Ask HN: Open-source video transcribing software?

8 points·animal_spirits··8 comments

Hello all, I need to transcribe some text from a video, and would like recommendations for any software you know of that would be free to use?

Thanks!

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Some months ago I tried the Silero Models: https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models

With the audio sources I had, in English, the transcription had many mistakes. The good side is that installing and running the software worked as described in their documentation, so maybe it’s worth giving it a try by yourself.

Does it just have to be free to use, or does it have to be an open source?

Free: Just upload them to private YouTube videos and Google will transcribe it for you. You can then manually refine the captions and download the files afterward.

There is a software called Type Studio which have a free version and supports many different languages I guess.

mozillas common voice.

> mozillas common voice.

How can it be used for transcription?

In their website I only see an interface for either uploading audio or submitting transcriptions:

https://commonvoice.mozilla.org/es

The Github repo they mention (https://github.com/common-voice/common-voice) seems to be just that sample collection software. I do not see where I can download the software to transcribe audio.

Edit: All right, the speech recognition part is actually called DeepSpeech: https://opensource.com/article/22/1/voice-text-mozilla-deeps... https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech

It is dead unfortunately.

Not that i know of

You can check the commit activity on most GitHub projects related to this.

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