(Proto)typing innovation in BBC News
summary
BBC News Labs builds prototypes that cut transcription from three to four hours per recorded hour by pairing OCTO (an in-house speech‑to‑text trained on thousands of hours of BBC audio) with a interactive, time‑encoded text editor built on Draft.js that preserves word‑level timings, interpolates gaps, lets editors click any word to seek video, exports EDLs, and ships as an open‑source component library. Skippy used React drag‑and‑drop to assemble skippable voice journeys and scaled into a new department with hundreds producing daily voice content.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to BBC News Labs
- 1:02Voice innovation with Skippy
- 2:49Building interactive tools
- 6:43The challenge of transcription
- 10:30Developing the editor
- 12:58Technical stack and Draft.js
- 19:43Digital paper editing
- 21:36Scaling and lessons learned
- 24:56Conclusion
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