YouTube added a cool feature for videos with closed captions: you can now click on the "transcript" button to expand the entire listing. If you click on a line, YouTube will show the excerpt from the video corresponding to the text. If you use your browser's find feature, you can even search inside the video. Here's
an example of video that includes a transcript.
YouTube lets you upload a transcript file for a video and it can
automatically generate the appropriate timestamps. "YouTube uses experimental speech recognition technology to provide automatic timing for your English transcript. Automatic timing creates a caption file that you can download."
{ Thanks, Bogdan. }
hey, thanks for telling people about this. we released it quietly last week and excited to see people using it.
ReplyDeleteour goal is to make every video accessible and useful to every youtube user, so the transcript work is an effort in that direction.
if folks have any comments or suggestions pls let us know!
hunter, YouTube Product Manager
Hi Hunter, The youtube transcripts on the videos are terribly incorrect. How do you plan to make these more accurate?
DeleteGreat feature! Especially taking into account that transcripts are searchable. To make them even more searchable I would like to have a possibility to search ALL youtube transcripts through google search engine.
DeleteThank you for listing!
Hi, really like the automatic transcript but it can generate interesting text at times... I would like to be able to correct the transcript on my videos. How can I do that , or download the transcript as editable text, correct and upload? Thanks, Rachael
DeleteI've been watching some stand up comedy and the transcriipts are even funnier! Who does them?
DeleteMy question is: Do youtube transcripts work on mobile platforms. as of today 7/2/13.? Thanx.
DeleteI came across this feature earlier in the week and sent it to a few mates, they all thought it was very handy.
ReplyDeleteThis will be a huge win for YouTube if they can enable the transcript to be indexed by Google search, it'll make finding great video content that much easier.
Pretty cool. I still prefer the implementation that ProTranscript.com offers. Though, YouTube's solution is free but I can only wonder how good their voice recognition technology is.
ReplyDeleteI discovered the transcript feature, cool! Would like to have this feature for embedded videos too! That would be really great.
ReplyDeleteYYYEEEESSSS. For all those 60-minute lecture videos posted on YouTube (see also: Google TechTalks), this feature is absolutely game changing. Killer =) I just saw this today, and I'm more excited about this than the iPhone 4!
ReplyDeleteVIVID Books also does this for YouTube vids.
ReplyDeleteExample...
http://www.vivid-books.com/reader.htm#2165
Dblclick on word in transcript to jump.
Includes table of contents for navigation. Instead of transcript being one gigantic paragraph, it can be broken into sections. Can bookmark sections within the transcript as well.
Searches can be done across videos.
videocrux.com is a video site which generates a table of content for the video and lets you search inside a video. Here is an example http://www.videocrux.com/video/26526/Hundreds-race-for-iPhone-4-as-it-debuts-in-Japan
ReplyDeleteWow, this is free? Up until now, I've been using protranscript.com for interactive transcripts.
ReplyDeleteIs there a way to link to a video with this on by default? I'm thinking like with the deep linking, where you can specify the time to start at, a parameter so the page would load with the interactive transcript open.
ReplyDeleteTranscripts are cool, but using it for subtitles is cooler. Just found a German video series that used to be posted with English subtitles, but those videos have since disappeared. However, now the German version has the subtitles available via Interactive Transcripts. This is beyond awesome.
ReplyDeletecheck out a solution to enable interactive transcripts for embedded YouTube videos here -
ReplyDeletehttp://srt2html5.blogspot.com/p/interactive-transcripts.html
question: is this at all practical for transcribing video that is subject to confidentiality agreements (ie stuff that hasn't aired yet).
ReplyDeletei am completely new to transcribing, i just had a chance to pick up some work but getting set up has been a disaster. i'm searching for a software to bypass the nonsense i've been running into with the vpedal free plugins.
it doesn't even work right! why is there only one comment saying that it's inaccurate? It's not a good program!
DeleteThis transcribing system doesn't work. No wonder it's free.
DeleteIt's wonderful, but YouTube, I don't see a way of showing the 'transcript' button when viewing the video in my channel. For example, compare http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy2HJuDvq8 (transcript button visible, but not in our channel), with this http://www.youtube.com/user/CBMworldwide#p/a/u/1/ioy2HJuDvq8 (in our channel, but no transcript button)
ReplyDeleteHow can I download The video with the transcript text.. for a later view
ReplyDeletehow come the Interactive Transcript is'nt on ALL YouTube videos?
ReplyDeleteHere is an example of how 'speech recognition' can give faulty "Interactive transcript"
ReplyDeleteThe original text:
This is the daily routine closing ceremony of members of mini forest laughter club, J P Nagar, Bangalore, India. First they gather in two files facing each other. Then they light imaginary fire and throw all their worries into that and burn them. The fire is doused soon after. Now they pluck imaginary flowers form a tree and sprinkle them on each other. Each ritual is followed by clapping of hands and shouting Ho, Ho, Ha, Ha, Ha. This is followed by placing both their palms on the head and saying loudly, "let us learn all good things from each other"
And, the transcript:
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this is the daily routine closing ceremony as members of mini forest and
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after club j_p_ mcgrath bangalore
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first they gather in june files facing each other
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and in nineteen ninety nine five intro although worries into that tuned burden
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defined as ballast soon often
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now they talk imaginary flowers for treatment springs gordon on each other
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each ritual is followed by clapping of hands and shouting poem
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hahahaha power this is followed by placing broken homes on the head and
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saying about the register and all good things from each other
There is long way to go....
How can i deactivate this feature on my video
ReplyDeleteGreat new feature! Can I correct errors to the transcripts?
ReplyDeleteGreat feature! My clients have been asking that I this.
ReplyDeleteThere are some errors to the text. How can I fix these?
And yet another thing. I would like to have a "copy text" feature from transcription interactive window, just like in ordinary text editor.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
Love the concept of interactive transcripts :-) but you do get some odd transcribing at times! How can we either correct the transcript in youtube or download the transcript as a correctable text file as a basis and then upload?
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/F4sTPRZCRRY
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I’m sorry, this feature is atrocious, especially with videos featuring American narrators. The transcripts are seriously horrendous, e.g. ‘acrylic painting’ being rendered as ‘credit rating’, and ‘we get ahead of ourselves’ as ‘we get a hotbed of ourselves’.
ReplyDeleteThis is actually endemic.
Ridiculous!
how can i edit/fix misheard words in interactive transcripts on
ReplyDeleteyoutube?
Two must have features:
ReplyDeleteEdit- let collaborate
Search - I want to search ALL transcripts for specific phrases.
Then make me an API so that I can port search results to my language learning software. that would be awesome