[Noisebridge-discuss] begging for a mashup [not hijacking thread: rant: youtube as documentation (hijacked thread was: Re: "Half-rap" music and "Grabbing a record")]

[David Molnar]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 2:24 PM, T <t at of.net> wrote:
> A text-to-speech engine (like the one Google uses in Android) to pull
> time-indexed text out of youtube interleaved with periodic screencaps
> and dumped into a wiki.
>
> And if you have the right plugin a button offering the wiki when you
> visit a youtube video.
>
> Initially it should err on the side of too many screen shots, since
> it's way faster to delete redundant ones than add new ones.

This sounds like something you may want to share with the people
running http://www.speakertext.com . They are already using Mechanical
Turk to do the transcription of YouTube videos. They also have a
limited story around allowing people to clean up incorrect
transcripts. The embedding is quite nice.

Your suggestion is a bit more work than what they have now but should
be doable. Of course it'd be a great summer of code project as you
say, as well.

Speaking of transcription, does anyone know of a good low-latency
transcription service besides https://www.sprintcaptel.com/index.asp
or Hamilton WebCapTel ? As in, one with a decent API?

David Molnar