The Problem – We need all videos to be section 508 compliant see § 1194.24 Video and multimedia products. http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?fuseAction=stdsdoc#Video ; where all Videos posted must follow this requirement.
“All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency’s mission, regardless of format, that contain visual information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be audio described.”
This basically means all video must have a text equivalent, closed captioned version for all hearing impaired people to consume be it via a text reader or a screen reading application. After doing some research I came to find several solutions that fit the bill that made the process very simple by taking the audio track from within a video and create a relatively accurate text version of the text spoken in the video. The next step was to watch the videos and read the text and make minor corrections
The Answers – A Review of Some possible Solutions
Express Scribe Transcription Software
Express Scribe is free professional audio player software for PC or Mac designed to assist the transcription of audio recordings.
A typist can install it on their computer and control audio playback using a transcription footpedal or keyboard (with ‘hot’ keys). This transcribing software also offers valuable features for typists including variable speed playback, multi-channel control, playing video, file management, and more.
Express Scribe is completely free and can be used without any restrictions. We make it free because we know you will love it so much you will use and recommend our commercial digital dictation suite to others. Please visit our Dictation Software page.
http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html
Transana
Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data. Transana lets you analyze and manage your data in very sophisticated ways. Transcribe it, identify analytically interesting clips, assign keywords to clips, arrange and rearrange clips, create complex collections of interrelated clips, explore relationships between applied keywords, and share your analysis with colleagues. The result is a new way to focus on your data, and a new way to manage large collections of video and audio files and clips.
http://www.transana.org/
Cogi.com
Subtitle Workshop –
Subtitle Workshop is the most complete, efficient and convenient freeware subtitle editing tool. It supports all the subtitle formats you need and has all the features you would want from a subtitle editing program. Subtitle Workshop makes subtitle creating/editing/converting tasks almost a pleasure, the amicable and intuitive interface mixes easy to access menus & must have features with advanced functions and a remarkable speed and stability, drastically reducing subtitle editing time. It includes spell check function and an advanced video preview feature which will ease the task even more. The best choice for the beginner, expert or the fansubber. Have a try, and you’ll forget the rest!
ttp://www.urusoft.net
Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
Rich Harrington talks about one his favorite new features in Premiere Pro CS4; the audio transcription options. Audio transcription is very powerful and it comes in real handy when editing by helping to locate audio clips. The transcription information can also be exported with the video.
My Review:
For somebody that already uses Adobe products and is pretty familiar with premiere this fit the bill right away. i was able to create a new project and import my video files and encode and get the meta data [text] and hand that off to a third party to clean up the text file by watching the Video and editing what text was given them.
http://layersmagazine.com/author/richard-harrington