http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/liferecording Questions tagged with 'liferecording' at Ask MetaFilter. Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:02:30 -0800 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:02:30 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/77771/Would%2Dcurrent%2Dtechnology%2Dallow%2Dsomeone%2Dto%2Dmake%2Dan%2Daudio%2Drecording%2Dof%2Dtheir%2Dlife Would current technology allow someone to make an audio recording of their life? I was pondering on the topic of augmented memory, and how someone with a bad memory might use technology to give themselves a leg up. It seems to me that with a tiny microphone and high-capacity flash memory a person could literally record everything they hear. There are open-source speech codecs (http://www.speex.org/) that can even take care of detecting when speech is being heard. Ethical implications aside, would this be possible? Is anyone doing this in a homebrew kind of way? <br> <br> Reliable computerised transcription would obviously make it much easier to manage the recordings.... it seems likely that someone must be making recordings, with a view to running them all through a decent transcription program when it's developed in 10 or 20 years time. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.77771 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:02:30 -0800 audio liferecording memory primer_dimer