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

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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&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726486995687%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=CWllk0rXGpvbegPlfkCZYUquOsxFV1KiO3aAYq0u68Q%3D&amp;reserved=0


Peter

From: Dan Johnson <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]>
Reply: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: October 21, 2022 at 2:01:30 PM
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
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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&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726487151950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Wi%2BPk5mf1ktjSI1tgqk%2FTv40TMFP7fVXRZov6bI7TN0%3D&amp;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&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726487151950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=frKDtIF5xMbqsIopPPmQggYYcklZwPAJPii6mrJJvpM%3D&amp;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&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726487151950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=4qn5YPnJYdLSGNg%2FEB5kCNS3s7ykYBPaDAlQgOHHHrs%3D&amp;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&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726487151950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Nd3zzaVLRT59hC0oem%2FaV6OoUQcaGwtMl1AHhZ5yb9Q%3D&amp;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&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cicoll%40UIC.EDU%7C350fd6dd012149735a6808dab38f7870%7Ce202cd477a564baa99e3e3b71a7c77dd%7C0%7C0%7C638019726487151950%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=5PoXbP9SBz3vN9axwZwYEC2u9LdkfTNBUTg8XsZxZA4%3D&amp;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
> >
>


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*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*
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