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Off-topic but: Hooray for transcripts! I can see the benefits of being able to hear the pauses, tone, inflections, etc. but even leaving aside the deaf and hear
by peterclary 11y ago
Off-topic but: Hooray for transcripts! I can see the benefits of being able to hear the pauses, tone, inflections, etc. but even leaving aside the deaf and hearing-impaired, there are so many advantages to having the text (it's searchable, you can read it while listening to music, it's quicker to read it than to listen to it).
- Yaggo 11y agoAlso much easier to understand for us with English as secondary languge.
- miseg 11y agoThe color codings with the names of the speakers helped a lot too. Very different to an unformatted wall of text, which you'll often see with podcast transcripts.
- Terr_ 11y agoFun fact: The HTML5 video stuff has a Javascript API so that you can access the subtitle-data. This means if the subtitles are well-made, you can "re-generate" a searchable/seekable "transcript" from the same data. Example: https://gist.github.com/DHager/2e01f0b82e5d3f5a39e6 https://gist.github.com/DHager/2e01f0b82e5d3f5a39e6