[Steve in Pudsey]

I see that Autoscript have a voice control product, has that been trialled anywhere in the UK?

[Technologist]

The BBC trialed a system in 2001 see WHP 015 page 9
downloads.bbc.co.uk 
It formed the basis of an MPhil thesis
BBC R&D was working with speech to text from say 30 years ago.
And the white paper mentioned covers most of them..

Prompter systems did not have to have very good speech to text as you already had the script….
And likewise the auto alignment and “blocking up” of real-time subtitles into IPlayer
And also used as part if the rough creation of prepared subtitles e.g Eastenders…
And as it had the script it parsed the whole episode and chose non clashing colours

[IanJRedman]

With the greatest of respect to the man, shouldn't a properly trained newsreader/presenter understand that stamping on the floor and not saying anything looks remarkably amateurish? I'd assume someone worth their salt would either be able to cover it up or at least be honest with the viewer that there's a problem (quicker than he did).

In fairness, this was probably one of those occasions that simply became a blind panic. It would be understandable if there just wasn't much rational thinking in the heat of the moment.

[John]

Weather forecaster Dan Holley presented his last forecast for Look East this evening as he is leaving WeatherQuest to join the Met Office.

Susie Fowler-Watt Invited him onto the sofa at the end of the programme and showed some clips of his first Look East forecast in 2013 at the age of 22! Shame to see him go as he often added some weather facts into the forecast. Will be interesting to see if they continue to use Chris Bell from WeatherQuest as a stand in presenter when Alex and Julie are off.

[m_in_m]

Weather forecaster Dan Holley presented his last forecast for Look East this evening as he is leaving WeatherQuest to join the Met Office.

Susie Fowler-Watt Invited him onto the sofa at the end of the programme and showed some clips of his first Look East forecast in 2013 at the age of 22! Shame to see him go as he often added some weather facts into the forecast. Will be interesting to see if they continue to use Chris Bell from WeatherQuest as a stand in presenter when Alex and Julie are off.

I would be surprised if they stopped. Whilst it has felt like Dan has been the main cover in Norwich for quite a while Chris has featured as well.

Shame I missed it. Would have been interesting seeing his first - I can't believe how long he's been with them.