Show HN: Add video subtitles on the fly from plain text

Post by Kuinox » Mon, Aug 03, 2020, 5:49 PM UTC

johnnysnow wrote: post #4

Painful site design, at least change the background. You're not doing yourself any favors with that repeating geometric background. Having your bold text as the same color as the non geometric portion of the background doesn't help either. I hope your burned in subtitles don't make use of the same design principles of anti-contrast and signal hidden in noise.

Post by TuringNYC » Mon, Aug 03, 2020, 9:58 PM UTC

ladberg wrote: post #13

TuringNYC wrote: post #3

About two years UC Berkeley was forced to take down most of their university lecture videos which were available freely and publicly due to some regulation around closed captioning availability. Presumably the cost to providing the closed captioning was considered too high. I wonder if some software and/or service provider could help get those videos back up.

I just went back to some of my Berkeley course captures and the few that I checked out had captions that looked human-generated (unless YouTube's auto-generation can handle math terminology and abbreviations fine). It's a shame that they can't release those ones publicly due to some weird legal reasons.

Post by rasz » Mon, Aug 03, 2020, 10:52 PM UTC

mercora wrote: post #8

happytoexplain wrote: post #5

The article's actual title uses the word "burn", not "add", which makes more sense. "Add video subtitles on the fly from plain text" is basically just a description of subtitles as they work today.

well, minus the on the fly part, i guess. I thought it might be semi automatic by trying to skip actually understanding spoken words but counting syllables or similar to detect accurate timing. I don't know what the workflow usually looks like for this kind of task but this one presented here doesn't look too dumb to me. even without burning them into the video.