I would like to get various youtube channels transcribed so I can access the content without the tedium of slowly listening to the words one by one. So it occurred to me that I could get them transcribed for a reasonably price using Amazon's mechanical turk. Alternatives: * Youtube does give a transcript but it is very rough * With html5 you can speed up the youtube videos but this does not work on my tablet (Android) Has anyone used mechanical turk? Do they have any suggestions of hints? Alternatives? Specific issues: How do I ensure quality work? I am happy to pay for this but not for shoddy work. My task would be something like: Provide a transcript for X videos, cleaning up text into proper sentences and correct words.. You can can the youtube transcripts but they need to be fixed up. Tim Josling
Tim Josling <tim.josling@gmail.com> wrote:
* With html5 you can speed up the youtube videos but this does not work on my tablet (Android)
Have you tried it with both Chrome and Firefox? They may use the same video playback libraries under Android, in which case it wouldn't matter which you used.
Specific issues:
How do I ensure quality work? I am happy to pay for this but not for shoddy work.
You could start with a small sample, check the quality of the work and pay for more if satisfied. This assumes (perhaps wrongly) that the quality will be consistent. Of course, if the quality is unacceptable then at least you'll find this out without having to spend much money. I would also check the licences for the videos; if they're under Creative Commons or similar you might be authorized to write transcripts, but it's best to make sure to avoid legal issues. I'm sure there are services that employ people in low-wage countries to do exactly this kind of work - the same countries that host a growing proportion of corporate call centres.
Jason White wrote:
I would also check the licences for the videos; if they're under Creative Commons or similar you might be authorized to write transcripts, but it's best to make sure to avoid legal issues.
Obviously, only relevant if he intends to distribute the transcripts.
On Sun, 30 Jun 2013, Tim Josling <tim.josling@gmail.com> wrote:
* With html5 you can speed up the youtube videos but this does not work on my tablet (Android)
Do you know of a good program to speed up videos? If so then you could use youtube-dl to download the files, convert them, and then send them to your tablet. I watch a lot of youtube and other videos on Android phones which I download at home, FTP to the phone, and then watch later. So if I was to try and achieve similar goals to yours then inserting a video transcoding step in my video workflow would be my plan. Does avconv do this? It does lots of things if you can figure out how to make it do it. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
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