What is the mechanism used for an "Automatically Generated Transcript"?...
for example, scroll down at
http://audio.wrko.com/a/70575683/no-justice-in-wellesley.htm

We've developed the beginning of project still incomplete to caption the
public meetings of Boston City Council broadcast on the web for folks hard
of hearing.


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 4:16 PM, John Wynstra <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I have been asked to find out whether there are software or hardware
> solutions for on-the-fly closed captioning.  We currently work with
> University IT production house on campus to perform this task.  I'm not
> involved in any aspect of this at this time, but have been asked to
> investigate.
> Workflow is like this:
> 1) purchase a separate VHS copy of movie for captioning purpose (license
> issues I believe)
> 2) view show and write a transcript (probably time consuming)
> 3) Campus IT production creates a closed captioned digital copy using
> transcript and movie.
> This is costly and time consuming for what often amounts to a single
> viewing of an education resource that is not closed captioned out of the
> box.
> So basically, I'm asking if there is a "magic black box" that will allow us
> to  bypass steps 1,2,and 3.  Just play the VHS and caption it on the fly
> using voice recognition software and maybe a cray supercomputer on the back
> end or even IBM's Watson if it is not playing jeopardy or going to school.
> Thoughts?
> John Wynstra
> Library Information Systems Specialist
> Rod Library
> University of Northern Iowa
> Cedar Falls, IA  50613
> wynstra at uni.edu <[log in to unmask]>
> 319 273-6399 <%28319%29273-6399>
>