What Changed When I Made the Recordings Searchable
A pile of audio is a black box. You know the teacher said something about a certain verse. You can almost hear it. But it’s somewhere inside hundreds of hours of recordings, in one lecture out of hundreds, at a point you can’t remember. Without a way to search, those recordings are write-only: you can keep adding to them, but you can never really get anything back out. The bigger the collection grows, the more it buries. ...