[Athen] Help w\ Captioning

[Melanie P Thornton]

Regarding YouTube, I've played around with it a bit.   If you are trying 
to do something quickly, and you create a transcript and upload it, it 
does a pretty good job of matching up the transcript with the content. 

However, after trying to fix the errors to get it more to my 
satisfaction, I found that it was easier to just use Easy YouTube 
Caption Creator by Accessify 
(http://accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessibility-tools/easy-youtube-caption-creator/) 
to add the timings.

I do suggest it for people who would otherwise not add captions, but for 
those of us who are committed to adding captions and having them be 
clean and match up well, there is no substitution for doing the extra work.

That said, it is amazing progress...and I expect to see it become even 
better and easier.

Melanie



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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> 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.

> Supervisor, Alternate Format Program

> Disability Resource Center

> Arizona State University 

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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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