"The Speakularity"
Over at the Nieman Journalism Lab, NPR’s Matt Thompson predicts a massive moment in our future: “The Speakularity.” Thompson writes,
At some point in the near future, automatic speech transcription will become fast, free, and decent. And this moment — let’s call it the Speakularity — will be a watershed moment for journalism.
After this moment phone conversations, press conferences, meetings, and other events will be instantly documented in an indexable manner allowing journalists and the curious to find links with ease. Voices and events that once would have been forgotten would be dredged daily as stories are assembled.
Call it Gotcha-Journalism, call it storytelling-by-Google. Click through for the whole piece. It’s really solid thinking.
