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Videos from Startup School NY are now online

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Re: Videos from Startup School NY are now online

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Post by kogir »

becho wrote: post #4

Can the videos be captioned? Or at least, turn on YouTube automatic captioning please? Many of your audience are Deaf!

Is there a way to enable automatic captions? Alternately, is anyone aware of a good transcription service?

I'd like to make this happen.

Re: Videos from Startup School NY are now online

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Post by patio11 »

kogir wrote: post #11
becho wrote: post #4

Can the videos be captioned? Or at least, turn on YouTube automatic captioning please? Many of your audience are Deaf!

Is there a way to enable automatic captions? Alternately, is anyone aware of a good transcription service? I'd like to make this happen.

All of my podcasts and talks get transcribed at castingwords.com. They've got mechanical Turk on the backend, so occasionally you get a very bad paragraph or two in the middle, but their turnaround is quick, they're relatively inexpensive, and it beats the heck out of "no transcript."

Re: Videos from Startup School NY are now online

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Post by kevin »

becho wrote: post #4

Can the videos be captioned? Or at least, turn on YouTube automatic captioning please? Many of your audience are Deaf!

Quick update: we're now working to get them transcribed. It looks like it'll take a week, so please be patient with us. We're hoping to also transcribe the back catalog as well, though that'll be a long term project.

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Post by sachitgupta »

kogir wrote: post #11
becho wrote: post #4

Can the videos be captioned? Or at least, turn on YouTube automatic captioning please? Many of your audience are Deaf!

Is there a way to enable automatic captions? Alternately, is anyone aware of a good transcription service? I'd like to make this happen.

Strong recommendation for Speechpad: https://www.speechpad.com

Re: Videos from Startup School NY are now online

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Post by chid »

kogir wrote: post #11
becho wrote: post #4

Can the videos be captioned? Or at least, turn on YouTube automatic captioning please? Many of your audience are Deaf!

Is there a way to enable automatic captions? Alternately, is anyone aware of a good transcription service? I'd like to make this happen.

For youtube not really, happens automatically. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3038280?hl=en

Re: Videos from Startup School NY are now online

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Post by ValG »

patio11 wrote: post #13
kogir wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a way to enable automatic captions? Alternately, is anyone aware of a good transcription service? I'd like to make this happen.

All of my podcasts and talks get transcribed at castingwords.com. They've got mechanical Turk on the backend, so occasionally you get a very bad paragraph or two in the middle, but their turnaround is quick, they're relatively inexpensive, and it beats the heck out of "no transcript."

You should try looking into MobileWorks. Recently they've focused more on human generated lead gen, but they might still/used to do transcription as well. Their crowd is generally much more reliable than MTurk.
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