Auto generate subtitles not working

generalakaba

So, i have Videopad 10.64 and i wanted to insert subtitles in a 10 minutes clip, why is the auto generate subtitles not working?

I have selected Microsoft English recognizer 5.1 as Speech to text engine, but it doesn't seem to be working.

Anyone knows how this function works?

Thanks.

borate

The speech to text feature creates a single long line that does not correspond to individual scene audio. It's not functional IMO.

Go here. Generate a subtitle SRT file (no need to download the video) and import that file into Videopad. Works well.

ST_sample.mp4

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Can't get this to work either. As I have a French version of Vista and presumably a ST engine that works in French it still seems to produce gibberish. For example a clear audio of Maison....Maison.....Maison ... produces a non related text.....

At a stretch of the imagination there might be SOME sound similarity but in practice it's useless! Other tests were equally fruitless, often seem to be random text...often hilarious. So IMHO this feature is best left alone. Similar sounding English and French words didn't work either.

For example Table...Table...Table (repeated) came out as...

La Thailande.. Thailande...Thailande.... and Tremblement de terre Tremble....

Obviously a very shaky table (Tremblement de terre is french for an earthquake.

Sorry no good (but funny)

Go here https://speechnotes.co/ and say what you want then save the result as a text file. Use this in VP it seems to work OK.

Nat

generalakaba

I know there are sites that generate subtitles at a price, I just wanted to learn how to do it myself with videopad. These sites use similar programs to videopad I bet.

borate

Perhaps auto-generation is best left to the companies specializing in that service. Some may do short jobs without charge.

Manual subtitle entry in Videopad works fine.

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"........Anyone knows how this function works?........"

In theory at least you..........

Open VP and place a video clip with sound or audio clip on the timeline and select it.
Click the Audio tab on the top toolbar to open the Audio toolbar. The Speech to Text tab is now activated.
Click the Speech to Text tab. This will open the video with a default text visible (Usually "Sample text")
Set the Font; Colour etc. for the required speech text
Click the Apply button. VP will now generate a text file based on the recorded audio. The text file is automatically placed on the overlay track at the Cursor position.

That's how it should work. Obviously the audio file should be a speaking VOICE (not music or background sound.) You can, of course create audio voice files directly using the Audio Toolbar's Record Audio feature.

The text generator engine of your PC should be capable of recognizing the language being used. e.g. According to the Control Panel on my French Vista machine (OK it's old!) this is the Microsoft 8.0 Voice recognition utility (francais France) So expecting text to come out in recognizable English if the audio is in english is, in this case a bit over-optimistic.

The result of an audio clip saying 0ne two three four five six seven eight nine ten was....

Which was rubbish (although the words were all french.)

The result of an audio clip saying un deux trois quatre cing six sept huit neuf dix was...

Which was reasonable (although other attempts were less successful (to say the least :lol🙂 RK might be for an unrecognizable word/sound. ..Un might be "heard" as err.

I am called Nat came out as......

Which is actually french for I remember the act! :o:o.....Ooops...What did I do??

(It should have been je m'appelle Nat )

I would be interested to see some simple English examples like this. :lol: All in all this feature needs some refining.

Nat

borate

In addition to the odd translation, which is purportedly the fault of the MS speech engine, subtitle generation is one long line - not linked to the spoken video.

Perhaps one could generate it piecemeal, but that's more trouble than it's worth.😆

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Hi B

I agree. It's not VP. 🙂. I remember years ago a free disc with some magazine that had Philips Speech Recognition Program. After almost an hour of reading lines of text into my PC, correcting and repeating, the program had reportedly learnt my voice and was competent to write what was spoken. ....or what it thought it had heard. The output was hilarious. If you ummed or ahed, coughed, sniffed or rustled a paper it it heard it via the mike and wrote gibberish (which occasionally made sense) and if you sniggered or laughed (one couldn't help it when it was appearing in real time)... it simply made it worse. There were hours of fun to be had....It was a Philips Chinese Whispers generator! :lol:

Nat

borate

The specialists seem to have it nailed. Every test made here with an on-line subtitling tool has been 100% accurate.

Explored the capabilities of another prosumer NLE that doesn't do auto-generate caps... their FAQ points elsewhere.