Harness the power of speech recognition to create high-quality captioned content
Highlights
- Uses advanced automatic speech recognition technology to analyze and "translate" spoken content to a text transcript.
- Offers a full-screen editor with synchronized text and voice playback for precise correction of the transcript.
- Creates final media content with high-quality captions by combining the original media content with the corrected caption.
From bare to there, in a few hours
If you have a bare Webcast, podcast, or digital video or audio, in need of captions, you can use the IBM® AbilityLab™ Media Captioner and Editor to create them automatically!
The IBM AbilityLab Media Captioner and Editor has two parts:
- The media captioning server – this Web-based program accepts files to be captioned. The server reads your submitted file several times, using advanced automatic speech recognition technology to interpret the spoken words and create a "written" transcript. After a period of time – several minutes to overnight, depending on the size of your content file – the media captioning server creates and sends the written transcript to your system for you to review, edit, and approve.
In addition, the server will accept the corrected caption from the media captioning editor (see below), merge the captions onto the original content, and send you a captioned file.
- The media captioning editor – this full-screen editor enables you to open the transcript file and work with the text to ensure the words are correct, that the spelling is right and that the message is polished and synchronized with the video or audio.
From labor-intensive to labor-lovely
The captioning process has always been labor-intensive – send your files to the captioning house, wait for days, get the captions back, correct and start over. Now, with the Media Captioner and Editor, you can complete a captioning project in a matter of hours. It's as easy as 1-2-3:
- Send audio (wma, .wav, .mp3, .pcm) video or other files (.mpeg, .mpg, .wmv, .avi, .dat, .asf, .rm, .rmvb, .ram, .3gp, .mov, .mp4, .m4v, .dvix, .dv, .mkv, .flv, .vob, .qt, .cpk, .fli, .flc) for captioning and receive a transcript back on your system.
- Read the transcript and listen to the synchronized audio. Correct and send back to the server.
- Receive the resulting Flash file with the captions merged onto it and play it using RealPlayer or Windows Media Player.
| Software: | |
|---|---|
| Operating System | Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP2), Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (SP2) (English version) (only 32-bit version supported) |
| Other software | Required: RealOne Player V1 or later, or RealPlayer1® 10 or later Windows Media® Player (Version 9 or later) Optional: RealProducer® Basic11 or Windows Media 8 Encoding Utility or Windows Media Encoder 9 Series |
| Hardware: | |
|---|---|
| Computer | A Pentium-based PC or compatible machine |
| CPU | Intel® Pentium® 4 or equivalent |
| Memory | 512 MB (1GB recommended) |
| Hard disk drive | 100 MB of available hard-disk space |
| Video subsystem | XGA (1024x768 pixels, 65,536 colors) or more |
| Sound card | 16-bit sound or better |
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