Captioning videos
April 10, 2020 9:11 AM Subscribe
My organization is moving online and will be doing a series of webinars and videos for the public. I want to get them captioned for when the recordings end up posted on Youtube - how do I do this?
Do I send the videos to a company? Is there an app I could use? Anything to look out for? These will not be scripted videos/webinars. Any advice on process and/or companies would be welcome!
Do I send the videos to a company? Is there an app I could use? Anything to look out for? These will not be scripted videos/webinars. Any advice on process and/or companies would be welcome!
Do you know what platform you'll be using? Both Zoom and Google Hangouts Meet have the option for auto captioning.
posted by assenav at 12:45 PM on April 10, 2020
posted by assenav at 12:45 PM on April 10, 2020
First - thanks for considering folks who use captioning! I work in the field of digital accessibility - and youtube captioning is better than nothing, an amazing free resource. But it's not a professional solution for something your organization to rely on in conveying its message.
I have used Captionsync, and they provide reasonably prized professional results. And you have several options on the price/speed tradeoff. I have found their 2 business day work ideal. You can take your video - and on a mac simply export the audio as an m4p file and then load that into the Captionsync website. You will want the very finished video - changing timestamps and caption syncing is its own hassle.
My office evaluated last year several machine/AI tools and found them all to be lacking, and not particularly cheap. Fast though. Our presentations are from a variety of speakers using a variety of different technology, not scripted, and the machines frequently misunderstood, especially any jargon (which the humans will highlight if they don't understand). Our most critical problem was when the machine inverting the meaning of what the speaker was saying, claiming that a fortune 100 company would let disabled staff burn to death in the stair way. So very very bad.
posted by zenon at 1:44 PM on April 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
I have used Captionsync, and they provide reasonably prized professional results. And you have several options on the price/speed tradeoff. I have found their 2 business day work ideal. You can take your video - and on a mac simply export the audio as an m4p file and then load that into the Captionsync website. You will want the very finished video - changing timestamps and caption syncing is its own hassle.
My office evaluated last year several machine/AI tools and found them all to be lacking, and not particularly cheap. Fast though. Our presentations are from a variety of speakers using a variety of different technology, not scripted, and the machines frequently misunderstood, especially any jargon (which the humans will highlight if they don't understand). Our most critical problem was when the machine inverting the meaning of what the speaker was saying, claiming that a fortune 100 company would let disabled staff burn to death in the stair way. So very very bad.
posted by zenon at 1:44 PM on April 10, 2020 [1 favorite]
You can also consider rev.com they do great work, quick, not too expensive.
posted by seawallrunner at 7:48 PM on April 10, 2020
posted by seawallrunner at 7:48 PM on April 10, 2020
If you're already planning to host the videos on YouTube, try uploading a short video so you can see if you like their (free) transcription tools. I have found them to be workable with videos that have good, clear audio although they always need cleanup e.g., jargon, punctuation, capitalization, homonyms.
posted by ElKevbo at 8:12 PM on April 10, 2020
posted by ElKevbo at 8:12 PM on April 10, 2020
YouTube auto captions can also be corrected manually.
posted by garbanzilla at 8:48 AM on April 11, 2020
posted by garbanzilla at 8:48 AM on April 11, 2020
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