[CEUD-ICT] YouTube automatic captioning

[Simius Puer]

Well, that video is not the best great example...a very scientific language
is being used and I'm not surprised it struggled.

I thought one of the funniest demos was actually a video by one of the
developers of the auto-captioning explaining how it worked.  I don't have
the link handy but it was hilarious to see the translation, and again - the
guy was speaking pretty clearly.

"However, I wonder whether it would cut down the work involved, by creating
an editable first draft as part of an 'automated' rather than an 'automatic'
caption production process."

>From experience working in a similar area I doubt this - it's often harder
to check and correct a mess than it is to begin afresh.  The result is a
task that takes longer than it should and a often with a higher error rate.
A good audio-typist can rip through a video in no time at all - the time
taken is usually equal to that of the video itself.

Still, all these technologies have to start somewhere, eh?


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On 15 March 2010 13:07, Mark Magennis <Mark.magennis at ncbi.ie> wrote:

> I finally got round to looking at an example of this. If you're looking to
> rely on it, it's terrible!
>
> Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity#p/u/1/Xt09jVssi7k.
> Click on the CC button below and to the right of the video and choose
> Transcribe Audio.
>
> He's speaking quite clearly but the results of the speech to text are more
> or less useless out of the box. They're actually quite amusing in places. It
> even manages to translate the musical intro as "you".
>
> However, I wonder whether it would cut down the work involved, by creating
> an editable first draft as part of an 'automated' rather than an 'automatic'
> caption production process.
>
> Mark
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