Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Inspired by this DEV post by @lauragift21
about adding automatic captions with Cloudinary I thought it might be nice to consider having something similar for DEV.
The post details how it can be done via Cloudinary, essentially using either of these services:
The services create machine generated transcriptions.
As we don't upload directly to Cloudinary (but to S3 and let Cloudinary fetch from there) I'm not sure if we can use those add-ons but maybe they can be invoked passing the URL of the S3 uploaded and transcoded video.
It should definitely be a per video setting during upload (enabled by default) and there might be privacy considerations by using an external service but this is how I imagine it works:
the video gets uploaded to S3
Google's, Microsoft's or Amazon's transcription service is invoked (we could test them all to see which one is the most accurate)
the transcription is added to the video shown to the users, with a button to display/hide it, like [CC] for YouTube videos
Additional context
Bonus: let the user download, edit and reupload the transcripts to their own videos
Love the idea of generating and embedding transcriptions, thanks Gift!
Awesome! I'm glad you liked it.
Thanks for inspiring me to write this feature request:
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Inspired by this DEV post by @lauragift21 about adding automatic captions with Cloudinary I thought it might be nice to consider having something similar for DEV.
The post details how it can be done via Cloudinary, essentially using either of these services:
The services create machine generated transcriptions.
As we don't upload directly to Cloudinary (but to S3 and let Cloudinary fetch from there) I'm not sure if we can use those add-ons but maybe they can be invoked passing the URL of the S3 uploaded and transcoded video.
AWS also has its own similar service AWS Transcribe which can be used via API. See also this tutorial: Create an Audio Transcript
Describe the solution you'd like
It should definitely be a per video setting during upload (enabled by default) and there might be privacy considerations by using an external service but this is how I imagine it works:
Additional context
Bonus: let the user download, edit and reupload the transcripts to their own videos
:-)
Oh wow! Happy to see this as a feature request it'll be a huge improvement to an already amazing platform :)