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Re: Tools for bringing transscript text and video together

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From: Loretta Guarino Reid
Date: May 22, 2013 8:58PM

Olaf, you can do this today on YouTube.

If your video is in one of the languages that supports automatic speech
recognition, and you have a text transcript for your video, upload it and
YouTube will automatically synchronize the text. The supported languages
are English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German, Italian, French,
Portuguese, Russian, and Dutch. See
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/11/youtube-automatic-captions-now-in-six.htmls.

Whenever a video has captions available, there will be a Transcript icon in
the toolbar below the video (next to "Add To"). Activating the icon will
list the timestamps and text for all the caption lines, and will highlight
the line being displayed in the video as it plays. Clicking on any line
jumps to that point in the video. Use your browser's search function to
search for text in the transcript area.

Loretta


On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Olaf Drümmer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I'd be interested in answers to a slight variation of the theme:
>
> It is possible to get reasonable quality transscripts from recorded video
> at a reasonable rate. What would be an easy approach to take such a a
> transscript and merge it with my video to inject the closed captioning (and
> of course have the sync fall in place/no manual tweaking, please)?
>
> Furthermore, I'd like to put both the video with closed captioning and the
> transscript as text on a web page, and have links from the transcript text
> that would make the video jump to the respective position. How would I
> achieve this?
>
> I would mostly be doing this for recorded seminars and presentations (both
> real video recording as well as screen recording). My reasoning is that
> once we can make accessibility related functionality useful for just about
> everybody (not just people with a disability or two), more traction could
> be achieved. What I hate about most videos is that I have to sequentially
> watch them to find the chunk of content I am really interest in. If I could
> quickly skim through the transscript text or search for a certain phrase, I
> could more easily just watch the portion of the video I care about. [Oh -
> and the other thing I'd love to have in ordinary video players on the web -
> let me adjust the speed.... - like for text-to-speech in a screen reader -
> but that's a different story...]
>
> Olaf
>
>
> > > >