speech recognition / automated transcribing

	Re: speech recognition / automated transcribing by Ernie Santella on Aug 7, 2008 at 12:55:13 pm I would die for that too. If you find something, please post it. Ernie Santella Santella Film/Video Productions www.santellaproductions.com Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: speech recognition / automated transcribing by gary adcock on Aug 7, 2008 at 2:02:12 pm [Ernie Santella] "I would die for that too. If you find something, please post it." This function has been announced an shown as part of Premier in CS4 gary adcock Studio37 HD & Film Consultation Post and Production Workflows Inside look at the IoHD Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: speech recognition / automated transcribing by David Roth Weiss on Aug 7, 2008 at 3:54:15 pm [gary adcock] "This function has been announced an shown as part of Premier in CS4" Gary, chaeck out my response to Mark. David Roth Weiss Director/Editor David Weiss Productions, Inc. Los Angeles POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™ A forum host of Creative COW's Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums. Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: speech recognition / automated transcribing by Mark Raudonis on Aug 7, 2008 at 1:16:30 pm Even though the super secret government programs can pull a "hot" word off of an intercepted cell phone call, to my knowledge, there is no similar program available commercially. There are plenty of "talk to text" programs out there, but the all rely upon "training" the program with your own voice to achieve acceptable accuracy levels. Punctuation is a problem as well. The "dictator" must insert phrases like "period", "Comma", or "New line", to create a readable looking text. I've seen these programs used by a "shadow" dictator, meaning a person wearing headphones listens to a taped interview and simultaneously speaks into the transcription program. This works pretty well with someone trained to do it, achieving "near real time" rates. Bottom line, what you're seeking doesn't exist yet. We spend a lot of money on transcripts every year, and when I find a better way, I'll be the first to use it. Mark Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: speech recognition / automated transcribing by David Roth Weiss on Aug 7, 2008 at 3:52:47 pm [Mark Raudonis] "Bottom line, what you're seeking doesn't exist yet." Actually it does exist Mark and you can even try it out now. If you go to the Adobe Labs website you can download the beta version of SoundBooth, which has this feature. That being said, though it's probably the most interesting development for doco and reality creators to come down the pike in a long time, and though it holds great promise, let's just say, it isn't perfect just yet. I tested the beta several times and I found its accuracy to be far from desirable. It is in beta, and so hopefully that will change when the release version hits the market later this year. A reviewer from Macworld had somewhat similar findings and wrote: "The unedited results are not the kind of thing you’ll want to post as a transcript of your audio, as mistakes abound." "In its current form, Soundbooth’s transcribing feature is far from accurate." "Even if the transcription is only 50-percent accurate (and those are the kind of results I saw in initial testing), it’s likely that you’ll find enough of the text you’re after to easily navigate through the file." Personally, I did not find the reviewer's 50% accuracy concept was valid for me. I was simply unable to make use of the results. If you test it, please let me know what you find. David David Roth Weiss Director/Editor David Weiss Productions, Inc. Los Angeles POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™ A forum host of Creative COW's Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums. Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: speech recognition / automated transcribing by walter biscardi on Aug 7, 2008 at 1:26:46 pm [Nis Boye] "I'm looking for an app that can chew through video and audio files as fast as possible and give me transcript with timecodes. Anybody seen something like that? " Nothing like that, but we do work with a great transcriptionist who works directly with timecodes from Quicktime movies. She can turn around a 30 minute tape in one day easily that way. Walter Biscardi, Jr. Biscardi Creative Media HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions. STOP STARING AND START GRADING WITH APPLE COLOR Apple Color Training DVD available now! Read my Blog! Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: speech recognition / automated transcribing by David Roth Weiss on Aug 8, 2008 at 4:05:55 pm [walter biscardi] "She can turn around a 30 minute tape in one day easily that way." Gosh, I can beat that and I only type with two fingers. David Roth Weiss Director/Editor David Weiss Productions, Inc. Los Angeles POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™ A forum host of Creative COW's Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums. Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index

	Re: what about from a file by David Roth Weiss on Aug 13, 2008 at 8:25:18 pm Bob, you must have missed my post above in this thread. Adobe SoundBooth has a transcription feature using just about any video file, i.e. Quicktime files. But, as I explained, the accuracy is not great... David Roth Weiss Director/Editor David Weiss Productions, Inc. Los Angeles POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™ A forum host of Creative COW's Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums. Respond to this post   •   Return to posts index