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Re: Hebrew autocaptions

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From: Sarah Ferguson
Date: Oct 1, 2018 12:04PM

Thanks, Amanda!


On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 2:02 PM Amanda J. Rush < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> There's not a fully automated solution for Hebrew captions, but you can
> use CMU Sphinx toolkit coupled with feeding the audio in and using that
> as the source to let speech recognition convert the speech to text.
> Then, correct as necessary, (CMU Sphinx is pretty good with Hebrew so
> there shouldn't be overly much correction needed provided the audio is
> clear), and then use the recognized text to manually generate your
> caption files.
>
>
> Hope this is at least somewhat helpful,
>
>
> Amanda
>
>
>
> On 10/1/2018 1:08 PM, Sarah Ferguson wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a site that would provide autocaption for Hebrew
> video?
> > Youtube does not support Hebrew. We have a bunch of student content that
> > they want to post online and I know the students can't pay to have their
> > videos captioned. If they could add Hebrew autocaptions at a minimum
> > (preferably the site would allow for editing the errors captions), that
> > would be a step in the right direction.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sarah
> >
> > Sarah Ferguson
> > > > > > > > > > > > >