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I have a question: I have 200-300 hours of audio recordings of interviews. I an using Otter.ai to automate transcription, and for each recording I export a ".vt
by vjulian 3y ago
I have a question: I have 200-300 hours of audio recordings of interviews. I an using Otter.ai to automate transcription, and for each recording I export a ".vtt" file of the transcript.
What I'd like to do is create a type of ebook of all these transcripts, where if I click on a word, then the corresponding audio will start playing from roughly the same point in time within the interview.
Otter can do this already (if I'm online and logged in to their website), but I don't want to be tied to their website forever. I'd like to have a local copy that can perform similarly. Amazon ebooks can do this as well, I believe, where there is a corresponding verbatim audiobook. However, this project of mine is purely personal. I won't be selling my audio recordings or transcripts.
Any advice? Could software discussed here be helpful in what I'm trying to accomplish?
- akx 3y agoThis software won't help you. If you already have a .vtt, this is not a hard exercise to do e.g. entirely in a browser: parse the .vtt (they're simple text), lay out the text as you like with each segment being a clickable element (e.g. a link), and hook that up to seek an `<audio>` element to where you like.
- vjulian 3y agoThank you. I am not technical to that extent myself to implement it, but I know enough to understand very well what you mean. I’ll hire a contractor, and this helps me communicate effectively.
- akx 3y agoThis would be a less-than-an-hour hack/prototype for a competent frontend engineer, FWIW.