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by mtrimpe 4517 days ago
Do you offer support for time-coded transcriptions (i.e. video subtitles) as well?

We would love a good provider to enrich video with translations (for when we find a good one that offers machine transcription.)

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Hello,

Not yet, but could you send us an example?

We haven't found a good provider yet to do this properly for our use case, but SpeakerText, Koemei and VoiceBase are examples of companies that offer these functionalities.

Unfortunately SpeakerText doesn't offer non-post-processed prices, Koemei integrated it into their own product and VoiceBase didn't offer post-processing on request, which we would need for integration into our product.

Which format will become mainstream probably depends on HTML5 adoption, which is detailed here http://www.3playmedia.com/how-it-works/how-to-guides/html5-v... Currently WebVTT seems to be in the lead.

Those formats don't accommodate for timestamps per spoken word though, which would be possible with machine transcription and which I would pay a premium for.