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No particular experience, but https://openai.com/blog/whisper/ seems very promising, especially if you have CUDA available. cheers, AC On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 2:12 PM Collins, Ian <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Everyone has given good ideas on this. I’ll go ahead and throw in Youtube. > It’s gotten a lot better, you can add them privately to your account and > you can export various types of caption files. > Cheers > Ian > > > -- > Ian Collins > Clinical Assistant Professor and Digital Services Librarian > University of Illinois-Chicago > > ________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Peter > Murray <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 1:08 PM > To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] video to text > > I did something like this last month for creating transcripts from podcasts > using Amazon Transcribe. Details and links to the code here: > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdltj.org%2Farticle%2Fgenerating-podcast-transcripts%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726486995687%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=CWllk0rXGpvbegPlfkCZYUquOsxFV1KiO3aAYq0u68Q%3D&reserved=0 > > > Peter > > From: Dan Johnson <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]> > Reply: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> > <[log in to unmask]> > Date: October 21, 2022 at 2:01:30 PM > To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] video to text > > If your university gives you an Office 365 account (and Notre Dame does), > Word 365 will transcribe up to 300 minutes of audio per month from a sound > file in the .wav, .mp4, .mpa, or .mp3 formats. In my own (admittedly minor) > tinkering, I've been surprised at how good the transcript is. Microsoft has > a 90 second tutorial here: < > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2Ftranscribe-your-recordings-7fc2efec-245e-45f0-b053-2a97531ecf57&data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726487151950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Wi%2BPk5mf1ktjSI1tgqk%2FTv40TMFP7fVXRZov6bI7TN0%3D&reserved=0 > >. > > If you're handy with AWS, you can also use Amazon Transcribe ( > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Ftranscribe%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726487151950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=frKDtIF5xMbqsIopPPmQggYYcklZwPAJPii6mrJJvpM%3D&reserved=0), > but that is much more involved. I have > no experience myself, though some colleagues have had success with larger > projects there. > > Best, > Dan > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 1:58 PM Lolis, John <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > I don't have technology to offer for that purpose, but if you decide to > go > > with a service, I can tell you that I've found Amara to be very > affordable, > > of excellent quality and fantastic customer service. I used them to not > > only caption videos but to also translate them from several languages. I > > couldn't have asked for a better experience with them, and that was after > > some back and forth working things out over the extra languages. > > > > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famara.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726487151950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4qn5YPnJYdLSGNg%2FEB5kCNS3s7ykYBPaDAlQgOHHHrs%3D&reserved=0 > > > > John Lolis > > Coordinator of Computer Systems > > > > 100 Martine Avenue > > White Plains, NY 10601 > > > > tel: 1.914.422.1497 > > fax: 1.914.422.1452 > > > > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwhiteplainslibrary.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726487151950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Nd3zzaVLRT59hC0oem%2FaV6OoUQcaGwtMl1AHhZ5yb9Q%3D&reserved=0 > > > > *“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that > > can’t be questioned.”* > > — Richard Feynman > > < > > > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fclick.fourhourmail.com%2F5qure95xkf7hvvo93wh2%2F7qh7h8h05vr4zrtz%2FaHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvUmljaGFyZF9GZXlubWFu&data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726487151950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5PoXbP9SBz3vN9axwZwYEC2u9LdkfTNBUTg8XsZxZA4%3D&reserved=0 > > >, > > theoretical physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 > > > > > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 at 13:20, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > Do you know of a video to text applications? I colleague asked me: > > > > > > I have four video recordings of conference sessions and wonder if > > > there is a tool or technology that will help me transcribe these > > > into the written word? > > > > > > Do y'all have any suggestions or experience in this regard? > > > > > > -- > > > Eric Morgan > > > University of Notre Dame > > > > > > > > -- > *Daniel Johnson, Ph.D.* > *English; Digital Humanities**; and Film, Television, and Theatre * > *Librarian* > *Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, **Hesburgh Libraries* > > *University of Notre Dame* > 250C Hesburgh Library > Notre Dame, IN 46556 > o: 574-631-3457 > e: [log in to unmask] >