Startup idea: YouTube transcripts
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http://speakertext.com/
Hope it helps
It would be really nice. The problem is to generate the transcript. Even YouTube speech recognition system is crap when there's not a perfect, clear sound. Maybe you could use the transcripts that are already on YouTube when the uploader has created it, but of course it wouldn't be so useful.
Are you thinking of a service to automate the paperwork for a staff of human transcribers? The state of the art of computer transcription is even worse than computer translation.
http://speakertext.com offers this I think. Their captionbox is pretty slick.
Not exactly the same but closely related, I think:
http://dotsub.com/
http://dotsub.com/
I would definitely prefer a text over a video.
Transcripts would be cool.
Say, I subscribe to this service. There are lots of youtube videos out there. I pay for each transcript. So, once I embed a code, a human being transcribes the video, and transcript shows up. The system can be setup so posts in draft/pending mode in WordPress tell the service that a transcript needs to be generated.
Make it a transcription market - give the transcriptors rights and royalties to their transcriptions.
I wrote a small tool to convert videos to PDF notes, but it is offline for the meantime. Written in Flex. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7JCg5fGho
Teachers and students mostly use it. Its free.
Am I right or am I wrong?