Earlier this year in collaboration with the Internet Archive, we made available in the Visual Explorer the complete 1982-2002 archive of the phenomenal television series Computer Chronicles, hosted by Stewart Cheifet and chronicling two formative decades of the rise of personal computing from early adopters to the global public. To explore how modern speech transcription technology can be used to make historical television broadcasts from past decades searchable, we have applied Google's Chirp ASR to the complete archive. It is fascinating to explore how it handles technical terminology from decades past. Take a look by viewing any of the broadcasts in the Visual Explorer.
While Chirp was instructed to assume all broadcasts were in English, it seamlessly transcribed this Spanish language broadcast.