possible an ISOC Chapter Chapter could apply for a "Beyond The Net' grant to cover, but there is an 8 week lead time for such, so time grows short.<br><br>Another option could be a sponsor, and they could be promised to have their name on screen at all times</div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I would price it at $1k/day. I have added AI summaries to my workflow. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Any thoughts?<br><br>J</div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><br></div><div>Joly MacFie<br>Whatsapp +12185659365</div></div></div></div>
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