Comments on: Anyone know about transcription equipment? audio and video transcription w/ capablities of closed captioning? http://www.audioequipmentstereo.com/other-computers/anyone-know-about-transcription-equipment-audio-and-video-transcription-w-capablities-of-closed-captioning/ Join in the discussion about audio equipment and stereos. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Kasey C http://www.audioequipmentstereo.com/other-computers/anyone-know-about-transcription-equipment-audio-and-video-transcription-w-capablities-of-closed-captioning/comment-page-1/#comment-255 Kasey C Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:06:13 +0000 http://www.audioequipmentstereo.com/other-computers/anyone-know-about-transcription-equipment-audio-and-video-transcription-w-capablities-of-closed-captioning/#comment-255 The problem here is... What are you REALLY after? You do realize that there's someone at the keyboard actually TYPING the text that's transmitted with closed captioning, right? That's why there's typos and such, esp. at live programs with closed captioning. As for DVD subtitles, those are placed by the manufacturer as "picture overlays". However, it is possible to have software programs, such as SubRip, to turn them into regular text on a PC. However, from your description, it sounds like you want a computer system that when you put in a lecture's audio CD, you hit play, and the computer will spit out a file of all the words in that lecture, all typed up. Sorry, but the technology isn't quite there yet. The problem here is… What are you REALLY after?

You do realize that there’s someone at the keyboard actually TYPING the text that’s transmitted with closed captioning, right? That’s why there’s typos and such, esp. at live programs with closed captioning.

As for DVD subtitles, those are placed by the manufacturer as “picture overlays”. However, it is possible to have software programs, such as SubRip, to turn them into regular text on a PC.

However, from your description, it sounds like you want a computer system that when you put in a lecture’s audio CD, you hit play, and the computer will spit out a file of all the words in that lecture, all typed up.

Sorry, but the technology isn’t quite there yet.

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