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A Message from the Atlanta Flower Collective — Transcript Corrections

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Segment: 07, Cut Flower Symposium, July 23, 2026, light track
Speakers: Jess Neese and Ashley Blackstone; introduced by Gabrielle LaTora, moderated by Bethany Harris
Duration: 14:17.7 (857.684 s measured)
Sources: skeleton AFC_parakeet.srt (161 blocks), text AFC_whisperkit.srt, names from the GUI export

Verification

coverage_check.py AFC_parakeet.srt    97.16 %, 0 gaps            PASS
coverage_check.py AFC_whisperkit.srt  96.19 %, 1 gap 8:50.7-9:01.5
coverage_check.py GUI export          89.57 %, 3 gaps      REVIEW
coverage_check.py corrected           97.16 %, 0 gaps            PASS
srt_hygiene.py  161 = 161 blocks, 322/322 skeleton lines identical,
                0 lines over 42 chars, 62 over 2 lines, 0 markers  PASS

Coverage proof. Early (0:57) Jess Neese names Field and Flower as her farm; middle (6:51) the collective sells on the Open Food Network; late (13:46) sales split about 50-50.

Judgment calls

  • Both Whisper passes share the 10.8 s hole at 8:50.7, and both close it with an invented verb, ending Ashley at “that aspect for the farmers has increased.” Parakeet carries three more sentences and a clip confirms “has improved our quality of life, really”, so Parakeet wins 91 to 94. Same pattern at 138: WhisperKit ends on “learning how to grow?”, Parakeet runs into “count how many stems are going to be available?”
  • Block 7 mixes speakers (Ashley asks, Jess answers) in 2.6 s. Kept whole under Ashley, split in the prose. Three turn boundaries moved off Parakeet’s diarization on content plus the GUI export: 126 “Trial and error” is Jess answering; 151 and 152 stay with Ashley; 161 is the moderator closing.
  • Parakeet won a proper noun: block 37 “Roadie”, the UPS courier, not “Rody”.

Flags, opened and closed 2026-08-10

Clips cut on the device, re-transcribed in the container. Zero open flags.

  • 53 “Geek farming”: a Parakeet artifact, the clip has only “because farming”. Audio.
  • 58 “Brandy”: “branding”, and 17 “met in 2000” as transcribed. Both audio.
  • 15 “field and flower”: “Field and Flower”, her farm. Sense, and the clip agreed.
  • 11 “trafficy” against “trafficking”: “trafficky”. Sense, she is outdoors warning about noise. The clip pass shares WhisperKit’s model family, so its agreement is not independent.

Corrections applied

Speaker 1 to 4 mapped to Gabrielle LaTora, Ashley Blackstone, Jess Neese, Bethany Harris. “Jess Nice”, “Jess Neys” to Jess Neese (8, 12); “LC” to LLC (24); “cotflower” to cut flower (25); “the forest”, “forests”, “florist” to florists (29, 97, 112); “floor cells”, “pre-cells”, “cells” to floor/pre-sales (63, 75, 155, 156); “STEM count” to stem count (124); “sins” to stems (139); “one stop” to one-stop (137); “twenty twenty-five” to 2025 (21). Grammar: “it is increased” to “has increased” (88); “who were” to “who works” (39); “are basically” to “our, basically” (104). Stutters taken from WhisperKit at 96, 111, 113, 124, 139, 143, 154 and the doubled “ourselves” at 18, false starts Parakeet preserved kept at 36, 55, 62, 97. Block-initial capitals lowercased mid-sentence, so the prose needs no case repair.

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