File: Tennessee Cut Flower Trials and Market Research (seg 03)
Date Corrected: August 9, 2026, flags closed the same day
Webinar Date: July 23, 2026
Series: Cut Flower Symposium
Topic: Warm season variety and fertility trials, sunflower spacing, grower and consumer surveys
Speakers: Natalie Bumgarner, Associate Professor and Extension Specialist, University of Tennessee; Celeste Scott, Commercial Horticulture Specialist, UT Extension West TN
Recorded intro: Bethany Harris, then Whitney Ottinger on the bios
Moderator: Gabrielle LaTora, ANR Agent, Fulton County, GA
Track: Full. Session A of three, plus the sweep
Output: GTBOP_Transcript_2026-07-23_BumgarnerScottUTResearch.srt
SOURCE VERIFICATION
Three files merged by role, each read in full.
| Input | Blocks | Role |
|---|---|---|
_SourceBaselines/Natalie and Celeste_parakeet.srt | 402 | Skeleton, timing |
_SourceBaselines/Natalie and Celeste_whisperkit.srt | 115 | Text, terminology |
Ingest/.../Natalie Bumgarner and Celeste Scott.srt | 112 | Names |
- Blocks: 402 in, 402 out ✓ MATCH. Range: 00:00:00,001 to 00:30:30,220
- Media:
Natalie and Celeste.mp4, 1830.719 s (30:30.7) - File reading: COMPLETE ✓ all three inputs
- Coverage proof:
- Early [~2:09]: the Center for Profitable Agriculture grant and the trip to Utah to meet Melanie, who speaks later in the symposium
- Middle [~15:33]: the sunflower spacing design, one plant on six-inch spacing against two per hole, then two on nine-inch centers
- Late [~29:11]: Frosted Explosion, an annual panicum grass, plus ornamental millets and basil as fillers, with a warning about cutting basil before the stems feel woody
Verification, run from _Verify/
Before correction:
COVERAGE CHECK Natalie and Celeste_parakeet.srt
media duration 1830.719 s (30:30.719)
blocks 402
covered 1799.235 s
coverage 98.28 %
gaps >= 3.0 s 0
blocks starting past media end 0
blocks ending past media end 0
verdict PASS
After correction:
SRT HYGIENE GTBOP_Transcript_2026-07-23_BumgarnerScottUTResearch.srt
blocks 402
block count 402 = 402 MATCH
skeleton 804/804 lines byte-identical PASS
sequence numbers 1..402 contiguous PASS
lines over 42 chars 0 of 1081 (0.0 %)
blocks over 2 lines 197 of 402 (49.0 %) caption-editor pass, not a defect
open markers 0
verdict PASS
Re-run after the sweep. The 2-line count moved from 199 to 197 because the resolved words changed the wrapping, which is why proofs are re-run, not reused.
Fourteen sub-second gaps were read on both sides. Thirteen are pauses inside complete sentences; the fourteenth is below.
What each engine dropped and recovered
The text engine lost two windows; the skeleton lost none.
| Span | Missing from | Covered by |
|---|---|---|
| 22:11.6 to 22:29.6 (18.0 s) | WhisperKit CLI | Parakeet, GUI |
| 24:29.0 to 24:47.8 (18.8 s) | GUI export | Parakeet, WhisperKit |
| 21:55.4 to 21:57.1 | both Whisper passes | Parakeet: “impulse purchases” |
| 28:38.6 to 28:42.2 (3.5 s) | both Whisper passes | Parakeet: “plant population counts to make sure our data was correct” |
Two Whisper passes of one recording dropped different windows, so neither alone covers the talk. WhisperKit block 94 is out of order and repeats block 92; excluded.
One recovered word placed by judgment. The largest gap, 0.98 s at 18:19.78, spans an incomplete sentence: “set you guys up for a little better” then “confident in expecting those flower head sizes.” The GUI export carries “situation” there; placed at the end of block 235.
Two overlapping backchannels, 29:57.25 and 30:14.33, sit inside skeleton blocks belonging to the other speaker. Blocks are not split, so they are absent.
Judgment calls on content words
Seven of eight went to the skeleton engine, matching segment 02.
| Block | Parakeet | WhisperKit | Kept | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | has fueled what we do | has worked. What we do | Parakeet | WhisperKit splits the sentence, stranding a clause |
| 88 | trialed | tried | Parakeet | She says “trialed” six other times |
| 113 | the couple of poor folks | four folks | Parakeet | They were drafted, paid and overwhelmed |
| 119 | harvesting tactics | harvesting rate | Parakeet | What follows describes practice, not frequency |
| 116 | together | trends | WhisperKit | Context proves neither, so the text engine holds |
| 272 | certainly yourselves | certainly your sales | Parakeet | The question asked is where growers sell |
| 336 | add some more plants | add some more information | Parakeet | The tools added are per crop budgets |
| 388 | beautiful contrast | beautiful growth | Parakeet | Paired with “different movement in your arrangements” |
Six WhisperKit seam duplications were rejected and one Parakeet artifact dropped, “and match them” at 257.
Corrections applied
150 of 402 blocks changed.
Names. Baumgarner and Bungarner to Bumgarner (10). Gabriela Torah to Gabrielle LaTora (344). UT Extensions to UT Extension’s (6).
Crops and cultivars. Ten ASR renderings of celosia, from salosha to Selocious, normalised. Karoom and caroom to Kurume after the sweep. Xenia, Zenia and Zinhas to zinnia. zenderillas to Zinderellas. binary giants and Binari to Benary’s Giants. queenies to Queenys, queenie lime orange to Queeny Lime Orange. flamingo feather to Flamingo Feather, pompous plume to Pampas Plume, Sunday greens and oranges to Sunday Greens and Sunday Oranges. gonfrena to gomphrena. cox comb to coxcomb.
Technical. “a 2010 twin 2010 20 soluble fertilizer” to “a 20-10-20 soluble fertilizer” (96, 97). decitron to Dosatron, the injector brand (97). STEM to stem counts (135). phyto-toxic to phytotoxic, turf grass to turfgrass, flowerhead to flower head, cut flour to cut flower six times.
Grammar and readability. Parakeet’s terminal period removed wherever the sentence continues into the next block, again the largest single category. Nine doubled words and five false starts removed, with the fillers “um” and “uh”. gonna to going to and wanna to want to, following the text engine. Hyphenation standardised on six-inch, nine-inch, four-inch and three-inch before a noun.
Left as spoken. “y’all”; “per square foot” at 87 where “per thousand square foot” is expected; “growing for themselves” at 279 and “Agaves” at 101, both confirmed on the recording; “burnt fabrics” at 196, which this context supports as trade usage for pre-burned landscape fabric, so the hub’s verify row stays open pending audio.
Speaker labels
Parakeet’s four diarization labels map to five people: the GUI voice library splits the recorded introduction.
| Source label | Person | Blocks |
|---|---|---|
| Speaker 1 | Bethany Harris | 1 |
| Speaker 1 | Whitney Ottinger | 9 |
| Speaker 2 | Natalie Bumgarner | 127 |
| Speaker 3 | Celeste Scott | 250 |
| Speaker 4 | Gabrielle LaTora | 15 |
All fifteen turn boundaries were read on both sides. Two were wrong and moved.
- Block 341, “So Bethany, I’ll turn it back over to you,” is Parakeet’s Speaker 4. It is Natalie handing back; Gabrielle opens at 342. Reassigned.
- Blocks 368 and 369, “Okay. One more question if you want to,” are Gabrielle in the GUI export and Celeste in Parakeet. Kept with Celeste: Gabrielle’s next line, “Thank you, Celeste. We’ve got one more question in the chat,” would otherwise restate her own announcement.
The GUI export lagged the boundary at blocks 21, 48, 260 and 342, and gave 402 to Celeste when it is the moderator. Lag is 3 for 3.
No block mixes speakers, third segment running, because the Parakeet skeleton is fine enough that turns land on block edges.
Audio sweep, closed same day
Seven markers were raised at merge and all seven closed against the recording the same day, before any derived file existed. Zero markers remain. Worksheet and results are in GTBOP_AudioSweep_CutFlowerSymposium.md, sweep 2.
| Block | Time | Raised as | Resolved to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101 | 7:37 | agave's | Agaves, confirmed as spoken. A zinnia with a cactus flower form |
| 138 | 10:36 | school | cull, as in “our highest cull percentage” |
| 156, 187 | 12:03, 14:19 | Karoom, caroom | Kurume, a celosia. Both speakers name it; both agree |
| 250 | 19:22 | m the | the And More, the title of the slide shown |
| 279 | 21:45 | growing | growing, confirmed |
| 339 | 26:03 | let's | Celeste |
Four markers were suspect agreements and two of those were wrong. school and let's corrected, agave's and growing confirmed. That is the case for flagging an agreed token that does not read, and for keeping the count low: half come back unchanged. Kurume was raised at two timecodes, so one flag bought two independent passes.
Totals
157 blocks edited across the merge and the sweep, 0 open flags, 8 judgment calls, 2 boundaries moved, 1 recovered word placed. Format compliance is asserted by the srt_hygiene.py output above. The 197 blocks over 2 lines need the caption-editor pass, since they cannot be reduced without splitting blocks.
Produced for UGA Center for Urban Agriculture / Cut Flower Symposium Archives
Sources: Parakeet v3 and WhisperKit Large v3 Turbo baselines plus the GUI export, August 7, 2026