I haven't tried it yet, but the Open AI foundation recently released an open source neural net called Whisper for transcribing/translating English audio.  Here's the page:

https://openai.com/blog/whisper/

And here's an article about it:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/new-ai-model-from-openai-automatically-recognizes-speech-and-translates-to-english/

I haven't experimented with it yet, but I'm kind of interested to try it.

Will

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Dan Johnson
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2022 1:21 PM
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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]> 
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> 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/a
> HR0cHM6Ly9lbi53aWtpcGVkaWEub3JnL3dpa2kvUmljaGFyZF9GZXlubWFu
> > >,
> > 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.*
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> *Librarian*
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*Librarian*
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