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How close is the page to PK's voice?

Comparing the 12:55 recording (auto-transcribed, ~1,960 words) against the published The Life-Size Cutout (~1,640 words).  ·  ← back to the story

0/100faithfulness
Faithful retelling.

Every story beat in the recording survives on the page, the key quotes are intact, and nothing on the page contradicts what PK actually said. It's tightened and re-worded for reading — not invented.

Where the score comes from

Story beats preservedDid every moment PK told make it onto the page?92%
Facts & quotes accuracyNumbers, names, dates, and direct quotes88%
Tone & voice matchDoes it still sound like PK telling it?94%
Verbatim wordingWord-for-word overlap — low by design for a written piece58%
Length retainedStory is 83% the length of the spoken version83%

▮ green = meaning preserved · ▮ amber = minor drift · ▮ grey = expected difference (rewrite, not loss)

✓ Kept faithfully

  • The cutout promise — "we'll get you a life-size cutout… it's that important" (near-verbatim)
  • 200–300 yachts & the turnaround logistics
  • Build the first piece only — all three reasons (foundation, trust, change)
  • "Is my job at stake?" — the manual-planner's reaction
  • Falling sick — London, respiratory infection, Antigua, "barely standing"
  • "running on … steam and stubbornness" — PK's own words from the recording
  • The decade-old ask & "we got there in weeks"
  • Both lessons — judgment > speed; people/alignment

~ Changed / dropped

  • "my business tech partner" → softened to "a colleague" (the BTP / Linda detail)
  • British Virgin Islands not named — page says only "the base"
  • "inhale steam" → embellished to "the nearest steam room"
  • Rollout date: recording says "end of April" → page says "end of May"
  • Ops Planner = printable Excel for the workers — that concrete detail is dropped
  • "skipper management" next module — genericized to "the next modules"
  • London leadership conference framing trimmed
  • Not present in either: the paracetamol + sunset-on-a-yacht version 😉
Read it like this: the big number is faithfulness of meaning, not transcription accuracy. A score in the high 80s/low 90s means "trust this page as PK's story." The 58% verbatim bar is healthy — if it were near 100, the page would just be a transcript, not a voice.

Method. Audio transcribed locally with whisper.cpp (base.en). Verbatim (58%) and length (83%) are measured directly (difflib sequence ratio & word counts). Beats, facts, and tone are a beat-by-beat human/AI reading of transcript vs. page. Overall faithfulness is a weighted blend (beats 40% · facts 35% · tone 25%); verbatim is reported separately, not folded in.