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For popular, public content, you could split the price amongst many buyers, like Kickstarter.

braindead_in 8y ago
Here's an automated transcript to start off with. https://scribie.com/transcript/6946cef33e3c4e3596a819daaac7380329fe2ef7 https://scribie.com/transcript/6946cef33e3c4e3596a819daaac73...
- tim333 8y ago
  I had a look but the YouTube transcript is more accurate. Compare: "Why combinator has the people who wrote a mail and email?" from that and "Y Combinator has the people who wrote Yahoo Mail and Gmail" from the YouTube transcript for example.
  - braindead_in 8y ago
    Yeah, our language model needs some work. We're constantly improving our engine though. Since we are manual transcription service, we can feed back the hand-made changes by humans back into our model and re-train it. Thanks for checking it out!
    - tim333 8y ago
      No worries. You do punctuation better than youtube. I was wondering if you could do a hack which kind of combined the two results. Youtube must be doing something kind of sophisticated to get things like "Paul Buchheit" correct like doing a pre search of people connected with Paul Graham.
      - braindead_in 8y ago
        Yeah. We can actually do that. We do have a prototype of that in the works.
yesenadam 8y ago
I wish I could do this with subtitles! I hate waiting years for subtitles to TV series and obscure movies to become available. Ones in European languages mostly e.g. Cordon season 2 has been out for years, no English subs available. Latest season of Rita, out for a year, no English subs. The Colombian Ugly Betty, impossible to find many years later. I waited a couple of years for the latest season of Engrenages etc. Maybe there could be a fixed priced online, which you could contribute towards. I won't pay for movies/tv now, but I'd sure pay for subtitles! Divided between many people, it wouldn't cost much. Not sure how to ensure high quality subs. (I contributed to doing subs on viki years ago, which seemed like a good thing, but it disappeared, taking all the subtitles with it.)
- dewey 8y ago
  That already exists in a more private form, on sites specialized in smaller movies there’s usually a “subtitle pot” where people can donate their points / upload credit and the person who does the subtitles then receives that bounty once work is done. Usually they leak out to the rest of the internet pretty quickly after that.
  - yesenadam 8y ago
    Oh, I had't heard of that. I haven't consulted my friend Google yet, but could you name some of those sites? Thanks.
    - dewey 8y ago
      That's one of them: https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/weekend-post/karagarga-and-the-vulnerability-of-obscure-films https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/weekend-post/karagarg...
      - yesenadam 8y ago
        Thanks! Hmm does sound a bit inaccessible though, and for obscure classics, not really what I had in mind: "Karagarga is a members-only torrent tracker. That is to say it is a file-sharing archive closed to the public and accessible by exclusive invitation alone. These coveted invitations are given out to only the highest ranked users(VIP and Uploaders)."

Here's an automated transcript to start off with. https://scribie.com/transcript/6946cef33e3c4e3596a819daaac7380329fe2ef7 https://scribie.com/transcript/6946cef33e3c4e3596a819daaac73...

tim333 8y ago
I had a look but the YouTube transcript is more accurate. Compare: "Why combinator has the people who wrote a mail and email?" from that and "Y Combinator has the people who wrote Yahoo Mail and Gmail" from the YouTube transcript for example.
- braindead_in 8y ago
  Yeah, our language model needs some work. We're constantly improving our engine though. Since we are manual transcription service, we can feed back the hand-made changes by humans back into our model and re-train it. Thanks for checking it out!
  - tim333 8y ago
    No worries. You do punctuation better than youtube. I was wondering if you could do a hack which kind of combined the two results. Youtube must be doing something kind of sophisticated to get things like "Paul Buchheit" correct like doing a pre search of people connected with Paul Graham.
    - braindead_in 8y ago
      Yeah. We can actually do that. We do have a prototype of that in the works.

yesenadam 8y ago

I wish I could do this with subtitles! I hate waiting years for subtitles to TV series and obscure movies to become available. Ones in European languages mostly e.g. Cordon season 2 has been out for years, no English subs available. Latest season of Rita, out for a year, no English subs. The Colombian Ugly Betty, impossible to find many years later. I waited a couple of years for the latest season of Engrenages etc. Maybe there could be a fixed priced online, which you could contribute towards. I won't pay for movies/tv now, but I'd sure pay for subtitles! Divided between many people, it wouldn't cost much. Not sure how to ensure high quality subs. (I contributed to doing subs on viki years ago, which seemed like a good thing, but it disappeared, taking all the subtitles with it.)

dewey 8y ago
That already exists in a more private form, on sites specialized in smaller movies there’s usually a “subtitle pot” where people can donate their points / upload credit and the person who does the subtitles then receives that bounty once work is done. Usually they leak out to the rest of the internet pretty quickly after that.
- yesenadam 8y ago
  Oh, I had't heard of that. I haven't consulted my friend Google yet, but could you name some of those sites? Thanks.
  - dewey 8y ago
    That's one of them: https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/weekend-post/karagarga-and-the-vulnerability-of-obscure-films https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/weekend-post/karagarg...
    - yesenadam 8y ago
      Thanks! Hmm does sound a bit inaccessible though, and for obscure classics, not really what I had in mind: "Karagarga is a members-only torrent tracker. That is to say it is a file-sharing archive closed to the public and accessible by exclusive invitation alone. These coveted invitations are given out to only the highest ranked users(VIP and Uploaders)."