Tom Jacobs wrote:
i think it would be really useful if the BBC made available the
subtitles for their TV shows via the /programmes pages (or any other
accessible, searchable API).
Yes, it would be nice.
You can get access to them via a DVB card in your PC, of course, but
because they're broadcast as pre-rendered bitmaps, you'd have to OCR
them before you could do anything useful with them. A few people have
gone down this road - some friends and I gave a talk and a demo on the
subject back at Open Tech 2005.
http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/schedule/stephen_jolly.pdf
S
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