Auto Closed Caption

i am recording board meeting for a local company. I would like to ad closed captioning. Everyone os speaking into a nice clean mic 95% of the time.

is there something i can get to interpret the voices and create the ClosedCap?

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If only things were that simple...

Interpret voices? Yeah, there is software for that. But automatically closed caption? Nope, gotta do this the expensive way. Either dub at a post house with that encoded (and you have to provide timecoded transcripts to a transcription company and they will make the closed caption file), or you can use MacCaption...but again, you need time coded transcripts.


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if the mic is REALLY THAT clear you might try two computers and one of those text to speech packages. but thats just going to result in a text file - and youd spend as much time editing and correcting that as just doing it yourself...

There's a company in Rockville, Maryland that does a great job with this -- they can transcribe and caption for you (more expensive) or provide the transcript (much cheaper) Forget those voice recognition programs - you must train them to a particular voice - reading pre-digested copy (I have MacSpeach) - one of the best packages out there - and it works great if you train to your voice - have someone else speak into your profile - as they say in NY Faghetaboutit.

Here's that company's web site
Closed Captioning Company

I guess another alternative would be doing subtitles on a DVD, although I've never done that before...it seems like it would be a little time consuming, but maybe doing this in conjunction with Wayne's idea of doing the speech to text might work.

Casey