Don't Stop Auto-Transcribing Tomorrow
 

Has anyone tried Youtube's new "Transcribe Audio" feature?... It uses Google's Speech recongition technology to supposedly supply subtitles to videos... Needless to say they get it wrong quite often, but with hilarious side-effects!

I've been in fits of laughter watching the Don't Stop Documentary!... It has brilliant gems such as John saying:
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You have to select the Transcribe Audio function by clicking the little CC button on the bottom right of the video... It may not show up here, but does on youtube :blob2:

This is so funny! The captions are so inaccurate. Hopefully this technology will improve cause it would be nice to just read what the audio is on a youtube video esp if you can't have the sound on or up to loud.

You mean Christine didn't really say, "July it was when it's completed viewpoints sick spanning penis dot com"?? :lol:

:laugh: You don't know Jack!

Hey ya know, maybe this service can be used to finally find out what the hell Stevie is saying at the end of the Sisters of the Moon Mirage video!!:laugh:

Hold on, I gotta test this out now, but I can't find the CC button anywhere :(

You have to view it on Youtube, not the embedded videos.

It's in red, just to the left of the resolution on the bottom right of the video. Hover your cursor over it, and choose BETA when it gives you a choice.

Sorry I'm not seeing anything like that. Do I need to update flash or something?

It's not an option on every video.

I tried several of the SOTM videos and didn't see that feature available. Of course I didn't mind having to watch SOTM live so many times! :)

It seems to be on alot of the interview type videos, though...

I thought it was YouTube telling me "Cassie, quit ignoring the Flash and Java updates that pop up every time you turn on or restart your laptop, Windows 7 won't just do it for you like practically everything else", but apparently, it's not avaliable on that vid. Too bad, I wanted to see it :(

Hmmm.

It's not available for every video, but it is ( obviously ) for the Don't Stop doc. It's not "in" the video, but like in the frame...pause button, volume and time on the left - screen size ( lots of arrows ) on the right, above number of views? You should see the screen resoulution ( 360 ) on that same bar, and the CC just left of that.

I'm not sure if updating flash would help or not, but it's definitely worth a try :nod:

I bet they didn't have closed captioning for the Mirage video. Although, that would be hilarious to see what they came up with.