[Tools-discuss] Re: Session audio recording

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM Watson Ladd <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 5, 2025, 2:38 PM Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM Rob Sayre <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>>> On 11/5/25 1:02 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>>> > Is there a straightforward way to just get the audio recording for a
>>> > given session?
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>>> Hi,
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>>> It's a fair question--sometimes they have had links for that from
>>> MeetEcho, but this time around it seems like there are no mp3 files,
>>> only YouTube and Cloudflare video (which confusingly looks like
>>> SoundCloud?).
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>>> These should be on BitTorrent, but in practice it doesn't matter.
>>> YouTube works fine and the video overhead isn't too bad because it's
>>> just slides that don't really change most of the time over each frame,
>>> and you need to show the "Note Well" without wasting everyone's time by
>>> reading it out.
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>> What I'm looking to do here is not to avoid the bandwidth associated with
>> the video but to be able to download the audio so I can feed it into
>> a speech to text model.
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> The model can also give you the baroque (is there any other kind) of
> ffmpeg invocation to strip out just the audio.
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Indeed it could, if the video were available for download at some official
URL.

-Ekr


>> -Ekr
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