Dave, add some subtitles to your videos - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ElektroQuark
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 01:20:10 pm
content: In English, nothing more complicated.Sometimes I can't have the audio on, so subtitles will be fine.Maybe some potential users can read English but not understand spoken English very well.You will have more users

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 01:32:25 pm
content: Sorry, but that would be a massive undertaking in time and/or money I'm afraid. There are just too few people who would benefit from it to warrant doing it.I have looked into it before.Dave.

author: ElektroQuark
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 03:38:30 pm
content: I had to try...

author: Slobodan
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 03:56:57 pm
content: EdoNork, when you play video on youtube, you can click on "CC" and then on "English", and you have subtitles.

author: nitro2k01
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 20, 2012, 08:22:37 pm
content: Quote from: Slobodan on September 20, 2012, 03:56:57 pmThose are computer generated, unless the video uploader has provided captions. For the most part, these suck, though they occasionally provide some good comedy.

author: ElektroQuark
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 21, 2012, 08:40:13 am
content: Quote from: nitro2k01 on September 20, 2012, 08:22:37 pmI have to desagree: They ALWAYS suck, but yes, they are funny.

author: Slobodan
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 21, 2012, 11:52:18 am
content: Well, what did you expect from globalist google...But that's better than nothing.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 23, 2012, 09:05:18 pm
content: Well, try writing an optimised speech-to-text program that can handle multiple dialects/accents, continuous speech, odd abbreviations and anachronisms. For the most part, all speech-to-text programs available today suck.

author: nitro2k01
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 23, 2012, 10:23:39 pm
content: Quote from: Slobodan on September 21, 2012, 11:52:18 amWhat has that got to do with anything?

author: steve30
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 27, 2012, 03:28:10 pm
content: Quote from: nitro2k01 on September 20, 2012, 08:22:37 pmI occaisionally watch those just for the fun of it. When I have watched them, it often had nothing to do with what was being spoken and made no sense.

author: calw1
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 11, 2016, 08:50:17 am
content: Hi Dave,I know this is a pretty old post but it looks like there's some new feature where you can enable community subtitles. So bored/ silly people such as myself can type subtitles for your video as we watch it. I don't know if you can/ would be interested in turning that on.

author: rob77
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2016, 09:53:48 am
content: Quote from: calw1 on February 11, 2016, 08:50:17 amand some pranksters will make sure they'll be funny.... like the community suggestions to google translate... (remember the Russian Federation translated as "Mordor" ?)

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 12, 2016, 09:18:06 am
content: Quote from: EdoNork on September 20, 2012, 01:20:10 pmit's very time consuming to do subtitles, in my own trials it's about 3X the length of the video unless your really quick at typing!video owners can take the automatic subtitles and edit them but they are usually in such a mess it's easier to start from scratch

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 12, 2016, 10:53:44 am
content: Quote from: dexters_lab on February 12, 2016, 09:18:06 amYes. And if I had 5 minutes I'd pay someone to do it. But when my video average like 30 minutes,andhave technical not everyone understands (read, the cheap translation services in China/India/Wherever), then it's clearly not worth it.

author: sleary78
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 12, 2016, 06:56:47 pm
content: Subtitles? Noooooo! Scottish folk are always getting subtitled even when we speak English! Dave isn't that bad!!! Just have a FAQ translation page.