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The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by soperj »

recuter wrote: post #27
jerrysievert wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who needs closed captioning at this point in their life, but can still understand most things, let me tell you how bad closed captioning is. I would not rely on cc to be more than 65% accurate.

I am sorry and surprised to hear that. I would think especially now it wouldn't be too hard to auto generate a good portion. My experience is very limited but sometimes people ask me to turn on subtitles and they are usually perfectly fine, even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate?

Honestly, a lot of the free internet ones are better.

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by pyoeos »

recuter wrote: post #12
OJFord wrote: post #11

Is this 'just' an insane amount of manual effort? I'm not particularly up on ML, but suspected it at first partly just because 'insane amount of manual effort', but also because many seem clipped too short. But the repo makes it seem very much just like a manual clip collection; acknowledges a 'listicle' of Wilson 'wow' films with 'wow' counts (slight reduction in novel manual effort.. but no timestamps).

A true fan would have all of his films downloaded including the closed captions.

Closed captions on blu-rays and DVDs are stored as bitmap images, so it wouldn't be possible to search those, although I'm sure the scripts are somewhere on the internet.

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by jonahx »

Just out of curiosity:

Does something like this fall under fair use because the clips are short? At what point would it not? Say this site became viral and was making money off ads? Would it become a copyright violation at that point?

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by recuter »

jerrysievert wrote: post #29
recuter wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am sorry and surprised to hear that. I would think especially now it wouldn't be too hard to auto generate a good portion. My experience is very limited but sometimes people ask me to turn on subtitles and they are usually perfectly fine, even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate?

> even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate these typically are the best available, but not always quite right. the cc provided by wgbh are usually pretty good as well, but they are mission focused on delivering good closed captioning - it's just that not everyone wants to use them (or they can't schedule? not sure) unfortunately, once you leave those two, it's a craps s…

You ever try google docs voice dictation? It is surprisingly good, I think they pushed an update recently. I know it isn't quite the same thing but it seems like such a solvable problem considering they have all the bits.

Youtube CC is hit or miss but sometimes is perfect. I figure a narrow domain like live sports is immanently solvable. Maybe it is time to promote audio captchas. Hmm. This is a bummer, thank you for sharing, would not have guessed.

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by recuter »

pyoeos wrote: post #33
recuter wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A true fan would have all of his films downloaded including the closed captions.

Closed captions on blu-rays and DVDs are stored as bitmap images, so it wouldn't be possible to search those, although I'm sure the scripts are somewhere on the internet.

Can just OCR them, although you should just watch all of them manually for fun like I'm doing with Nick Cage.

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by amamenko »

soperj wrote: post #28

Got one where the video didn't work properly: [{"movie":"The Big Year","year":2011,"release_date":"2011-10-14","director":"David Frankel","character":"Kenny Bostick","movie_duration":"01:43:09","timestamp":"01:08:23","full_line":"Wow, and here I thought I was the bomb at 728.","current_wow_in_movie":3,"total_wows_in_movie":3,"poster":" https://images.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/pCjGOhbTCQVjLRN9zT... }]

Hmm, seems to work fine for me. Which video dimensions didn't work for you, 1080p, 720p, 480p, or 360p?

Re: The Owen Wilson Wow API

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Post by amamenko »

OJFord wrote: post #11

Is this 'just' an insane amount of manual effort? I'm not particularly up on ML, but suspected it at first partly just because 'insane amount of manual effort', but also because many seem clipped too short. But the repo makes it seem very much just like a manual clip collection; acknowledges a 'listicle' of Wilson 'wow' films with 'wow' counts (slight reduction in novel manual effort.. but no timestamps).

100% manual effort, you're right. Took me about three weeks to compile all the clips and data in my spare time and upload them all to Contentful. I'm aware of three clips that others had told me to make a bit longer - I Spy, Drillbit Taylor (second wow), Shanghai Knights (third wow.) If there are others, feel free to let me know, the more input, the better.
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