Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:32:56 -0800 From: "Murray Stokely" <murray@stokely.org> To: "FreeBSD doc list" <freebsd-doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Volunteers Needed to add Subtitles to Conference Videos Message-ID: <2a7894eb0812311432o4ac4ac88g49fd59ab63ea2457@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0812311427q7125e48dr8d4c2b5c5abee2b2@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a7894eb0812311427q7125e48dr8d4c2b5c5abee2b2@mail.gmail.com>
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I forgot to include two additional help topics / videos that provide more background about adding subtitles : http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100079 http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100077&cbid=-187pqdnf2wsk7&src=cb&lev=answer There are standard formats for these things so the subtitles could be used by other video hosting services as well. - Murray On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Murray Stokely <murray@stokely.org> wrote: > We now have over 23 videos uploaded to the BSD Conferences video > channel from MeetBSD, NYCBSDCon, and other BSD conferences. > > I'd really like to add subtitles to the YouTube metadata as this has > been requested by several users. Once we have subtitles they will be > autotmatically machine translated so that users can choose captions in > the language they are most comfortable with. > > There are a variety of tools you can use to record a transcription of > the video. One that I tried recently was the webservice Overstream : > > http://www.overstream.net > > You simply give it the URL for the YouTube video as it is playing and > it lets you add caption overlays and modify the timings to sync it up > properly. > > The end result should be a text file with caption and timings which we > can then upload to different video services to provide the captioning > on demand. > > If you have any experience with this, or if you'd like to try to > caption one of the videos, please let me know. Thanks and happy new > year! > > - Murray >
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