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Thank you, Peter Murray, for the fascinating AWS Transcribe writeup. In case someone is interested in going down that route, I did have success, some years ago, taking a JSON file someone else had generated from AWS Transcribe, and converting it into a very readable .docx. It requires only a simple two-line Python script with the tscribe library. Information here: https://github.com/kibaffo33/aws_transcribe_to_docx On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 2:10 PM Peter Murray < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > I did something like this last month for creating transcripts from podcasts > using Amazon Transcribe. Details and links to the code here: > https://dltj.org/article/generating-podcast-transcripts/ > > > 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://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/transcribe-your-recordings-7fc2efec-245e-45f0-b053-2a97531ecf57 > >. > > If you're handy with AWS, you can also use Amazon Transcribe ( > https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/), 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://amara.org/ > > > > John Lolis > > Coordinator of Computer Systems > > > > 100 Martine Avenue > > White Plains, NY 10601 > > > > tel: 1.914.422.1497 > > fax: 1.914.422.1452 > > > > https://whiteplainslibrary.org/ > > > > *“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that > > can’t be questioned.”* > > — Richard Feynman > > < > > > > https://click.fourhourmail.com/5qure95xkf7hvvo93wh2/7qh7h8h05vr4zrtz/aHR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvUmljaGFyZF9GZXlubWFu > > >, > > 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] > -- *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]