Video file to subtitles file

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 4:11 PM Muskan Sanghai <muskansanghai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 10:57:00 AM UTC+5:30, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> > Am 29.08.20 um 13:51 schrieb Muskan Sanghai:
> > > I want to extract subtitles from a MPEG video (which does not have any previous subtitles)
> > I'm still not sure I get it. "Extract" subtitles, when they are NOT
> > there? Can it be, by any chance, that you are talking about speech
> > recognition? I.e., you want a software which understands the spoken word
> > in the movie sound and turns that into text, which can be shown as
> > subtitles? Like the "auto-generated" subtitles which youtube offers for
> > some videos.
> >
> > If so, it is a complex task and will not work overly well. I defer to
> > the experts if there are any usable speech recognitino engines for this
> > task.
> >
> > Christian
> Yes, this is what I exactly want to do. I want to create a software which understands the spoken word in the movie sound and turns that into text.
>

I recommend looking into CMU Sphinx then. I've used that from Python.

The results are highly entertaining.

ChrisA