[Athen] Help w\ Captioning

[Todd Schwanke]

Yes, you can export the caption file and use in other software.  But, 
the export type is "SBV" which is a caption file format fairly specific 
to YouTube.  Some caption software programs are starting to support this 
format.  Otherwise you have to convert it first.  I have found a few 
websites that do SBV to SRT (SubRip format) conversion, which is more 
widely supported.

Keep in mind:

* videos uploaded are public by default
* videos are limited to 10 minutes unless you have access to one of the 
special accounts (e.g. one per edu address) that have capabilities for 
longer videos.


On 3/11/2010 7:52 AM, Martin, Susan wrote:

> Hello- can you use the YouTube caption software to add captions and then bring that into another software program? Or does it only work in YouTube?

>

> Susan J. Martin M.Ed

> Associate Director

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Teresa Haven

> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:27 PM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

> Subject: Re: [Athen] Help w\ Captioning

>

> I haven't tried it yet, but last night on NPR I heard an interview with

> YouTube's caption mastermind.  He indicated that the new automatic

> captioning system is online and working; AND, although its

> speech-recognition system is anything but perfect, it offers a quick way

> for someone to caption a video, then go back and edit the

> transcript/caption file to clean up the errors made by the speech

> recognition process to end up with a cleanly captioned video with

> relatively little effort.   It's on my list of things to try out when I

> have a few spare minutes...

>

> Hope this helps,

> Teresa

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> Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D.

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> Disability Resource Center

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On

> Behalf Of Howard Kramer

> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:22 PM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

> Subject: [Athen] Help w\ Captioning

>

> Hello All:

>

> I have a number of videos I want to caption. I know a good deal about

> the different tools out there but I wanted to get feedback on the

> quickest way at this point, to caption material. The system that Sean&

> John demonstrated at AHG was very impressive but I don't know if this is

> open to those not affiliated with Stanford. It seems that YouTube has a

> tool for automatically generating captions or am I wrong on this.

> Anyway, thanks in advance for your feedback.

>

> -Howard

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