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Nov 20, 2024, 6 min read

⚗️ alembic: A Psychedelic Salon Transcript Archive

This site is a tool designed to offer greater access and discovery into the extensive material.

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The primary functionality offered is full-text search via full transcripts that sync to audio playback.

These transcripts are machine generated. They contain errors, even many errors. You will find the timestamps to often be slightly off, and sometimes parts of the conversation are dropped in the transcript. You may encounter duplicated lines in the transcript. However, they offer entrance into the audio and are “good enough” for the purposes of following along with the audio playback.

Perhaps there will be offered a way to make manual corrections in the future, or perhaps the software that enables these types of machine transcriptions will become more accurate in the future and we may regenerate them. However, the current state of the transcripts seems to suffice for the purposes of this archive.

An effort has been put into extracting metadata from the program notes and linking to relevant resources.

Speakers have been added as tags. You can browse the list to find all episodes with a specific speaker. You can search for speakers by pressing Shift+Ctrl+K

Tags and URLs may not be stable for the time being because they are being extracted from the program notes and are not always consistent. Work is ongoing to normalize and improve the accuracy of this data. As this occurs, links may shift, along with the tags/speaker metadata attached to an episode.

Images are loaded from their original locations and may be broken.

Similar Episodes

Each episode has a similar episodes section with the top 10 most similar episodes. Similarity is computed using tensorflow + universal sentence encoding. The similarity score is a number between 0 and 1, with 1 being the most similar. The similarity score is calculated by comparing the full text of the current episode to the full text of all other episodes.

Transcript Player

  • The transcript will scroll in sync with the audio during playback. For now, you’ll need to pause to scroll beyond the current position in playback.
  • Click on the play icon next to any timestamp in the transcript to jump to that point in the audio.
  • Share the play timestamp URL with others to direct them to a specific point in the audio.
  • Download links to each episode are offered in the advanced menu of the media player on each page.
  • Click on the title of the page of the matched result to be taken to the top of that page. Each episode page has program notes and a full transcript.
  • Click the context of the matched result to be taken to the specific point in the transcript where the result was found.
  • You can bring up the search menu to search through episode transcripts by pressing Ctrl+K
  • You can bring up tag (author) search mode by pressing Shift+Ctrl+K.

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At desktop resolutions, you’ll see a table of contents and an episode explorer.

Though some robust smartphones / tablets may handle this site well enough, it is best experienced on a desktop or laptop.

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License and Disclaimer

This site is not affiliated with the Psychedelic Salon or Lorenzo Hagerty nor is it endorsed by them. Links provided to the Psychedelic Salon and their Discord Community and Patreon are for the purpose of supporting the original creator, their work, and the community.

The contents of this archive are offered as a reference and study tool. The creator offers no specific guarantees or warranties about the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of the information contained within nor does inclusion in this archive constitute an endorsement of any kind by the archiver. The statements within this archive belong to their respective speakers.

The exercise of your own individual discretion and discernment is a condition of your use for this archive. Do your own research and take responsibility for your own thoughts and actions.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License which means you are free to share and adapt the material for any non-commercial purpose, as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

A special thanks to Lorenzo and the Psychedelic Salon for the generous licensing of the source material. This type of openness and generosity is what makes permissionless creativity, collaboration, discovery, and the sharing of knowledge possible.

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