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Atsushi Shimizu
6 min readMar 3, 2021

Today was a good day of puns, March 3, 3rd year of Reiwa, and my day was also good. In the morning, I transcribed while listening to the voice interviewed two days ago. In the previous interview, I was able to do it without problems with two free software, Soundflower and Radiocast, which automatically input Google Docs voice and input / output voice in the PC. Strictly speaking, there was a part that was not transcribed for some reason, but I wrote in my diary about two weeks ago that I was impressed at a level that can be used normally. But this time, for some reason, it didn’t work in the same way. I don’t know the exact cause, but maybe there are some voices that are easy to recognize and some that are difficult to recognize, or if there is a gap between utterances, voice recognition will stop automatically, so leave the voice playing due to that. For some reason, it stopped halfway.

I wondered what happened, and when I searched the internet, I found that there was a way to listen to the voice with earphones and let the microphone repeatedly recognize the same content. With this method, you can’t do anything else during automatic voice input like last time, but there were many good things instead. First of all, it’s like shadowing that you can utter the voices of two people by yourself, and the voice recognition is very smooth. When I looked it up, it seems that the difference in voice quality and volume also affects the accuracy of voice recognition considerably, so the method I did this time recognized the voice with fairly high accuracy. The other is that when you utter the voice you hear without repeating it, you can rephrase it briefly and adjust it so that it is easy to understand when you look at it later. You can also press enter to separate paragraphs between the interviewee and your utterance. As a result, I feel that it will be easier to do it this way later, so I feel that there are still improvements in the article writing workflow from the transcription of the interview.

For the time being, I transcribed this way in the morning and it ended around 11 o’clock. From the afternoon, I ate an early lunch to try to correct paragraph breaks and terrible typographical errors in order to write articles from transcription. Recently, there are many udon noodles for lunch because they are cheap and easy to make and wash. It’s okay at all, but I don’t care too much about food in my life right now, so I think I should be more aware of my health.

After having lunch, I decided to work with books. It’s the last ticket that allows you to use the lounge space for free for 3 hours, so when today is over, you can’t use it unless you buy a book in bulk and get a ticket. It’s quite comfortable and the work progresses, but it’s still difficult to become a monthly member with the current income. About half of the transcription adjustment work was completed in 3 hours, but the first thing I thought about was that it was a waste to spend too much time here. Transcription has small typographical errors, and there are many grammatical mistakes, so if you look closely, you will want to correct them. However, the actual usage of transcription is to re-listen to the ambiguous part of the memory when writing an article, and transcription is used to identify the playback position and check the context before and after. There is. So, even if the details are wrong, there is no problem. So, I used half of it for 3 hours today, but even if I’m worried about typographical errors, it’s best to do it as quickly as possible without touching it, just note the playback position and divide the paragraphs. I thought again. I’ll finish the other half tomorrow morning, but I’d like to do it in less time than today.

When I stood for 3 hours, the time was past 15:00, and there was still a little time from 17:00 to the beauty salon I had reserved. So, I decided to go to a coffee shop near the hairdresser and continue working while drinking coffee, but unexpectedly there was no coffee shop nearby. There was a brand new coworking space that I didn’t recognize when I was wandering around the shopping street because it was closed or it was difficult to work with the iPad spread out. The beauty salon I go to has been the same since I came to Fukuoka, and there was a university dormitory where I originally lived near the beauty salon, so I used to go to this shopping street a lot. It was easy for 500 yen for 2 hours, so when I entered, it was said that there was no one inside but it could be used. It was just completed in the middle of last month and now it feels like a pre-opening, so he told me that 2 hours is free. Thank you. The coat color is a little different from the so-called coworking space in the office district in the city, and it seems to be mainly for the child-rearing generation such as those who are on childcare leave and housewives, and there is a space where children can be left, nursery teachers Seems to take care of me. Speaking of coworking space, it is really important to meet and connect with business people in a place where businessmen of the working generation are working hard! I imagined something like that, but it was a little more cozy and nice.

I didn’t have much time, so I couldn’t continue the work, so I went to the hairdressing shop at 17:00. As usual, I told him the ideal state I thought, and left it to Mr. K. Mr. K is a nice person who has cut me since I first went. I can’t say whether the technique is good or not because I don’t have such a clear commitment to the hairstyle in the first place, but at least you can cut it with the greatest peace of mind. However, what I was told today is that my order is insanely difficult every time. It’s not that it’s technically hard, and I’m not good at communicating it, but I think it’s probably because it’s just an explanation in words and I don’t have a concrete shape or image of a hairstyle. My hair has grown a lot today, so I was planning to have my hair cut and consult with me before applying a perm. As a result, I got it, but my request at that time was “I didn’t perm my hair after walking for a while without an umbrella in the rain, but it looks like it was permed. Please perm loosely with a feeling. “ This explanation depends on the hair quality in the first place, and only those who understand the wet hair can understand it, but as a result, it was finished in a good feeling. In short, I applied the perm openly! I wanted it to be invisible, so I think it was achieved enough.

The cut was only on the tips of the hair, and the request was for a loose perm, so it ended immediately, and it ended much earlier than expected. After going home and eating, I attended an open conference at zoom. The event was organized by the founding members of the technical college, which will be newly established in 2023 for the first time in about 20 years. The first half is a discussion of the speakers, and the second half is divided into several participants for “future education”. It was about exchanging opinions about. I’m from a technical college, so when I learned about the new technical college on SNS, I immediately followed up and registered an e-mail newsletter, and participated in this event. I can talk about technical colleges as much as I want, so I will stop here, but I thought that the new technical colleges I was trying to make were really attractive. It wasn’t made from the top down, but at an event like today, we actively gathered opinions from various people and updated it with new ones, and I was really looking forward to 2023. ..

It’s almost like this today.

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