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CNBC Transcript: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Spoke with CNBC's Sara Eisen at CNBC's "Invest in America Forum" in Washington, D.C. Today, Wednesday, October 15 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/cnbc-transcript-us-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-spoke-with-cnbcs-sara-eisen-at-cnbcs-invest-in-america-forum-in-washington-dc-today-wednesday-october-15.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p151#a251015p151

Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more (Lex Fridman)
https://lexfridman.com/pavel-durov-transcript

Trump just called for the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago to be thrown in prison.
And when Mike Johnson was asked about Trump’s call for their jailing, the speaker evaded and dodged.
It’s becoming jarringly clear that there’s very little in the way of defenses standing in the way of Trump’s escalating authoritarianism.
And yet, at the same time, there is resistance developinginside places like DOJ.
And that matters, even if it doesn’t seem like it at…

Transcript: Trump Threats to Jail Foes Darken amid Damning DOJ Leaks
As ugly new information emerges about Trump’s efforts to prosecute James Comey and other enemies, a former federal prosecutor explains how his corrupt schemes are running into stiff internal resistance.

Do we have a name for when AI fails at itself?
For example, a YouTube video with “GPT" in the title and the auto/ai-generated transcript says “ChachiBt”, “Chachib”, “Chbt”, and probably other failures.

Transcript: Trump ICE Raids Worsen as Pritzker Drops Bombshell Warning (New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/201606/transcript-trump-ice-raids-worsen-pritzker-drops-bombshell-warning
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p26#a251010p26

Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here. - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/read-full-transcript-norah-odonnell-60-minutes-interview-with-president-trump/

Stated Preference for Interaction and Continued Engagement (SPICE): Evaluating an LLM's Willingness to Re-engage in Conversation
Thomas Manuel Rost, Martina Figlia, Bernd Wallraff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09043

Stated Preference for Interaction and Continued Engagement (SPICE): Evaluating an LLM's Willingness to Re-engage in Conversation
We introduce and evaluate Stated Preference for Interaction and Continued Engagement (SPICE), a simple diagnostic signal elicited by asking a Large Language Model a YES or NO question about its willingness to re-engage with a user's behavior after reviewing a short transcript. In a study using a 3-tone (friendly, unclear, abusive) by 10-interaction stimulus set, we tested four open-weight chat models across four framing conditions, resulting in 480 trials. Our findings show that SPICE sharply d…

Transcript: Trump Suddenly Facing Worsening Losses on Many Key Fronts (New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/200103/transcript-trump-suddenly-facing-worsening-losses-many-key-fronts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p140#a250908p140

Augmenting speech transcripts of VR recordings with gaze, pointing, and visual context for multimodal coreference resolution
Riccardo Bovo, Frederik Brudy, George Fitzmaurice, Fraser Anderson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08689

Augmenting speech transcripts of VR recordings with gaze, pointing, and visual context for multimodal coreference resolution
Understanding transcripts of immersive multimodal conversations is challenging because speakers frequently rely on visual context and non-verbal cues, such as gestures and visual attention, which are not captured in speech alone. This lack of information makes coreferences resolution-the task of linking ambiguous expressions like ``it'' or ``there'' to their intended referents-particularly challenging. In this paper we present a system that augments VR speech transcript with eye-tracking laser …

Senator Murphy:
It’s pretty wild that the corruption is so brazen, is so transparent.
Vought sent out this tweet yesterday saying, I’m canceling energy projects in the following states, and listed the states.
And every single one of them is a state represented by two Democratic senators.
And the one Democratic senator who voted for the Republican continuing resolution
—that senator’s state wasn’t on the list.
So, you know, it’s just there for everybody to s…

Transcript: Chris Murphy’s Dark and Unnerving New Warning about Trump
The Democratic Senator has taken the lead in drawing attention to Trump’s authoritarianism. In an interview, he offers a stark new warning that should galvanize his fellow Democrats before it’s too late.

The whole "discourse" meme is rotting people's brains.
(Original title: Doin’ Discourse With Ezra and Charlie)
https://leftycartoons.com/2025/09/26/doin-discourse-with-ezra-and-charlie/

Doin’ Discourse With Ezra and Charlie
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels, all featuring the same three characters. Charlie, a white man in a suit and tie. Ezra, a white man in more casual clothing. And Reader, a Latina …

I saw snippets of this “interview,” how much more does it need to remove Trump from the office as he is clearly unfit? It's much more than “I don’t care.” He won’t face any consequences as he will most probably be declared not responsible for his actions due to his mental-medical status. I just hope someone took the red button away from him and they only let him play with golden Lego bricks all day long

#Fascism

The Wire creator David Simon was recently interviewed on NPR by Ari Shapiro. Partly about "AI". A short exchange from that is being shared all over - and it's good, but the full segment about "AI" is even more rewarding I think.

The one that is being widely shared from the transcript is only the first of these three images.

Content warning: Reference to self-harm.

Full transcript: h…

Statistical study of the transcript of vote counts in multi-member constituencies: Identifying electoral fraud and reconstructing voting returns
Andrey V. Podlazov, Vadim Makarov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00118

Statistical study of the transcript of vote counts in multi-member constituencies: Identifying electoral fraud and reconstructing voting returns
We propose new methods of electoral statistics. With their help, we study transcripts of vote counting in municipal elections. We construct and apply effective statistical tests to detect the ballot stuffing at the level of individual candidates and ballots as a whole. We study the difference between falsifications for the administration and against the opposition. We construct indicators assessing the credibility of transcripts as a whole. We propose a model of voter behavior to reconstruct th…

The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani's Victory Speech (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/nyregion/mamdani-speech-transcript.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p80#a251105p80

As Karoline Leavitt struggles to defend RFK Jr.’s purging of the Centers for Disease Control,
a governing expert explains the enormity of the stakes involved in Trump’s destruction of our public health system
https://newrepublic.com/article/199832

Transcript: Trump Press Sec’s Dumb Spin Implodes as RFK Fiasco Worsens
As Karoline Leavitt struggles to defend RFK Jr.’s purging of the Centers for Disease Control, a governing expert explains the enormity of the stakes involved in Trump’s destruction of our public health system.

Quantum Statistical Witness Indistinguishability
Shafik Nassar, Ronak Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01945 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01945…

Quantum Statistical Witness Indistinguishability
Statistical witness indistinguishability is a relaxation of statistical zero-knowledge which guarantees that the transcript of an interactive proof reveals no information about which valid witness the prover used to generate it. In this paper we define and initiate the study of QSWI, the class of problems with quantum statistically witness indistinguishable proofs. Using inherently quantum techniques from Kobayashi (TCC 2008), we prove that any problem with an honest-verifier quantum statisti…

Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you and, as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God.
In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now.
There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and Independent families, some who fear for their lives.
And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry fa…

Full Transcript of the 2025 Inauguration Prayer Service Address by the Rt. Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde, the Bishop of Washington - San Francisco Bay Times
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of all our hearts be acceptable in your sight, oh God, for you are our strength and our Redeemer. Amen. Please be seated. Again, my warm welcome to all who have gathered in this House of prayer for all people and for those who are joining […]

RephraseTTS: Dynamic Length Text based Speech Insertion with Speaker Style Transfer
Neeraj Matiyali, Siddharth Srivastava, Gaurav Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17031 https:/…

RephraseTTS: Dynamic Length Text based Speech Insertion with Speaker Style Transfer
We propose a method for the task of text-conditioned speech insertion, i.e. inserting a speech sample in an input speech sample, conditioned on the corresponding complete text transcript. An example use case of the task would be to update the speech audio when corrections are done on the corresponding text transcript. The proposed method follows a transformer-based non-autoregressive approach that allows speech insertions of variable lengths, which are dynamically determined during inference, b…

EXCLUSIVE: Full Transcript: Daily Caller Interviews President Donald Trump (Reagan Reese/The Daily Caller)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/01/donald-trump-reagan-reese-daily-caller-interview-full-transcript/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p78#a250901p78

Google updates video editing tool Vids to add AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools, and releases a basic version to all users (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/google-vid…

Google Vids adds AI avatars to its video editor and launches a consumer version | TechCrunch
Google is launching a free consumer version of its video editor Vids that will be available without any AI-powered features.

Transcript: Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Aug. 31, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kristi-noem-homeland-security-face-the-nation-transcript-08-31-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p75#a250831p75

Transcript: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Aug. 31, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-democrat-face-the-nation-transcript-08-31-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p60#a250831p60

Sad.

Such intelligent and thoughtful comments from the Singapore PM. It is embarrassing as a USA citizen how foolish and ignorant our leaders are. We need to elect people with much more integrity and competence as they do in Singapore. Singapore is so well run and the USA is now being run into the ground by extremely bad policy. The damage the USA as done to its future this year is beyond calculation. We will be paying for decades for our foolish votes last year.

PM Lawrence Wong in an interview with the Financial Times (Oct 2025)
Transcript of Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong's interview with the Financial Times' (FT) Editor, Roula Khalaf, on 21 October 2025.

Epstein files: DOJ sends docs to Oversight, releases Ghislaine Maxwell transcript
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5466284-epstein-files-doj-oversight-maxwell/

Really bad stuff is continuing to happen. The White House is now circulating a draft of a bill that would vastly expand Trump’s authority for exactly these types of bombings.
We’ve also had another one of these strikes, and it appears just as dubious as the first one.
And Trump announced that strike with an absolutely deranged tweet that should raise alarms everywhere, but isn’t.
Meanwhile, Democrats just introduced a measure to restrain Trump and the prospects for getti…

Transcript: Trump Drug Boat Bombings Get Worse as Damning Info Emerges
As Trump’s military attacks on supposed drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea get worse, a legal expert explains what we know and what we don’t—and why we may be headed toward even darker lawlessness.

Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here. (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/read-full-transcript-norah-odonnell-60-minutes-interview-with-president-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251102/p83#a251102p83

It's funny because when I captioned NPR's audio I realised the transcript on their website is wrong.

David Simon does not say:

"You mentioned that."

He said:

"You imagine that?"

As NPR likely use "AI" for their transcripts, this adds an extra layer of irony.

ChatGPT Atlas will feature an agent mode to let ChatGPT take actions; clicking a search link will show a split-screen with the webpage and a ChatGPT transcript (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here
ChatGPT is the “beating heart of Atlas,” according to employees on the livestream.

Why Synthetic Isn't Real Yet: A Diagnostic Framework for Contact Center Dialogue Generation
Rishikesh Devanathan, Varun Nathan, Ayush Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18210 …

Why Synthetic Isn't Real Yet: A Diagnostic Framework for Contact Center Dialogue Generation
Synthetic transcript generation is critical in contact center domains, where privacy and data scarcity limit model training and evaluation. Unlike prior synthetic dialogue generation work on open-domain or medical dialogues, contact center conversations are goal-oriented, role-asymmetric, and behaviorally complex, featuring disfluencies, ASR noise, and compliance-driven agent actions. In deployments where transcripts are unavailable, standard pipelines still yield derived call attributes such a…

Reference-free automatic speech severity evaluation using acoustic unit language modelling
Bence Mark Halpern, Tomoki Toda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00639 https://

Reference-free automatic speech severity evaluation using acoustic unit language modelling
Speech severity evaluation is becoming increasingly important as the economic burden of speech disorders grows. Current speech severity models often struggle with generalization, learning dataset-specific acoustic cues rather than meaningful correlates of speech severity. Furthermore, many models require reference speech or a transcript, limiting their applicability in ecologically valid scenarios, such as spontaneous speech evaluation. Previous research indicated that automatic speech naturaln…

Transcript: Sen. Lindsey Graham on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Oct. 26, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsey-graham-south-carolina-republican-face-the-nation-transcript-10-26-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p45#a251026p45

VSSFlow: Unifying Video-conditioned Sound and Speech Generation via Joint Learning
Xin Cheng, Yuyue Wang, Xihua Wang, Yihan Wu, Kaisi Guan, Yijing Chen, Peng Zhang, Xiaojiang Liu, Meng Cao, Ruihua Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24773

VSSFlow: Unifying Video-conditioned Sound and Speech Generation via Joint Learning
Video-conditioned sound and speech generation, encompassing video-to-sound (V2S) and visual text-to-speech (VisualTTS) tasks, are conventionally addressed as separate tasks, with limited exploration to unify them within a signle framework. Recent attempts to unify V2S and VisualTTS face challenges in handling distinct condition types (e.g., heterogeneous video and transcript conditions) and require complex training stages. Unifying these two tasks remains an open problem. To bridge this gap, we…

Transcript: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Oct. 26, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-bessent-treasury-secretary-face-the-nation-transcript-10-26-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p20#a251026p20

Transcript: Gavin Newsom's Harsh Trump Takedown Nails It: "Wake Up!" (New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/199500/transcript-gavin-newsom-harsh-trump-takedown-nails-it-wake-up
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p57#a250825p57

Transcript: Jamie Raskin's Harsh New Takedown of Trump Lays MAGA Bare (New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202212/transcript-jamie-raskin-harsh-new-takedown-trump-lays-maga-bare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p40#a251024p40

Transcript: Rep. Mike Lawler on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Aug. 24, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-lawler-republican-congressman-face-the-nation-transcript-08-24-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p29#a250824p29

SloPalSpeech: A 2,8000-Hour Slovak Speech Corpus from Parliamentary Data
Erik Bo\v{z}\'ik, Marek \v{S}uppa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19270 https://arx…

Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump's Interview on the Gaza Ceasefire With TIME (Time)
https://time.com/7327689/trump-israel-gaza-deal-interview-transcript/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p58#a251023p58

Reasoning Beyond Majority Vote: An Explainable SpeechLM Framework for Speech Emotion Recognition
Bo-Hao Su, Hui-Ying Shih, Jinchuan Tian, Jiatong Shi, Chi-Chun Lee, Carlos Busso, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24187

Reasoning Beyond Majority Vote: An Explainable SpeechLM Framework for Speech Emotion Recognition
Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is typically trained and evaluated on majority-voted labels, which simplifies benchmarking but masks subjectivity and provides little transparency into why predictions are made. This neglects valid minority annotations and limits interpretability. We propose an explainable Speech Language Model (SpeechLM) framework that frames SER as a generative reasoning task. Given an utterance, the model first produces a transcript, then outputs both an emotion label and a c…

Full transcript: Secretary of State Marco Rubio on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Aug. 17, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marco-rubio-face-the-nation-transcript-8-17-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p57#a250817p57

'This Week' Transcript 10-26-25: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Sen. Mark Kelly, Lt. Gen Doug Lute (Ret.) and Kathryn Bigelow (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-10-26-25-treasury-secretary-scott/story?id=126866043
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p36#a251026p36

Spot the BlindSpots: Systematic Identification and Quantification of Fine-Grained LLM Biases in Contact Center Summaries
Kawin Mayilvaghanan, Siddhant Gupta, Ayush Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13124

Spot the BlindSpots: Systematic Identification and Quantification of Fine-Grained LLM Biases in Contact Center Summaries
Abstractive summarization is a core application in contact centers, where Large Language Models (LLMs) generate millions of summaries of call transcripts daily. Despite their apparent quality, it remains unclear whether LLMs systematically under- or over-attend to specific aspects of the transcript, potentially introducing biases in the generated summary. While prior work has examined social and positional biases, the specific forms of bias pertinent to contact center operations - which we term…

Justice Department Releases Ghislaine Maxwell Interview Transcripts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/ghislaine-maxwell-doj-transcript-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gU8.G2mX.lMEr0VSjQirx&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250823/p6#a250823p6

Epstein co-conspirator: "I do not believe he died by suicide" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/22/ghislaine-maxwell-transcript-epstein-suicide-doj
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p108#a250822p108

Ghislaine Maxwell says she never saw Trump "in any inappropriate setting" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/22/ghislaine-maxwell-transcript-interview-doj-epstein-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250822/p125#a250822p125

The Daily Wrap Up -- [ Transcript edited for clarity and flow] -- Are we still shocked? Really? (Mary L Trump/The Good in Us)
https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-daily-wrap-up-b2c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p125#a251022p125

Transcript: Sen. Mark Kelly on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Oct. 19, 2025 (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mark-kelly-arizona-democrat-face-the-nation-10-19-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p37#a251019p37