The students themselves translate those documents as part of the course, and once a consensus is reached (a given amount of students came up with the same translation) the document is returned to the submitter, who pays for its translation.
Almost like how recaptcha works :-)
We would love a good provider to enrich video with translations (for when we find a good one that offers machine transcription.)
Not yet, but could you send us an example?
Unfortunately SpeakerText doesn't offer non-post-processed prices, Koemei integrated it into their own product and VoiceBase didn't offer post-processing on request, which we would need for integration into our product.
Which format will become mainstream probably depends on HTML5 adoption, which is detailed here http://www.3playmedia.com/how-it-works/how-to-guides/html5-v... Currently WebVTT seems to be in the lead.
Those formats don't accommodate for timestamps per spoken word though, which would be possible with machine transcription and which I would pay a premium for.
It would be great if the feedback from the human workers could get reintegrated into the translation models in an online fashion so that they get better over time. I realize they're probably outsourcing their machine translation, but that would be a terrific fully integrated pipeline.