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WWDC 2012 Session Transcription Contribution #13

Closed mattt closed 10 years ago

mattt commented 10 years ago

Help Transcribe the WWDC 2012 Sessions!

Apple did a great job transcribing the sessions for this past WWDC, but there's still a ton of content trapped inside videos from previous years.

If you appreciate the convenience of having all of the content on ASCIIwwdc readily available to you, then consider helping out by transcribing some of these past sessions (since 2012 Sessions are the most in-demand and relevant, we're starting with those).

After you get the hang of it, you should be able to crank out a transcription in near real-time. And by taking the time to type everything out, you'll know the source material better than you could ever imagine.

How to Contribute

Select a session video on Amara
Choose the English transcription on the left sidebar
(or click "Be the first to create subtitles!" if it doesn't exist yet)
Use the in-browser widget to transcribe the video

mattt commented 10 years ago

@LK @gabek Apologies for the back-and-forth on this. After another hour of trying to wrangle Dotsub, I finally gave up. On the plus side, this new site, Amara, appears to allow transcription without an account, and has better tooling, as well!

ghost commented 10 years ago

@mattt Amara looks really cool! How can we get started transcribing?

Edit: Whoops, just saw the description, sorry.

Arkaaito commented 10 years ago

asciiwwdc was hugely helpful, and I'm thrilled to see it expand to cover past years. So I'd love to help while I have some free time over the weekend!

But first I want to check to make sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I notice the videos I'm most interested in already have some subtitles, but only for a few lines at the start of the video. Can I just jump in and start adding subtitles to any of those? Or should I hold off on it, since it appears another user has started them?

CameronBanga commented 10 years ago

Has anyone tried throwing the audio through Dragon Dictate? I'm writing a book currently and loved the dictation feature, but I don't have much experience with it's transcription feature. But that being said, may be a way to automate some to start and get a script to start working with and then edit?

mattt commented 10 years ago

@CameronBanga Yes, it doesn't work. 30-40% accuracy at best, unfortunately.