Seminar: Virtual Attendance

Kix

Perhaps this has already been discussed and I missed it, but has there been any thought given to perhaps offering virtual attendance to the seminar to those who can't show up in person? An IRC channel perhaps? The extra people could help show the true level of support. Just an idea.

K

LegacyUser

It is something I had considered, but it would mean a dedicated typist entering in all the discussions and also a phone connection from 4pm to 7pm.

dahamsta

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">and also a phone connection from 4pm to 7pm.</font>

LOL. We can't afford it.

adam

Bard

An option to attend "virtually" could potentially lessen our numbers at the "live" part of the event, and it would be costly and time consuming, so while it's not really a bad idea as such, I don't really see it as a goer, to be honest - especially at this late stage.

For those of you who can't make it, we'll have a full update posted to the website as soon as possible (not tomorrow night unfortunately, as I'm working then), and we'll hopefully have full media coverage also.

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Kix

Righty-ho.

Pity no one's married to a stenographer.

K

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bard:

For those of you who can't make it, we'll have a full update posted to the website as soon as possible (not tomorrow night unfortunately, as I'm working then), and we'll hopefully have full media coverage also.
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Any chance of making a RealAudio file of the proceedings and posting it? Unfortunately, I cannot be in Dublin for the event.

Regards...jmcc

Bard

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by jmcc:
Any chance of making a RealAudio file of the proceedings and posting it? Unfortunately, I cannot be in Dublin for the event.

Regards...jmcc</font>

That's definitely a possibility

I'll see what I can do re: recording it and editing and encoding it for download.

Cheers for the suggestion,

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LegacyUser

The audio thing is a great idea !!

BTW, Does anyone know if we've definitley got any camera crew coming. I got a mail from Elana this morning but she didn't mention it. If anyones got a good camcorder, barring RTE / TV3 sending someone, it may be a good idea to film it ourselves. We could then extract Audio from that or post parts of the video as a real media ??

Any suggestions ??

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Bard

tv3 have it on their 'potential story' list, and it's going to be discussed by them in their news team meeting today. They may or may not yet have a camera & reporter at the seminar - if they do, it would probably be an exclusive for them - a one-up over RTÉ.

It's a 3 hour event... dunno about making *all* that available as downloadable real-audio... will probably put the most important bits up (if I can sort out doing it at all, that is...)

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LegacyUser

Lets hope its a quite day in terms of news.

TELL your friends and family to stay @ home & not to get into any 10 car pile-ups on the M50...rite

Oh actually 1st tell them to go Seminar!!
They can pay in & then retire to Alfie Byrnes for a few lemonades!!

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LegacyUser

If you want to gimme a copy of the tapes I'll transcribe some/all of it.

Is there a PA system being used.. if so, we could take a line feed from it to a tape recorder or a PC



[This message has been edited by Fergus (edited 28-08-2001).]

LegacyUser

Anyone got IBM's Via Voice Pro- That could be handy??

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LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Fergus:
Is there a PA system being used.. if so, we could take a line feed from it to a tape recorder or a PC</font>

Yes there will be a PA system, will have to check about line to tape recorder

Martin

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by 80project.com:
Anyone got IBM's Via Voice Pro- That could be handy??</font>

VIA Voice struggles with my Northern accent on my own PC which I have 'trained' - hate to think what sort of misquotes we would get at an event like this

Martin

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by o_donnel_abu:
VIA Voice struggles with my Northern accent on my own PC which I have 'trained' - hate to think what sort of misquotes we would get at an event like this

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Last demo of it I remember it came up with references to the IRA and lesbians

LegacyUser

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by o_donnel_abu:
hate to think what sort of misquotes we would get at an event like this

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Wot something along the lines of....

€ircom: We're introducing braodband to the whole of Ireland, no caps- £15 p/m

Audience turn to each other:Did I hear that correctly ??

Oh if only it could be true

I've heard bad things about Via Voice Pro actually. There's supposed to be ag ood alternative- cant think of it right now- but I saw it in the Voice Recognition Software section on Amazon. Might worth a look if your struggling Martin

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dahamsta

I've never used 'em, but Dragon Naturally Speaking seems to get consistently good reviews.

http://www.dragonsys.com/

adam

sceptre

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by dahamsta:
I've never used 'em, but Dragon Naturally Speaking seems to get consistently good reviews.
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I've been using Dragon for a few years (now finally got version 5 and I do quite like it. (only have Standard version 5 though, I half-miss the pro version of 4. I do need to read rather clearly though (read in a "rather clear" voice) so using anything like this without training for the seminar is a non-runner.