The Reynolds Journalism Institute Innovation team is partnering with Open Vallejo and its nonprofit parent, Informed California, to build the Public Safety Scanner Tool, or PSST, in collaboration with Big Local News at Stanford. Our developer for this project is Verso, an artificial intelligence studio for media based in San Francisco.
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism provided the seed money that started this idea, RJI is providing the funding and support to build it and Big Local News at Stanford University will host and maintain PSST after launch so the tool stays free and accessible to newsrooms.
PSST will monitor scanner feeds around the clock for the tones that signal the most serious emergencies. When it detects one, the tool sends an alert to Slack or email with a preliminary transcript and a link to the audio.
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