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« on: October 23, 2018, 04:05:21 pm »

How to automatically create captions for your videos using free tools

Need to create captions for a video? You can automatically do so with Youtube and youtube-dl.

If you've ever had to manually add captions and timestamps for an extended length video, you'll understand how painstaking of a process it can be. There are various free and professional products that can recognize speech and transcribe the audio for you to manipulate with captioning software. We'll be outlining one such method using Youtube's automatic and powerful captioning AI and the free and open source software youtube-dl.

Setting expectations
Once you've created your content
Extracting the automatically added captions
Final comments
Setting expectations

I'd like to limit expectations when using any text-to-speech solution. None of them work 100% of the time. There will be transcribing mistakes that will need to be reviewed and edited. However, the bulk of the work will be transcribed just fine saving you a bunch of time and headache. Secondly, I'm assuming that you need captions fo...

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