NancyLebovitz comments on Bloggingheads: Robert Wright and Eliezer Yudkowsky - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 August 2010 08:06:03PM 3 points [-]

I'm willing to bet that such software would be very hard to develop.

Requiring 5 second pauses after speaking to allow for thought would be an interesting experiment.

Comment author: ciphergoth 08 August 2010 08:36:49PM 2 points [-]

Could you say more about the difficulties you foresee? I'm guessing that Bloggingheads would have the two separate streams of audio from each microphone, which should make it somewhat easier, but even without that figuring out which speaker is which doesn't seem beyond the realms of what audio processing might be able to do.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 08 August 2010 08:51:48PM 1 point [-]

I may have been overpessimistic. I didn't think about the separate feeds, and you're right about that making things easier.

There might be questions about who has the "right" to be speaking at a given moment-- that would define what constitutes an interruption.

Comment author: ciphergoth 08 August 2010 08:55:33PM 3 points [-]

Need it be more complex than: person A begins to speak while person B is still speaking? It might get a few false positives, but it should be a useful metric overall.

Comment author: timtyler 09 August 2010 08:10:04AM *  0 points [-]

I think people just use standard video-editing software to combine the videos and their audio streams before uploading them.