Automatic Captions in YouTube Videos

Already posted. See my thread. Thread merge please?
 
Nathan said:
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Anyways, sounds like either RonJaxon or Captioner
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Funny you mention that. Because it was the friend of mine who is an iPhone app developer that sent me a link to this yesterday. He was awaiting permission from the people he works for to start working on it and he said his intention was to use google voice like this does. So maybe this will end up working better then the app we where talking about.

I mean I know this is still in it's beta stages but does anyone else see the potential of this? Sure, it's not going to be perfectly accurate yet but from what I've seen it's pretty damn good. I've watched the news on TV with less accuracy to the CC. :)

But let's looks at where this can lead. Once it's more perfected we might have real time "Auto captioning" of just about any video (Movies in theaters, webcams, business presentations, etc...).

I always said that a part of me wished some of these developers would loose their hearing. Because the technology is out there. They just don't see the need for it. Now here we have a deaf person who has the knowledge and expertise to make it work so he had the drive and understanding of it's potential. My friend, the iphone app developer, said he'd love to see if he can get a hold of this guy about what he had planned. But if this progresses we might not need the iPhone app since many phones can now use google and have the right kind of web browser.

I'm excited at the possibilities with this. I look forward to it's progress.

Ron Jaxon
 
RonJaxon said:
Funny you mention that. Because it was the friend of mine who is an iPhone app developer that sent me a link to this yesterday. He was awaiting permission from the people he works for to start working on it and he said his intention was to use google voice like this does. So maybe this will end up working better then the app we where talking about.

I mean I know this is still in it's beta stages but does anyone else see the potential of this? Sure, it's not going to be perfectly accurate yet but from what I've seen it's pretty damn good. I've watched the news on TV with less accuracy to the CC. :)

But let's looks at where this can lead. Once it's more perfected we might have real time "Auto captioning" of just about any video (Movies in theaters, webcams, business presentations, etc...).

I always said that a part of me wished some of these developers would loose their hearing. Because the technology is out there. They just don't see the need for it. Now here we have a deaf person who has the knowledge and expertise to make it work so he had the drive and understanding of it's potential. My friend, the iphone app developer, said he'd love to see if he can get a hold of this guy about what he had planned. But if this progresses we might not need the iPhone app since many phones can now use google and have the right kind of web browser.

I'm excited at the possibilities with this. I look forward to it's progress.

Ron Jaxon
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Sound good. Need regular YouTube with CC (no mobile YouTube). I have my own iPhone. I will wait to listen that they still develop it.
 
Pretty neat. I tried to upload a video and use the text captioning but... well it got royally screwed up somehow. It DID put in time stamps but they weren't at the right times. I'll tweak it some more. I'm hoping it's more on my end (a good likelihood!) and not on youtube/google end. :)
 
Em903 said:
Pretty neat. I tried to upload a video and use the text captioning but... well it got royally screwed up somehow. It DID put in time stamps but they weren't at the right times. I'll tweak it some more. I'm hoping it's more on my end (a good likelihood!) and not on youtube/google end. :)
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Ensure the CC feature is on and let the google translator do the rest.
 
It works!

SQUEEEEE!!!! I did it!!! I had to get rid of my first video attempt. I think I had gotten myself way over my head, it was Lady GaGa's music video for Bad Romance and there's a lot of overlapping speech so it was hard to sort.

Soooo... instead I did one of my favorite World of Warcraft Commercials by Mr. T. What happened was this:

Had to rip the video from another user using Any Video Converter.
Upload that video.
Listen to the commercial and using Notepad typed out everything, line by line.
Uploaded that using the captioning method in the video.
Downloaded the time-stamped version of it.
Watched the video with the new captioning and critiqued.
Play and replayed the video and changed timestamps.

I'm pretty happy with it. The timestamps were a little off and I still would like to change one in particular but you guys can tell me what you think :)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F62AifDZFNQ]YouTube - World of Warcraft Commercial - Mr. T[/ame]

P.S no I can't do anything about the text size :(
 
Em903 said:
SQUEEEEE!!!! I did it!!! I had to get rid of my first video attempt. I think I had gotten myself way over my head, it was Lady GaGa's music video for Bad Romance and there's a lot of overlapping speech so it was hard to sort.

Soooo... instead I did one of my favorite World of Warcraft Commercials by Mr. T. What happened was this:

Had to rip the video from another user using Any Video Converter.
Upload that video.
Listen to the commercial and using Notepad typed out everything, line by line.
Uploaded that using the captioning method in the video.
Downloaded the time-stamped version of it.
Watched the video with the new captioning and critiqued.
Play and replayed the video and changed timestamps.

I'm pretty happy with it. The timestamps were a little off and I still would like to change one in particular but you guys can tell me what you think :)

YouTube - World of Warcraft Commercial - Mr. T

P.S no I can't do anything about the text size :(
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You did a great job! :)
 
JClarke said:
You did a great job! :)
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:ty: the one I was wanting to change is when Mr. T says "My Mohawk..." and then the Director cuts in again. It's such a short line but I couldn't add it to the previous lines without some crazy problem with the text (I'm guessing however many characters are allowed per slide). But if you guys didn't find any issues with it then maybe I just viewed it too many times :lol:

Now to start my own thread with requests for videos that don't have it :)
 
Man this is so cool.

I just added CC to one of my videos. Let me walk you through it step by step.

I had a video that shows a clip of an episode of the show MASH. I found the subtitles file to this episode on line.

Then I opened the subtitles file with Notebook and removed all the subtitles except for the portion that my clip covers. Then I removed the timing code.

So the first few lines of the original timing code in the subtitles file looked like this:

170
00:5:27,119 --> 00:11:29,087
To Margaret Houlihan.

171
00:11:30,990 --> 00:11:32,890
Tetracycline.

172
00:11:32,992 --> 00:11:37,452
- Tetracycline, tetracycline-
- Will you hury?

173
00:11:37,563 --> 00:11:40,555
I'm sory, Major, I don't read well
through my eyelids.

174
00:11:40,666 --> 00:11:44,762
I'm tired too, Captain. The sooner we can
get this done, the sooner we can go to sleep.
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I removed all the timing code and just left the spoken words. So I ended up with this:

To Margaret Houlihan.


Tetracycline.

- Tetracycline, tetracycline-
- Will you hury?


I'm sory, Major, I don't read well
through my eyelids.


I'm tired too, Captain. The soonerwe can
get this done, the sooner we can go to sleep.
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I saved this file on notebook as mashyoutube.txt

Then I fallowed the steps in the Auto Captioning video that starts at 1:30 into the video. Just do what it says to do. It did a good job at putting my captions at the right time to the video.

Here's the finished video.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVVw4IpOL2U]YouTube - M*A*S*H Clip (One of my favorite moments)[/ame]

Ron Jaxon
 
RonJaxon said:
Man this is so cool.

I just added CC to one of my videos. Let me walk you through it step by step.

I had a video that shows a clip of an episode of the show MASH. I found the subtitles file to this episode on line.

Then I opened the subtitles file with Notebook and removed all the subtitles except for the portion that my clip covers. Then I removed the timing code.

So the first few lines of the original timing code in the subtitles file looked like this:



I removed all the timing code and just left the spoken words. So I ended up with this:



I saved this file on notebook as mashyoutube.txt

Then I fallowed the steps in the Auto Captioning video that starts at 1:30 into the video. Just do what it says to do. It did a good job at putting my captions at the right time to the video.

Here's the finished video.
YouTube - M*A*S*H Clip (One of my favorite moments)

Ron Jaxon
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But there are some errors?
 
JClarke said:
Yeah, noticed some spelling typos, that's all.
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JClarke, I consider that you can work to connect hulu.com to viewing American Broadcasting Company (ABC) shows with CC from your country?
 
Chevy57 said:
JClarke, I consider that you can work to connect hulu.com to viewing American Broadcasting Company (ABC) shows with CC from your country?
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I attempted to visit there once awhile ago and I am probited to view any videos as I am outside the United States of America
 
JClarke said:
I attempted to visit there once awhile ago and I am probited to view any videos as I am outside the United States of America
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Damn it. Some foreigns can view any YouTube under Google Video w/caption.
 
Chevy57 said:
Damn it. Some foreigns can view any YouTube under Google Video w/caption.
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Thats how they can recongise the australian IP address, which is possible to be detected... :|

Other than that, youtube with cpations are fantastic.
 
I just fixed the typos in my MASH video. It wasn't the fault of the auto captioning. The typos where in the text itself.

But even with small mistakes like that. This new auto transcribing is awesome. It took me a total of about 2 minutes to add them. Now people don't have any excuse because rather then taking a few hours, it'll only take a few minutes. They don't need to add all the subtitles timing coding. And it's also great that you can download the timed code after the program does it's thing.

This is a huge step forward. I suggest to not focus on the fact that it isn't perfect yet. It's just great that it's even being worked on. That's a huge leap forward. I'm confident that from this technology having live and real time captioning will come much sooner. For example this technology will soon be used for live one on one webcam conversations. This simple fact that this is being worked on rather then just being talked about is a good indication that things are looking up for online captioning.

Ron Jaxon
 
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