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A quick story on how to do video to text conversion using Amazon S3. How lazy can you possibly get? Well, that’s my story on how to transcribe text from boring videos, and checking for the keywords, before even checking the video/audio. For the start, first cornerstone was to actually get the video. Most of the Streaming Players use HLS media player that heavily rely on m3u8 extension (those who remember playlists in WinAmp, might remember it), that sets base URL for all the video segments that will be streamed....

Microsoft, Google, Apple. Now Amazon. Whenever IT company becomes a leader in its niche, people start grumbling about its “evil” intents or monopolizing the market. Well, it’s natural for a market (i.e. capitalist) model. Monopoly kills competition, but to become a monopolist you have to really work hard to reach it. Same happened with Amazon recently. Amazon is a retailer, price sensitivity is in their DNA. In the past, when new companies like Digital Ocean have gotten large enough to show up on their radar they’ve reacted with deep price cuts....