News You Can Bruise for 2024 March 21

I've updated The Schickele Mix Online Fan Archive with... transcripts! All of the 130-ish episodes archived by fans now include transcripts of Peter Schickele's wisdom and silliness, cross-referenced to the corresponding timestamps on the Internet Archive. Here's a random example: the transcript of Episode 84, "Clarinet Plus".

Some of these transcripts were created by running Whisper on my computer; others I created by paying someone else to run Whisper on their more powerful computer. Now that I've put it all up, one transcript per page, it doesn't seem that impressive, but it's a solid [runs script] 63.80 hours of transcribed text; that's after all the music was filtered out.

I've also updated the dataset with some previously missing information, thanks to Reddit user kiyyik. Remember, if you've got any Schickele Mix recordings, I'll take 'em!

Although the .srt files available for download are the originals as they came out of my/someone else's Whisper process, I wrote some code to tidy up the transcripts for the HTML views. Apart from cleaning up common hallucinations such as transcribing orchestral music as "¶¶" or "Thank you.", I caught and corrected forty different ways to misspell Peter Schickele's name. Here they are:

1. Chicelet
2. Chick-Alee
3. Chick-fil-A
4. Chickalay
5. Chickaly
6. Chickelet
7. Chickley
8. Chickly
9. Chik-fil-A
10. Cicholet
11. Schiccoli
12. Schick-Alee
13. Schickel
14. Schickeli
15. Schickelman
16. Schickely
17. Schickley
18. Schickli
19. Schickly
20. Schiekely
21. Shicabley
22. Shickeley
23. Shickely
24. Shickily
25. Shickley
26. Shickly
27. Shiggly
28. Shigley
29. Shikali
30. Shikely
31. Shikily
32. Shikley
33. Shikoli
34. Shikolik
35. Shinkley
36. Sickily
37. Sickle-ee
38. Sickley
39. Sickly
40. Sickely

Who could forget Captain Picard taking on the Shikolik?