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Television News Visual Explorer: Continual Ongoing ASR Now Live

We are excited to announce today that continual ongoing ASR of the entire TV News Archive is now live! As…

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Television News Visual Explorer: ASR Of All Uncaptioned Broadcasts 2001-Present Complete

We are excited today to announce that we have completed machine transcription of every single uncaptioned broadcast in the entire…

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Behind The Scenes: Detecting Broadcasts Missing Audio Streams & The Inadvertent Challenges Of Improved Resilience

Our longstanding ASR workflow was based on a submit-once model in which each broadcast needing transcription was submitted a single…

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Behind The Scenes: Speeding GCS Inventories By 10X By Dropping Wildcards

A key part of our ASR pipeline involves determining which of the inflight broadcasts has completed processing through GCP Chirp….

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Death Of A Unicorn & Why Search Quality Is The Make-Or-Break Centerpiece Of The AI Era

Last night I went to AMC's early access screening of Death of a Unicorn (WARNING: spoilers below) and had some…

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Behind The Scenes: The Strange Case Of An Unhappy Service Account & The Unique Complexities Of AI Infrastructure

Modern cloud-based computing infrastructure has grown so reliable over the years that even larger-scale workflows rarely encounter error rates sufficiently…

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Behind The Scenes: Scaling From Proof Of Concept To Realtime Production To Archive Scale Retrospective

Migrating a new idea from proof of concept one-off experiments powered by a hodgepodge of scripts, notebooks and cobbled-together tools…

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Television News Visual Explorer: Thumbnail Montage Generation Now Updating

We're excited to announce that we have completed generating our Visual Explorer 1/4fps thumbnail montages for the October 2024 –…

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Talking To GDELT Through Knowledge Graphs

An interesting paper by researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL): In this work we study various Retrieval Augmented Regeneration…

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Television News Visual Explorer: TTXT Captioning Mode Annotations Now Updating

We're excited to announce that our TTXT captioning mode annotation files are now being continually updated for all captioned broadcasts…

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Behind The Scenes: Identifying Failed Recordings: Why Traditional Video Verification Tools Fail

This past December we explored a range of approaches for detecting failed and corrupted television news recordings, from curation metadata…

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Television News Visual Explorer: October 2024 – Present + Ongoing Updates: Phase 1

We're excited to announce that in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we have completed initial processing of…

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WashPost: The Right-Wing Media Machine Is Hitting A Wall

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines media coverage of Trump. Read The Full Article.

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Snopes: Drone Video Truly Shows NYC Protest Against Trump And Musk

Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about a New York City protest. Read The…

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Snopes: Unfounded Rumor Claims Pete Hegseth Drank Alcohol During NATO News Conference

Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about Pete Hegseth. Read The Full Article.

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Behind The Scenes: Launching A New Autohealing Unified Health Infrastructure

We are excited today to announce the launch of our new automatic monitoring and healing unified health infrastructure that underpins…

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Snopes: Fact Check: Trump WH Falsely Claimed USAID Funded 'Transgender Comic Book' In Peru

Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about USAID funding. Read The Full Article.

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Snopes: Yes, Trump Rebuked Obama in 2012 for 'Constantly Issuing Executive Orders'

Snopes uses the TV News Archive in its fact check of claims about Trump and executive orders. Read The Full…

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Behind The Scenes: A First Glimpse At ASR Statistics From 2.5 Million Hours Of Global TV News Spanning 50 Countries & A Quarter Century

Last year we announced the successful completion of Large Speech Model (LSM)-powered ASR over the totality of the uncaptioned Television…

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Behind The Scenes: A Look At 16 Years Of Advertising Density On Television News

We are tremendously excited to announce today the completion of our analysis of captioning mode information across the totality of…

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Vox: Why Some Immigrants Want Fewer Immigrants

A Vox look at immigration. Read The Full Article.

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Behind The Scenes: 1.9 Million Hours & 13.8 Billion Words Of Closed Captioning Spanning 17 Years Of Television News

Yesterday we previewed some initial statistics from our work identifying and removing advertisements from closed captioning transcripts across the TV…

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Behind The Scenes: Some Initial Archive-Scale Closed Captioning Statistics

Only a portion of the TV News Archive's broadcasts contain broadcaster-provided closed captioning, but by virtue of being largely human-transcribed…

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PolitiFact: Early Reports of Four Survivors Show “This DC Plane Crash Story Isn’t Adding Up.”

A PolitiFact look at the plane crash in DC. Read The Full Article.