Video file to subtitles file

[Muskan Sanghai]

On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 11:46:15 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 4:11 PM Muskan Sanghai <muskan... 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
Okay I will try it, thank you.