At present, it is becoming clear in Europe how great the dependence on monopolistic U.S. providers is. These do not see themselves as media publishers and, in this sense, do not want to take responsibility for their role in a democratic discourse process. The predominant business model is the trade […]
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We recently reported on the features of the Cultural Broadcast Archive (CBA). One of the future features of the CBA is to be the transcription of podcasts. This is where Open Audio Search comes into play.The first step is to perform audio transcription via a speech recognition engine. This converts […]
The Cultural Broadcasting Archive (CBA) is a civil society media and communication platform. In addition, CBA is Austria’s largest podcast provider with completely free access. CBA is now to be expanded in the German-speaking region. Datasets and the communityThe focus with the CBA is for the Endnutzer:innen on speed. The […]
Cultural Broadcasting Archive (CBA) is Austrian counterpart to Freie-Radios.Net: Members of the Association of Free Radios Austria (Verband Freier Radios Österreich, VFRÖ) use CBA as an archive of their broadcasts. More than 100,000 audio contributions in about 50 languages from a wide range of topics are available for listening and […]
After decades of old school html look Felix Sperandio, motivated by congress Zukunftswerkstatt Community Media #zwcm2020 has freed Free Radio Net (FRN) from the old layout and catapulted it into the mobile age with the help of bootstrap4. Not enough he pushed the code up to git of the free […]
Programme exchange was the most important motivation for networking among independent radios in the 90th. It’s hard to imagine how that worked without the internet: People sent each other copied lists (yes, photocopiers already existed) by letter. Such a thick envelope contained often handwritten lists descriping library holdings of stations […]