Re: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

2013-02-07 Thread MJ Ray
Joe Hourcle If you watch most news programs these days, they seem to use some sort of automatic closed captioning, as it's just awful. [...] They're done by having someone speaking into a voice-recognition system tuned to their voice while they're watching and listening to the broadcast. A

Re: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

2013-02-07 Thread John Wynstra
Thanks to all who gave input. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:31 AM, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: Joe Hourcle If you watch most news programs these days, they seem to use some sort of automatic closed captioning, as it's just awful. [...] They're done by having someone speaking into a

[CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

2013-02-06 Thread John Wynstra
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.

Re: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

2013-02-06 Thread Bernadette Houghton
: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

2013-02-06 Thread Salazar, Christina
State University, Channel Islands 805/437-3198 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of John Wynstra [john.wyns...@uni.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 1:16 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed

Re: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

2013-02-06 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 6, 2013, at 4:16 PM, John Wynstra 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

2013-02-06 Thread don warner saklad
What is the mechanism used for an Automatically Generated Transcript?... for example, scroll down at http://audio.wrko.com/a/70575683/no-justice-in-wellesley.htm We've developed the beginning of project still incomplete to caption the public meetings of Boston City Council broadcast on the web

Re: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

2013-02-06 Thread David Friggens
It seems there's also an 'OpenSubtitles' player which isn't resitricted to educational institutions, but as it's all torrent files and looks like many other torrent trackers, I'm afraid to download them (for fear it's got the video included). Subtitle files are small - the text plus cues for

Re: [CODE4LIB] On-the-fly Closed Captioning

2013-02-06 Thread Will Clarke
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