Audio to .srt

[iigood]

Hi guys been searching the net and this forum for hours before posting this thread. My question is I have transferred a movie from 16mm film to dvd but i want to add subtitles to it. is there any program that will extract the audio and automatically convert it to.srt file. I do not want to go frame by frame and write what theyre saying I need a program which will automaticaly detect what theyre saying and make it to a subtitle hope you guys can help

[Baldrick]

Nope.

Or well you can try youtube audio transcribe, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkRtTz-zXVI

And please don't cross post. I removed your other thread.

[iigood]

thanks but i already tried that it doesnt work guess i need to do it manually then translate to english or any other language using ahd subtitle i thought i could get away from the hard work. but if there is any software which will automatically do the subtitle i will hghly apprecate it

[netmask56]

I have had the same problem and a suggestion from a friend, I should try Dragon Speak http://www.nuance.com/dragon/index.htm the transcription program. At least you will get most of the words down (if you filter the audio track to bandpass essential voice frequencies only). You will then have a big editing chore ahead of you matching up to the time code..

[Bjs]

Dragon natural speaking and Philips freespeech both require pre vocal source files (training) before they can do any work ... without these your simply pushing uphill ... if you do have these it can be a matter of one listening through a head set and repeating what is being said ... all that's left is to polish the text up for misspellings.

"bandpass essential voice frequencies" ... the human voice has too much variance across the range ... leaves much more work to be done and there are faster method's.

It's far quicker if your a good listener and fast at typing to load the source into visualsubsync and do the work manually ... with practice comes speed and accuracy.

[jollyjohn]

Can't you find already made subtitles for that movie? There are many places on the web where you can get subtitles.

[Hoser Rob]

Can't you find already made subtitles for that movie? There are many places on the web where you can get subtitles.

That's what I was thinking. I'd be checking opensubtitles.org.

Speech translation to text is more trouble than it's worth generally. You'd have to be paying me to do it.

[Mephesto]

Create the subtitles manually, it will be a lot faster than screwing around with annoying, barely-functional voice recognition speech-to-text software and having to proof-watch the movie and correct every second word that the AI got wrong, which they all end up doing.

OCR has finally, as of not long ago gotten good and reliable enough to accurately convert papers and books into digital text, and STILL many people find themselves spending an hour deleting curlicues and other weird, special characters the OCR incorrectly added, as well as numerous punctuation errors.

Voice recognition hasn't evolved to this level, forget about it.

Before you begin making subtitles yourself, make sure they aren't already available on the net. Search opensubtitles, allsubs.org, subscene and Google.