closed caption / subtitle transcript availablility
January 14, 2013 8:32 AM Subscribe
Is there a place or a way that I can download the transcripts/ closed captions / subtitles for different television broadcasts?
Like if I wanted the transcripts of the broadcasts for every NFL game played this year, would that be possible?
Or the golden globes last night...there were obviously subtitles produced, but I wonder how to get them?
Seems like this would be a trove of information.
Like if I wanted the transcripts of the broadcasts for every NFL game played this year, would that be possible?
Or the golden globes last night...there were obviously subtitles produced, but I wonder how to get them?
Seems like this would be a trove of information.
The Internet Archive's searchable TV News archive might scratch part of that itch.
posted by zippy at 9:48 AM on January 14, 2013
posted by zippy at 9:48 AM on January 14, 2013
There are companies who do this as a business - so I think it will be unlikely to find this as a cheap or free resource online.
A person or company can hire them to track any use of a name or keywords on television, by large scale data mining of CC. I could be entirely wrong, but I vaguely remember an article about the Daily Show using this sort of system to be able to find clips from all the various news outlets over an extended period of time. With that, they could put together a montage of clips showing a particular politician and his statements on a certain subject over the course of a year.
posted by shinynewnick at 11:50 AM on January 14, 2013
A person or company can hire them to track any use of a name or keywords on television, by large scale data mining of CC. I could be entirely wrong, but I vaguely remember an article about the Daily Show using this sort of system to be able to find clips from all the various news outlets over an extended period of time. With that, they could put together a montage of clips showing a particular politician and his statements on a certain subject over the course of a year.
posted by shinynewnick at 11:50 AM on January 14, 2013
The Plex guys keep a list of the various subtitle repositories on the Internet.
http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/PlexNine_PMS_Subtitles
Look under
"Obtaining Subtitle Files"
I have no idea whether they'll have NFL game subtitles, however.
posted by jgreco at 12:32 PM on January 14, 2013
http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/PlexNine_PMS_Subtitles
Look under
"Obtaining Subtitle Files"
I have no idea whether they'll have NFL game subtitles, however.
posted by jgreco at 12:32 PM on January 14, 2013
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posted by bcwinters at 9:05 AM on January 14, 2013 [1 favorite]