Benny B. Tran

Commissioner, Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners

We identified Tran’s voice at one meeting.

1 of 5transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Talk time, and Tran’s other bodies

Board of Water and Power Commissioners: talk time not compared. Seated for only 5 meetings in 12 months.

Neighborhoods Tran named

One place Tran named in meetings

Lines where Tran named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

Los Angeles

South Los Angeles 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Neighborhood Councils (Certified) file (City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering (LA GeoHub)). A dot says the place was named, not where Tran was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Tran’s voice

One, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Tran’s first remark.

Aug 25, 2026Board of Water and Power Commissioners0.4 min1:41:55

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 Tran was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Benny B. Tran’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 Tran 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 Tran or of Los Angeles alone.