Times Digital: QuickQuote

QuickQuote is a web application helping users to select video quotes from a video and embed them in an article. SpokenData API is used to generate video transcription. This project is maintained by Times Digital and Pietro Passarelli.

You can also get to know more about the tool at http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/a-new-tool-from-the-times-of-london-lets-you-easily-detect-and-capture-quotes-from-a-video/.

Automatic Speech Transcription in English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Czech, Slovak, ...

SpokenData automatically transcribes recordings in quite a number of language and more are about to come. Just upload your recordings and select the language. Dou you have some specific domain of audio such as TV news, lectures and so forth? Then you can also select from specifically trained recognizers that should generate better transcription. If you have lots of data to transcribe, contact us and we will train a recognizer to get the best transcription of your data.

Онлайн перевод устной речи в текст - теперь с поддержкой русского языка!

Мы добавили на наш сайт поддержку русского языка, и теперь Вы можете расшифровывать записи с речью на русском! Просто залогиньтесь на SpokenData, загрузите свою запись и получите автоматическую письменную расшифровку текста на записи совершенно бесплатно! Вы также можете указать путь к вашей записи с помощью ссылки на YouTube, Vimeo или любой другой онлайн хостинг. Наша программа скачивает данные и конвертирует аудио в текст за считанные минуты. Когда расшифровка закончена, Вы получите оповещение по электронной почте. После этого Вы можете вностить изменения в текст с помощью нашего онлайн-редактора.

Для разработчиков программного обеспечения мы предоставляем простой в употреблении API.

Вы все еще не зарегистрированы на SpokenData.com? Пройдите быструю регистрацию здесь и откройте для себя возможности расшифровки Ваших аудио меньше, чем за минуту!

Russian voice to text online service.

Hi,

We added support of a new language - Russian. So, you can process any of your recordings in Russian now. Just log on SpokenData, submit your data and get automatic text transcript for free in few minutes. Another option is to provide us with URL of YouTube, Vimeo or other on-line services where your data is. We download the data and convert them into text quickly. You are notified by email when the conversion of audio into text is done. You can also edit the transcript yourself in our web editor later.
If you are a developer, feel free to integrate our API. It's easy.

You do not have SpokenData.com account yet? Just register here and you can process your data in 1 minute!

American Spanish speech to text for free!

Hello,

We are happy to announce that we support American Spanish now. So, if you have any voice recordings, you can process them in SpokenData to get automatic text transcript for free now. As our service is in cloud, it is very easy for you to get the text. Just take you audio or video files in Spanish and upload them.
The second option is to provide us with URL of YouTube, Vimeo or other on-line services. We download the data and convert them into text quickly. You are norified by email when the conversion is done. You can also edit the transcript yourself in our web editor later. If you are a developer, feel free to integrate our API. It's easy.

You do not have SpokenData.com account yet? Just register here and you can process your data in 1 minute!

Download recording video, audio and subtitles

SpokenData users can now download processed recording video in mp4, audio in mp3 and recording subtitles in a variety of formats. The files are accessible through the download menu or SpokenData API.

• SRT - SubRip text file format
• TRS - used in Transcriber
• WebVTT - The Web Video Text Tracks Format

Set deadline for your transcription

Do you create/edit the transcription yourself or have a team of annotators? SpokenData has a new handy feature that might help you finish the transcription process in time. From now on, you can select the deadline for each processed recording. Just click on the menu button and select the Set deadline item.

Then, you can order your recordings by the deadline value and see the recordings which should be finished soon. The deadline information can appear in 3 different colors:

• red: deadline has already passed
• orange: deadline will pass within 24 hours
• black: deadline will pass in more than 24 hours

The deadline can always be changed or removed. These feature can also help your annotators who will see how much time they have left to complete their jobs.

Vimeo is supported

As some of our users host their recordings on Vimeo, we now support processing of Vimeo files. Simply enter a Vimeo url into the Media File URL input box. 
In general, users can enter:

• a direct url to a media file (mp3, mp4, mpg, avi, 3gp, mkv, wav and many others)
• YouTube url
• Vimeo url

Besides that, you can also upload a multimedia file using the upload form or SpokenData API.

SpokenData API - Search in Speech

SpokenData API has a new function that enables users to search in recording transcriptions. This means that you can quickly get a list of captions matching the search query with their start and end time, caption content and speaker identity. The search can be performed either in all user recordings or in a list of selected recordings.

An example of a basic SpokenData search API call can be:
http://spokendata.com/api/18/br3sp59a2it7fig94jdtbt3p9ife5qpx39fd8npp/search?q=student

It simply means to search for occurrences of student in all recording transcriptions of the DEMO account.

The returned XML shows the elapsed time for parsing the search query and for performing the search. As the number of results can be very high, the search API call supports paging. By default, the maximum number of results per page is set to 10. In the output XML, there are 2 types of results - recordings and captions. Each has different paging.

How to show the speaker segmentation

In SpokenData subtitles editor, we changed the rule of displaying the speaker segmentation. From now on, it is hidden by default except for the recordings processed directly by the Speaker segmentation method. However, the speaker segmentation can quickly be shown by clicking on the checkbox Show speaker segmentation. Currently, SpokenData subtitles editor does not support editing the generated speaker identity. When it is implemented, we will consider changing this rule.

How to adjust subtitle timings

Each subtitle has its start and end time. These specify when and for how long the caption appears over the video. When editing subtitles in our editor, you can simply adjust their timings either with your mouse or directly from the keyboard. First, you need to enter into the editing mode. This can be achieved by several ways:

• double click on the subtitle caption
• double click on the audio waveform segment
• CTRL + click on the subtitle caption
• CTRL + I -  to edit the currently played caption
• TAB or SHIFT+TAB - to edit the next or previous caption

Now, as you are in the editing mode, you can change the subtitle caption and its start and end time. The currently edited subtitle is marked with a light-blue background color.

• ALT + Left - shift caption start time by -0.1s
• ALT + Right - shift caption start time by +0.1s
• ALT + Up - shift caption end time by +0.1s
• ALT + Down  - shift caption end time by -0.1s

On the left in the editor, there is an audio waveform with segments that represent duration of particular subtitles. You can easily adjust subtitle duration by holding down the mouse left button and dragging the segment borders. The audio waveform can significantly help you to define the segment beginning and end because moments with no speech/sound in the audio look like a straight line.

Interactive waveform with Outwave.js

Outwave.js is a handy library that can render audio waveform in a web browser. Its development was also supported by SpokenData. Apart from that, this library has a great extension for displaying annotation segments directly on the waveform. The segments can be easily added, deleted, merged or split. By and large, we really needed such a library.

Therefore, we are happy to announce that Outwave.js was integrated into the SpokenData subtitles editor. From now on, our users will more easily define speech or non-speech segments just by dragging the segment boundaries on the waveform with the mouse button held down.

We are certain you will benefit from the Outwave library as we do. The fastest way to test our new feature is to start the SpokenData demo and edit any recording subtitles.