Offer to help with transcripts of Seattle 2025 ATmosphereConf

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Hi there, this is my first post here and hope I put it in the right place. :slight_smile:

I’m a big fan of ATProto, been following developments for a while and so when I saw on Bluesky that transcripts were being worked on for last year’s conf, I posted an offer to help make the 2025 conference transcripts interactive using an open source library I’ve been developing.

Advantages of interactive transcripts include:

  • Easier to navigate to points of interest
  • Easier to share excerpts of a talk
  • Easier to process the transcript as it highlights in time with audio/video (think karaoke :slight_smile: )

I’m a media technologist who works on various open source projects. I’ve worked with Mozilla and wrangled the decentralisation space at the Mozilla Festival a few years ago.

I was asked to introduce myself on this forum, so we can chat about it, so here I am :slight_smile:

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Thanks for dropping in @maboa.bsky.social!

We’re keeping it pretty simple and just grabbing transcripts from YouTube and posting them to our leaflet.

@lucca.northsky.team is doing that work, as part of the conference producers team.

We also have the source video from AHOY and ATProto NYC that we haven’t processed yet.

Given source video in YouTube and some unposted in GDrive, and the fact that we embed in Leaflet, can you suggest how to put these pieces together?

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I think the main issue is Leaflet. The library (Hyperaudio Lite) is written in JavaScript so fairly portable. It does have integrations for YouTube if you are embedding that as the player.

Let me test whether it can be used with Leaflet embeddings and get back to you.

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Leaflet doesn’t currently support arbitrary HTML. But @schlage.town @awarm.space might be convinced to add support.

@maboa.bsky.social this might be something we can add to the 2026 conference website, and in fact, retro-actively make it the archive for talks and events. Happy to walk through that and accept a PR to experiment with this but also in crunch time for the conference.

Are you planning on joining us in Vancouver? In any case, once the conference website is up, I can come back and point at the source code and we can do some experiments.

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Thanks for the info @bmann.ca Happy to experiment with Leaflet integration. I’m not going to make it to Vancouver unfortunately, but feel free to give me a shout once the conference website is up :slight_smile:

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I know @iame.li & @natalie.sh have been working on transciption of streams

so if there was

  1. people that could contribute code to that effort
  2. people that could work on making that transciption publish to a https://standard.site/ schema
  3. tag in https://standard.site/ websites to slupr that data up and auto-pot transcriptions

that could not only show some amazing interoperability but also increase the accessibility for people. could even let some localization contributors take a shot at proper translations

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