Tech
Products and prototypes I've worked on over the years. Mix of personal projects and things I've done while working for larger companies. Majority are open source but unfortunately some are not. They are mostly in two categories, productivity tools and new story formats.
WSJ Chat Bot
WSJ2021 Apr 12
An investigation in the use of chat bots to re-surface and boost traffic to evergreen content to readers.
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Multimedia Annotated Transcript
WSJ2021 Feb 09
A new annotated interactive transcription story format. Clicking on a word jumps to the corresponding point in the video.
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Live transcriber tool - POC
WSJ2020 Dec 10
A technical exploration and proof of concept for a live transcriber tool
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Podcast Transcription authoring tool
WSJ2020 Oct 10
An authoring tool to create transcriptions of podcasts, leveraging automated speech to text services.
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Slate Transcript Editor
Open Source2020 Apr 24
A React component to correct automated transcriptions from STT services. From lessons learned while making BBC React Transcript Editor.
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Digital Paper Edit
BBC Open Source2019 Mar 22
An open source application to make it faster, easier and more accessible to edit audio and video interviews using automatically generated transcriptions form STT service.
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Narrative Text
BBC2019 Jan 20
Making narrative text in social videos accessible to screen readers
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React Transcript Editor
BBC Open Source2018 Dec 04
An open source React component to make correcting automated transcriptions of audio and video easier and faster
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BBC AMP Stories
BBC2018 Jun 17
A lightweight system for BBC Journalist to publish AMP Stories
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Subtitles Composer App
Open Source2018 Apr 02
Create and auto segment captions from plain text via auto alignment.
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World Service, Crossing Divides
BBC2018 Mar 15
A new interactive story format for BBC World Service
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BBC #newsHack '17 `@TranscriptionBot`
Open Source2017 Oct 26
Proof of concept demo of chatbot conversational interface for transcription service.
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Fact2 Transcriptions Text Editor
Fact2 Open Source2017 Oct 11
Largely inspired by oTranscribe a client side transcriptions text editor for Fact2's proofreaders to correct automatically generated text from speech to text services
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Opened Captions Annotated article system
Vox, Open News Open Source2017 Jul 24
A rig to make an annotated article leveraging live tv captions, like NPR & Vox.
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Captioning app [Working Title]
Open Source2017 Jul 24
Turbo charge the captioning workflow using automated transcription, punctuation, alignement and segmentation.
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Electron Video Downloader
Open Source2017 Jun 08
A minimal Electron application to download videos, eg from youtube, and associated captions (optional). Uses youtube-dl under the hood.
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Whistleblower Interview Archive
Open Source2017 Feb 20
A proof of concept for an interactive site for the Whistle Blower interview archive by Niels Ladefoged
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Annotated Transcript
Vox Open Source2017 Jan 20
A new annotated transcription based story format.
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POV Hackaton: 'Battle Sound'
Open Source2016 Sep 25
POV Hackaton NYC 24th Sept 2016, Battle Sound team. Interactive Documentary.
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Transcriber - prototype
Vox Open Source2016 Sep 01
Prototype to test quality of STT with users before introducing autoEdit2
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Vax project 2016 - IDA, Rethinking Visual Narratives
Vox Open Source2016 Jul 13
A proof concept built at Vax hackaton
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Volume folder report generator
Vox Open Source2016 Jun 08
Os X nwjs app, tha runs a ruby script to generate a report for missing media files on a video server
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Captions Burner
Vox Open Source2016 Jun 02
Mac os x desktop app that given a srt and a video burns the captions onto the video. Can also export as gif.
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quickQuote - Times & Sunday Times
Times & Sunday Times Open Source2015 Jul 21
A tool for journalists to easily find and add video quotes to news articles
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OneStory at BBC #newsHack
Times & Sunday Times2015 Jun 04
at #EditorsLab BBC #newsHack hackaton
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Interactive databate #buildTheNews
Times & Sunday Times2015 Apr 29
at Times and Sunday Times #buildTheNews hackaton
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autoEdit, digital paper-editing
Open Source2015 Apr 15
V1 of autoEdit, an app for fast text based editing of video interviews
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.sbv to .csv
Open Source2013 Dec 02
Convert youtube generate captions into csv for google spreadsheat paper-editing
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Turning viewers into users #popathon
Open Source2013 May 12
Won best proptotype at Mozilla #popathon hackaton
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