I have heard of people uploading media to YouTube which I believe has an
automatic captioning service. It's not perfect and it may not be a solution
depending on the media you have, but for some things, including captioning
for IR materials, I heard it works pretty well, especially since not all YT
videos have to be public.

-- 
Will Clarke
Senior Systems Administrator
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University


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?
>
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> John Wynstra
> Library Information Systems Specialist
> Rod Library
> University of Northern Iowa
> Cedar Falls, IA  50613
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