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# TCDump: Thought Capture Device Transcriber
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<div style="margin: 6px; color: darkblue; font-size: small; float:left;
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position: relative; max-width: 25%">
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<img src="https://pendorwright.com/lj.g/DJ_TCD.jpg" style="aspect-ratio: 0.785;
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width: 100%" border="0" /><br>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">My current TCD</span></div>
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I have ADHD and I use a small tape recorder to capture all of the ephemeral
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ideas and incidents that happen around me. The OpenAI project recently released
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[Whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper), a speech-to-text engine that has
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surprisingly good recognition even with it's smallest model.
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This script is extremely personal and specific: it effectively transcribes and
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dumps the contents of my tape recorder as text to stdout. That's out. It's
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extremely useful to me, especially in conjunction with the Unix `tee` program.
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If you have a tape recorder that presents as a USB device, you could probably
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just make this work for you by:
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- editing the path to the repository of recordings
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- the regular expression describing the file name convention
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- the strptime format in `converttcdfilename` that turns the filename into a
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human-readable date.
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Note that "Could not find the repo" is an error condition (exit status 1), but
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"No files found in repo" or "No files found meeting your criteria" or "No new
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files found since last transcription" are all exit status 0, matching the Unix
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tradition.
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## LICENSE
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TCDump is Copyright [Elf M. Sternberg](https://elfsternberg.com) (c) 2019, and
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licensed with the Mozilla Public License vers. 2.0. A copy of the license file
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is included in this folder.
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