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Ben Gould

Commissioner, Oakland Budget Advisory Commission

Raised city budget and Measure E at three meetings.

6 of 6transcribed meetings with their voice identified
Talk time, and Gould’s other bodies
Neighborhoods Gould named

One place Gould named in meetings

Lines where Gould 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.

Oakland
  • West Oakland 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s neighborhoods (CEDA) file (City of Oakland Open Data Portal); a well-known area with no boundary of its own sits at its OpenStreetMap point. A dot says the place was named, not where Gould was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Gould’s voice

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

  1. Sep 15, 2026Budget Advisory Commission3.8 min1:08:30
  2. Aug 12, 2026Budget Advisory Commission0.5 min1:55:26
  3. Jul 8, 2026Budget Advisory Commission3.8 min18:24
  4. Mar 11, 2026Budget Advisory Commission11.9 min30:54
  5. Feb 11, 2026Budget Advisory Commission21.3 min21:49
  6. Dec 3, 2025Budget Advisory Commission13.0 min12:27
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

We identified Gould’s voice at six meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Gould was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Ben Gould’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 Gould 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 Gould or of Oakland alone.