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2025

Inspired by this conversation on Hacker News I decided to upgrade MacWhisper to try out NVIDIA Parakeet and the new Automatic Speaker Recognition feature.

It appears to work really well! Here's the result against this 39.7MB m4a file from my Gemini 3 Pro write-up this morning:

A screenshot of the MacWhisper transcription application interface displaying a file named "HMB_compressed." The center panel shows a transcript of a City Council meeting. Speaker 2 begins, "Thank you, Mr. Mayor, uh City Council... Victor Hernandez, Spanish interpreter," followed by Spanish instructions: "Buenas noches, les queremos dejar saber a todos ustedes que pueden acceder lo que es el canal de Zoom..." Speaker 1 responds, "Thank you. Appreciate that. Can we please have a roll call?" Speaker 3 then calls out "Councilmember Johnson?" and "Councilmember Nagengast?" to which Speaker 1 answers, "Here." The interface includes metadata on the right indicating the model "Parakeet v3" and a total word count of 26,109.

You can export the transcript with both timestamps and speaker names using the Share -> Segments > .json menu item:

A close-up of the MacWhisper interface showing the export dropdown menu with "Segments" selected. A secondary menu lists various file formats including .txt, .csv, and .pdf, with a red arrow pointing specifically to the ".json" option, set against the background of the meeting transcript.

Here's the resulting JSON.

# 18th November 2025, 10:19 pm / whisper, nvidia, ai, speech-to-text, macwhisper

Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation

Visit Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation

I was interviewed by News Nation’s Natasha Zouves about the very complicated topic of how we should think about AI in terms of threatening our jobs and careers. I previously talked with Natasha two years ago about Microsoft Bing.

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1:45 pm / 30th May 2025 / interviews, speaking, my-talks, ai, generative-ai, llms, podcast-appearances, ai-ethics, claude-4, macwhisper

2024

AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff right now

Visit AI for Data Journalism: demonstrating what we can do with this stuff right now

I gave a talk last month at the Story Discovery at Scale data journalism conference hosted at Stanford by Big Local News. My brief was to go deep into the things we can use Large Language Models for right now, illustrated by a flurry of demos to help provide starting points for further conversations at the conference.

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9:04 pm / 17th April 2024 / data-journalism, journalism, projects, my-talks, ai, datasette, datasette-cloud, generative-ai, llms, llm, annotated-talks, code-interpreter, enrichments, vision-llms, structured-extraction, coding-agents, macwhisper

2023

Weeknotes: NICAR, and an appearance on KQED Forum

I spent most of this week at NICAR 2023, the data journalism conference hosted this year in Nashville, Tennessee.

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10:46 pm / 7th March 2023 / bing, data-journalism, media, radio, ai, weeknotes, generative-ai, chatgpt, whisper, llms, nicar, podcast-appearances, macwhisper

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