Automatically create annotation layers from Youtube captions

hipstas / AudiAnnotate

Workflows for generating AV editions and exhibits using IIIF manifests by HiPSTAS and Brumfield Labs.

https://hipstas.github.io/AudiAnnotate/

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Automatically create annotation layers from Youtube captions #149

Open benwbrum opened 3 years ago

benwbrum commented 3 years ago

As we experiment with ytdl, we are learning that at least some web-hosted resources have captions associated with them already. It should be straightforward to import these and display them as an annotation layer within AudiAnnotate if the user chooses.

benwbrum commented 3 years ago

See this example of a VTT transcript auto-generated by Youtube.