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I love Lady Ada. But I wish I could just read this instead of having to watch a video.

by Lowkeyloki 7y ago

vorpalhex 7y ago
Likewise. Transcription is cheap these days!
- sametmax 7y ago
  How so ?
  - vorpalhex 7y ago
    Automated transcription can get you 80-90% of the way now, meaning hand transcription (if needed) only requires a light touch. Transcription has gone from very expensive to now submitting your video to an API and getting back your transcript in a few hours for a few dollars ($0.10 - $1 a minute). Even at a very high rate, that's only $26 for the linked video.
    - coolspot 7y ago
      Also youtube does it for every video for free. See link in the comment above.
    - jolmg 7y ago
      Does anyone know of a good offline audio transcription software on linux or an open source project that attempts to make one?
      - unfocused 7y ago
        There this python tutorial for it, but you also need ffmpeg: https://pythonbasics.org/transcribe-audio/ https://pythonbasics.org/transcribe-audio/ Not sure if that helps you or not.
        jolmg 7y ago
        The tutorial itself uses Google, but the library seems to support CMUSphinx. Its documentation seems interesting: https://cmusphinx.github.io/wiki/ https://cmusphinx.github.io/wiki/
      - opencl 7y ago
        There are a few attempts, I have no idea how good they are. And they're manual transcription only. There are several open source speech recognition systems (like Deepspeech and CMUSphinx) but there don't seem to be any user-friendly frontends for them. http://gkarsay.github.io/parlatype/ http://gkarsay.github.io/parlatype/ https://github.com/juanerasmoe/pmTrans https://github.com/juanerasmoe/pmTrans
      - Barrin92 7y ago
        mozilla has open source projects for both speech-to-text and text-to-speech, among other things https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://voice.mozilla.org/en https://voice.mozilla.org/en
    - sametmax 7y ago
      I don't know, automatic subtitles on youtube suck for anything that is not average tone, voice, speed or vocabulary. Not to mention if you don't speak english. Paying $26 for something similar doesn't feel good value. We've tried something like this during a french python conf to get subtitles for deaf people. It was impossible to even understand the result.
      - HillaryBriss 7y ago
        > ... for death people automated subtitles are bad, i agree. but, in this case, the murderer was autocorrect.
        sametmax 7y ago
        Fixed :)
        bredren 7y ago
        This added context though!
        Y_Y 7y ago
        Just like Microsoft's "double the killer" episode.
      - CamperBob2 7y ago
        Have you checked lately? Automated subtitles on YouTube are getting ridiculously good. They're currently almost as good as I am at recognizing speech, including accented speech and in many cases specialized technical terms.
        frosted-flakes 7y ago
        In my experience, they're only good when I don't need them. If the audio is clear, it's astonishingly accurate (except for the lack of punctuation). But for heavily accented speech, or if there's any background noise, or there are multiple speakers, it completely fails, and it's better to go find a pair of headphones and turn up the volume. Also, I hate how the auto-generated CC spits out one word at a time while scrolling the lines up, and how it keeps the previous caption on screen mixed in with the next one during long moments of non-speech (if the speaker isn't in frame, it's hard to know what the context is). That's not how I read—it's not how anyone reads. I would rather it showed a single block at a time, with the current word highlighted. And what's with the random "yeah yeah yeah", "[applause]", or "[music]" captions when it's just guessing? Better to put question marks than be completely wrong. lack of punctuation and capitalisation also makes informal speech quite difficult to understand sentences just run into another makes it hard to know what's referring to what gets split into unnatural sentences... you get the point. However, automated CC is good when you're trying to find a particular part of a long video, and you don't want to watch the whole thing just to find it. It's easy to skim the captions to find a relevant part.
coolspot 7y ago
https://pastebin.com/sp6FaKGj https://pastebin.com/sp6FaKGj
- deleted 7y ago
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- frosted-flakes 7y ago
  This is from the "Open Transcript" option in the menu above the subscribe button, if anyone's wondering.

I love Lady Ada. But I wish I could just read this instead of having to watch a video.

vorpalhex 7y ago

Likewise. Transcription is cheap these days!

sametmax 7y ago
How so ?
- vorpalhex 7y ago
  Automated transcription can get you 80-90% of the way now, meaning hand transcription (if needed) only requires a light touch. Transcription has gone from very expensive to now submitting your video to an API and getting back your transcript in a few hours for a few dollars ($0.10 - $1 a minute). Even at a very high rate, that's only $26 for the linked video.
  - coolspot 7y ago
    Also youtube does it for every video for free. See link in the comment above.
  - jolmg 7y ago
    Does anyone know of a good offline audio transcription software on linux or an open source project that attempts to make one?
    - unfocused 7y ago
      There this python tutorial for it, but you also need ffmpeg: https://pythonbasics.org/transcribe-audio/ https://pythonbasics.org/transcribe-audio/ Not sure if that helps you or not.
      - jolmg 7y ago
        The tutorial itself uses Google, but the library seems to support CMUSphinx. Its documentation seems interesting: https://cmusphinx.github.io/wiki/ https://cmusphinx.github.io/wiki/
    - opencl 7y ago
      There are a few attempts, I have no idea how good they are. And they're manual transcription only. There are several open source speech recognition systems (like Deepspeech and CMUSphinx) but there don't seem to be any user-friendly frontends for them. http://gkarsay.github.io/parlatype/ http://gkarsay.github.io/parlatype/ https://github.com/juanerasmoe/pmTrans https://github.com/juanerasmoe/pmTrans
    - Barrin92 7y ago
      mozilla has open source projects for both speech-to-text and text-to-speech, among other things https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech https://voice.mozilla.org/en https://voice.mozilla.org/en
  - sametmax 7y ago
    I don't know, automatic subtitles on youtube suck for anything that is not average tone, voice, speed or vocabulary. Not to mention if you don't speak english. Paying $26 for something similar doesn't feel good value. We've tried something like this during a french python conf to get subtitles for deaf people. It was impossible to even understand the result.
    - HillaryBriss 7y ago
      > ... for death people automated subtitles are bad, i agree. but, in this case, the murderer was autocorrect.
      - sametmax 7y ago
        Fixed :)
        bredren 7y ago
        This added context though!
      - Y_Y 7y ago
        Just like Microsoft's "double the killer" episode.
    - CamperBob2 7y ago
      Have you checked lately? Automated subtitles on YouTube are getting ridiculously good. They're currently almost as good as I am at recognizing speech, including accented speech and in many cases specialized technical terms.
      - frosted-flakes 7y ago
        In my experience, they're only good when I don't need them. If the audio is clear, it's astonishingly accurate (except for the lack of punctuation). But for heavily accented speech, or if there's any background noise, or there are multiple speakers, it completely fails, and it's better to go find a pair of headphones and turn up the volume. Also, I hate how the auto-generated CC spits out one word at a time while scrolling the lines up, and how it keeps the previous caption on screen mixed in with the next one during long moments of non-speech (if the speaker isn't in frame, it's hard to know what the context is). That's not how I read—it's not how anyone reads. I would rather it showed a single block at a time, with the current word highlighted. And what's with the random "yeah yeah yeah", "[applause]", or "[music]" captions when it's just guessing? Better to put question marks than be completely wrong. lack of punctuation and capitalisation also makes informal speech quite difficult to understand sentences just run into another makes it hard to know what's referring to what gets split into unnatural sentences... you get the point. However, automated CC is good when you're trying to find a particular part of a long video, and you don't want to watch the whole thing just to find it. It's easy to skim the captions to find a relevant part.

coolspot 7y ago

https://pastebin.com/sp6FaKGj https://pastebin.com/sp6FaKGj

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frosted-flakes 7y ago
This is from the "Open Transcript" option in the menu above the subscribe button, if anyone's wondering.