Startup idea: YouTube transcripts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428145

by mudil • 14 years ago

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On our blog (Medgadget.com) we embed lots of videos. Unfortunately, we don't have time to create transcripts under the videos. As everyone knows, transcripts are super useful: most people would rather read a transcript and then check the video, then watch a video to begin with. It would be nice to have a service that provides a convenient way to insert a code that generates a transcript just under the embedded YouTube.

Am I right or am I wrong?

tklemm• 14 years ago

Transcripts would be cool.

mudil• 14 years ago

Say, I subscribe to this service. There are lots of youtube videos out there. I pay for each transcript. So, once I embed a code, a human being transcribes the video, and transcript shows up. The system can be setup so posts in draft/pending mode in WordPress tell the service that a transcript needs to be generated.

debacle• 14 years ago

Make it a transcription market - give the transcriptors rights and royalties to their transcriptions.

mapster2• 14 years ago

I wrote a small tool to convert videos to PDF notes, but it is offline for the meantime. Written in Flex. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7JCg5fGho Teachers and students mostly use it. Its free.

tzm• 14 years ago

Nice. Is this app available? The Vidinotes site is down.

gjulianm• 14 years ago

It would be really nice. The problem is to generate the transcript. Even YouTube speech recognition system is crap when there's not a perfect, clear sound. Maybe you could use the transcripts that are already on YouTube when the uploader has created it, but of course it wouldn't be so useful.

geon• 14 years ago

Are you thinking of a service to automate the paperwork for a staff of human transcribers? The state of the art of computer transcription is even worse than computer translation.

tilt• 14 years ago

http://speakertext.com/ Hope it helps

marktsears• 14 years ago

http://speakertext.com offers this I think. Their captionbox is pretty slick.

zzo38• 14 years ago

I would definitely prefer a text over a video.

hasenj• 14 years ago

Not exactly the same but closely related, I think:

http://dotsub.com/

Startup idea: YouTube transcripts

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