Video file to subtitles file

Christian Gollwitzer auriocus at gmx.de
Mon Aug 31 01:34:02 EDT 2020


Am 30.08.20 um 21:43 schrieb MRAB:
> On 2020-08-30 18:10, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
>> Well, with enough effort it is possible to build a system that is more
>> useful than "entertaining". Google did that, English youtube videos can
>> be annotated with subtitles from speech recognition. For example, try
>> this video:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYVLpC_8SQE
>>
>>
> There's not much background noise there; it takes place in a quiet room.

  It becomes a bit worse once the background music sets in, but still is 
usable. Feel free to try any other video. I think, it works with any 
video in English.

I think that for "Hollywood"-style movies you will always have a crisp 
sound of the speech. They want the viewers to listen effortlessly - 
background music is typical, "true" noise is rare.

Maybe try with this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHn4XpKA6vM

As soon as they are up in the air you have the engine sound overlaying 
the speech, and still the transcription is quite good. It sometimes 
mistakes the flapping of the engine as "applause" and misses a word or a 
sentence, but still very good.

	Christian


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