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L. Bernard Jakes

Director, Chicago Transit Board

We identified Jakes’ voice at nine meetings.

9 of 10transcribed meetings with their voice identified
3.6min a meeting at the Chicago Transit Board, at least
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Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Jakes’ voice

Nine, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Jakes’ first remark.

  1. Aug 12, 2026Chicago Transit Board5.1 min9:29
  2. Jul 8, 2026Chicago Transit Board7.2 min15:28
  3. Jun 10, 2026Chicago Transit Board3.2 min1:05:10
  4. May 13, 2026Chicago Transit Board4.2 min17:22
  5. Apr 8, 2026Chicago Transit Board3.1 min43:41
  6. Mar 11, 2026Chicago Transit Board1.9 min1:45
  7. Jan 14, 2026Chicago Transit Board3.6 min13:47
  8. Dec 10, 2025Chicago Transit Board1.9 min1:24:28
  9. Nov 12, 2025Chicago Transit Board5.9 min34:23
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Jakes was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets L. Bernard Jakes’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Jakes said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Jakes or of Chicago alone.