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DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

@CaribenxMarciaX my good friend @ajroach42 has been using a tool that does a lot of the upfront work for you so you only need to clean it up a bit but I don't remember the name of the tool this early in my day haha

11 Nov 2022 at 12:57 | Wall-to-wall | Open on toot-lab.reclaim.technology
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Eloísa & them Seagulls

@djsundog @CaribenxMarciaX @ajroach42 I also know of a couple of good ones but Marcia said no generated ones. :x

11 Nov 2022 at 12:58 | Open on masto.pt
PVs- Artist Marcia X

@eloisa @djsundog @ajroach42 i say tht bc someone said that generated ones were no good when the film first premiered

so i thought it best not to use them...

11 Nov 2022 at 12:59 | Open on scholar.social
DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

@CaribenxMarciaX @eloisa @ajroach42 I think that's what Andrew found as well, but this one gets you to 80-90% good quickly and allows you to fine-tune the output captions manually to get it to the quality/accuracy you desire.

11 Nov 2022 at 13:02 | Open on toot-lab.reclaim.technology
aschmitz

@djsundog @CaribenxMarciaX @eloisa @ajroach42 Yeah, I've been doing a ton of automatic transcriptions using Whisper (the tool Sundog is talking about) for a variety of videos in the Internet Archive as part of a test run of them. They're not perfect (especially with some names), but they are an excellent starting point, and very fast (and effectively free) to generate. If you want to give it a try, you can throw me a video file link and I'll happily send you some subtitle files.

11 Nov 2022 at 14:49 | Open on ostatus.lardbucket.org
aschmitz

@djsundog @CaribenxMarciaX @eloisa @ajroach42 Oh, right, there was a YouTube video linked in the thread. Here, have some subtitle files: transfer.sh/ELUSuq/Rebelle.srt or transfer.sh/0RIOLO/Rebelle.vtt

You can pick either one of them (I like .srt) and edit it in a text editor to fix up any issues, then you're done! Put it next to the video file with the same name (but different extension) and most players (like VLC) will show the subtitles (you may have to turn on subtitles, depending on the player).

@djsundog @CaribenxMarciaX @eloisa @ajroach42 Oh, right, there was a YouTube video linked in the thread. Here, have some subtitle files: transfer.sh/ELUSuq/Rebelle.srt or transfer.sh/0RIOLO/Rebelle.vtt

You can pick either one of them (I like .srt) and edit it in a text editor to fix up any issues, then you're done! Put it next to the video file with the same name (but different extension) and most players (like VLC) will show the subtitles (you may have to turn on subtitles, depending...

11 Nov 2022 at 15:15 | Open on ostatus.lardbucket.org
Andrew (bookseller era)

@djsundog @CaribenxMarciaX @eloisa

We're using Whisper as a base for generating subtitles, and then cleaning them up by hand in subtitle composer.

@Ethancdavenport is doing the majority of the manual work in cleanup.

Whisper's auto gen is pretty good, it's not perfect, but it takes generating subtitles from a multi-day thing down to a few hours for us.

I'll also boost it up in case anyone has better ideas.

11 Nov 2022 at 16:24 | Open on retro.social
Eloísa & them Seagulls

@CaribenxMarciaX @djsundog @ajroach42

ok, in that case, I personally found both capcut and autocap good enough, so I then just clean up a bit afterwards, dunno if it's the same tools that aj knows of, but using these may help, maybe?

I'm assuming you used the ones from youtube, and those suck a lot, indeed.

11 Nov 2022 at 13:03 | Open on masto.pt
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