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transcriptsJust found this lovely comm, and wanted to blab about another online caption/subtitle creator:
Fanscribed.
Fanscribed is a no-cost site designed for fanswarms to create transcripts of podcasts. It offers an "edit" view, where you can listen to and input text in 30 second chunks. There's rewind and timing info, but not a lot more: no speech-to-text to provide a starting point.
Fanscribed.com hosts the transcripts the fans create. (They also host one instance of the audio for transcription purposes, but do not serve it to other listeners.) The longest-running show using the system is MetaFilter's "Best of the Web" podcast. If you're curious about this choice, you can read this (typically rambling) MetaFilter text thread of how MetaFilter decided to go with Fanscribed.
It's definitely not as polished as Amara, and it doesn't seem to be designed to make it easy to pass a project from volunteer to paid worker (or back). It's an open-source labor of love. The person person seems to be an adept programmer, and it needs the right sort of support from the kind of people you know so well.
It could be a very useful tool where people don't have internet access all the time.
Fanscribed.
Fanscribed is a no-cost site designed for fanswarms to create transcripts of podcasts. It offers an "edit" view, where you can listen to and input text in 30 second chunks. There's rewind and timing info, but not a lot more: no speech-to-text to provide a starting point.
Fanscribed.com hosts the transcripts the fans create. (They also host one instance of the audio for transcription purposes, but do not serve it to other listeners.) The longest-running show using the system is MetaFilter's "Best of the Web" podcast. If you're curious about this choice, you can read this (typically rambling) MetaFilter text thread of how MetaFilter decided to go with Fanscribed.
It's definitely not as polished as Amara, and it doesn't seem to be designed to make it easy to pass a project from volunteer to paid worker (or back). It's an open-source labor of love. The person person seems to be an adept programmer, and it needs the right sort of support from the kind of people you know so well.
It could be a very useful tool where people don't have internet access all the time.
