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We wake it up. We wake it up by singing to it, and we do this because we want it to awaken happy, and everything will be well and good again. 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All right, let's go to Africa. So we were in the Amazon. Now let's go to Africa. And in Africa, there's some people called the forest people, okay? This is a boo..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0048", "segment_id": "seg-0048", "start": 2734.35, "end": 2794.49, "time_label": "45:34", "speaker": "SPEAKER_03", "excerpt": "Okay? If you're not, if you refuse to honor their traditions, then they will ostracize you, or they may even kill you, okay? So the pygmies are having a religious festival. 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Okay..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0059" ], "note": "The student's comparison is semantically clear but ASR is rough around examples such as 'iron' and 'previous people'; treat the public question broadly.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0059", "segment_id": "seg-0059", "start": 3241.93, "end": 3275.58, "time_label": "54:01", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "any more questions so i do i do agree that we cannot be promised nowadays and i'll definitely die if you just put me on a pathetic but but like for more for more modern people we also can do a lot of things that previou..." } ], "lens_points": [], "lens_points_detail": [] }, { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0065", "video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0066" ], "note": "The short hesitant exchange before the final student question is not substantive enough to treat as a public question.", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0065", "segment_id": "seg-0065", "start": 3293.92, "end": 3294.36, "time_label": "54:53", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Um..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-vtnra-gnkm8@transcript:v1#seg-0066", "segment_id": "seg-0066", "start": 3296.96, "end": 3305.23, "time_label": "54:56", "speaker": "SPEAKER_03", "excerpt": "Okay, yeah, I mean, give me an example. 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