Transcribing Breeding Info from Video/Audio sources

Ok, here we go! Nearly 50 episodes of The Pot Cast transcriptions just went up at: canna-transcripts/The Pot Cast at main · muf4/canna-transcripts · GitHub

Pending eps 6-9, 51-83. I am unable to find eps 14, 29, 45 - anyone know if these even exist?

What other content should I transcribe? I am eyeing Shango Los’ Shaping Fire and Future Cannabis Project has some really good breeding/growing talks as well. The most convenient format of grabbing the content to transcribe is via YouTube playlists so if anyone has some good ones on hand, please share!

Update: eps 1-72 up, pending 73-83

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Youngsang Cho 2023 JADAM lecture tour in the US:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLba0q5T16c0VFr272n7yCtiR8QcnSgviS

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Ooh these are new to me, really awesome stuff in here. Added to pending requests! I’ll get this started after I finish up the last batch of Pot Casts.

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These are up!
Some notes though:

  • The Korean audio translation actually went well but I did notice some repeated phrases that don’t quite match up the YT subtitles. There are tools out there to rip the subtitles directly off videos but I don’t want to make exceptions for the overall workflow if it can be avoided. Let me know how they look to you. Basically its a difference of this transcription being the direct translation of the audio vs the manually written subtitles they included in those korean audio videos.
  • In the english voiceover videos, the korean phrases included are not properly translated since this tool doesn’t seem to be able to handle multiple languages. I guess since it can only deal with one language model at a time.
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Thanks dude! I’ll look around for some other interesting and more obscure playlists for this project, I love it!

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Some more requests please

DocCalyx podcast:

https://m.youtube.com/@CalyxCrewPodcast/playlists

Matt Riot’s Breeders Syndicate:

https://m.youtube.com/@BreedersSyndicate/playlists

An incredible archive of historical interviews including Jack Herer, Denis Peron and more:

https://m.youtube.com/@RestoreHemp/videos

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Sweet suggestions! Breeder’s Syndicate was on my wishlist as well. Will try to get some of these over the weekend. Cheers!

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Thank you! I’m so glad someone finally did this!

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Just put up about a third of Breeder’s Syndicate. I did catch one that got bugged and just printed “I” for about half the text but it was fine when I re-ran it. If you come across anything weird like that, let me know!

One thing that’s dawning on me now is that this is kind of creating a new problem :laughing: Now we need another AI to help summarize all this text. Maybe there will be enough source material to train one of the language models like GPT so we can have it answer breeding questions :thinking:

Also, updated about 10% of what I grabbed from Future Cannabis Project that showed up under “breeding” or “seeds”. There is still so much pending, these guys put out a ton of content. I tried to prune some of it down to avoid the scheduled talk shows unless the title explicitly mentioned a breeder or something breeding related.

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Shaping Fire and Breeder’s Syndicate fully up, Doc Calyx and RestoreHemp archive next on the list :muscle:

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The remaining ones requested here are up!

Still working through Future Cannabis Project. Not super sure where to go next after those. There are great talks from educational or more science-focused sources. However, they usually go along with nice presentation slides which would be lost or are themselves summaries of actual scientific papers so kind of redundant to transcribe.

Definitely open to more ideas or requests :thinking:

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Another batch of FCP in, total at 360, with another 180 to go from what I’ve grabbed. Starting to look into feeding this text into a language model or some sort of analyzer. Mainly to extract summaries or maybe make some sort of Q&A chatbot. No promises though as I am definitely out of my depth, but having fun learning.

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Here’s some neat stuff @Northern_Loki found from Cornell:

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Cornell SIPS is definitely on the list, same as Apogee/Dr. Bugbee stuff - going next on the list. Also, I appreciate the cross-promotion, I see you :face_with_monocle:

“Last” of FCP going up. There’s still plenty left but ~550 is enough for now. I am checking downloads against an archive so in theory I shouldn’t have duplicates when I go get another batch later.

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These really go by quicker than I expect. Cornell SIPS and Apogee transcripts up. Kept only the ones most related to growing/breeding for each.

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Thinking of doing another round of transcriptions to catch up on episodes from already transcribed series. Any suggestions for additions?

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Maybe some Mechoulam interviews or presentations?

This looks like good stuff too:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY7VMskICYhwGdVzs19ngXDBynfW3VlPu

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Thanks a lot for this great effort @mufafa ! I appreciate it a lot.

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So cool and a great idea. Thanks man! :pray::call_me_hand::clap:

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Got an interesting one for you!

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