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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? > > -- > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > John Wynstra > Library Information Systems Specialist > Rod Library > University of Northern Iowa > Cedar Falls, IA 50613 > [log in to unmask] > (319)273-6399 > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> >