I'm getting there!

Today I passed a big milestone: I completed transcribing *all* 282,408 audio notes from my weekly biodiversity runs, which I started back in July 2008. Woot!

Now I'm into finishing off my notes from my daily bike rides to work (a route I started recording 20-years ago in March 2003.)

It's all coming together. I'm getting excited about finally pulling together the trends to show everyone, and sharing my cleaned data.

#EcologicalMonitoring #wildcounts #AWSTranscribe

I should add that, despite some amusing errors, #AWSTranscribe is remarkably good, when trained with an already-transcribed training set. Here's a field note (from 29 Oct. at 3:57 PM at -43.566067 172.620424), which AWS correctly transcribed as "Senecio glomeratus left close one flower buds only clean usual photo with Mexican daisy left close two photo and also dunnock song then seen left near-in behind one photo". Yey for computers!

"I believe. Toadflax." I've spent much of my day editing transcriptions from #AWSTranscribe, as part of my ongoing mission to monitor changes in #nature around me. In the past two weeks, I've seen a "pretty tractor" (Sophora tetraptera), a "house Baron" (house sparrow), a "Prescott. All the ratio" (Brassica oleracea), some "Quarterly navicular artists" (Cotyledon orbiculatus), and a fern "growing empathetically" (growing epiphytically). Plus, I believe, an ivy-leaved toadflax. #wildcounts