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Re: Tools to preparing captions (subtitles)

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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: May 22, 2013 6:38PM


I don't do a LOT of captioning, but I find the technique described in the
previous email great:

Make a good transcript.
Feed it to YouTube, which will attempt to sync it.
Check

You can decide how perfect the sync needs to be. If it's not good enough"

Download, tweak, upload
Repeat.

YouTube does very well at matching text to speech, but not so well (yet) at
generating speech to text.

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