Startup idea: YouTube transcripts

Posted by mudil on Friday August 24, 2012 @11:53AM
from the self-post dept.

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?

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by tilt on Friday August 24, 2012 @02:09PM (#4428808)

http://speakertext.com/ Hope it helps

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by gjulianm on Friday August 24, 2012 @01:24PM (#4428559)

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.

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by geon on Friday August 24, 2012 @01:31PM (#4428594)

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.

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by marktsears on Friday August 24, 2012 @02:33PM (#4428957)

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

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by hasenj on Friday September 07, 2012 @03:29AM (#4487969)

Not exactly the same but closely related, I think:

http://dotsub.com/

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by zzo38 on Tuesday August 28, 2012 @01:02AM (#4442222)

I would definitely prefer a text over a video.

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by tklemm on Friday August 24, 2012 @12:20PM (#4428239)

Transcripts would be cool.

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by mudil on Friday August 24, 2012 @01:26PM (#4428566)

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.

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by debacle on Friday August 24, 2012 @03:21PM (#4429183)

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

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by mapster on Friday August 24, 2012 @04:10PM (#4429399)

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.

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by tzm on Friday August 24, 2012 @05:54PM (#4429885)

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

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Re:Startup idea: YouTube transcripts by mapster on Friday August 24, 2012 @06:08PM (#4429943)

I sold the url, but I own the software. I have the app and have been considering having it hosted on a site of similar interest.

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