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From: Becky Reed
Date: Tue, Oct 27 2015 10:56AM
Subject: creating transcripts from timed text files
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Hi Everyone,

I am looking for insights on whether it's possible to create transcripts from timed text files. I have good, individually reviewed closed caption files. Just need to take the next step to good transcripts. My team feels like this is a totally manual process. Taking the reviewed text from the caption files, taking the timing out, removing the timing breaks, and producing a readable transcript.

I'm curious if there is any technology, service, or otherwise that can work with a part of this process? Even if editorial is required in the end, I'd like to believe there is something that might help in the beginning.

Thanks for your insight.

Becky

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Tue, Oct 27 2015 12:06PM
Subject: Re: creating transcripts from timed text files
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> Hi Everyone, I am looking for insights on whether it's possible to create transcripts from timed text files. I have good, individually reviewed closed caption files.

I would imagine that with a find and replace option and some regular expressions this process could be semi-automated quickly. Combine that with some sort of script such as Perl and it really could be automated. I haven't looked to see if something like that already exists but someone should be able to create it pretty quickly.

Jonathan

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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Tue, Oct 27 2015 5:41PM
Subject: Re: creating transcripts from timed text files
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Hello:

I wonder if this resource page, from 3Play Media, might help to point
you to DIY tools:

http://www.3playmedia.com/2015/07/06/everything-you-need-to-know-to-transcribe-video-create-closed-captions/

Note that I'm not endorsing any particular vendor, when suggesting this
page. But I will take this chance to commend 3Play Media for very
generously sharing information with the community, far beyond marketing
pitches.

Best,
Jennifer

From: Graham Armfield
Date: Wed, Oct 28 2015 3:09AM
Subject: Re: creating transcripts from timed text files
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Something like that should be really easy to create in any programming
language - certainly in PHP which I'm most familiar with.

There are a number of different timed texts formats I believe - some XML,
some plain text. Which one(s) are you using?

Regards
Graham Armfield

From: Weissenberger, Todd M
Date: Thu, Oct 29 2015 6:48AM
Subject: Re: creating transcripts from timed text files
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Becky,

You might be able to do a two-step automated conversion. I ran a TTML file through http://subtitleconverter.net/ to yield an .SRT, which I was then able to convert to a text transcript using Rev.com's Caption Converter (http://www.rev.com/captionconverter). I lost my line breaks, but otherwise it worked pretty well.

Todd

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