A few weeks ago, I asked y'all where you got your subtitles. Someone recommended Bazarr, but I became intrigued by the idea of automated transcription. Subtitles are often summaries of the dialogue, and often use different vocabulary and construction, so I thought if I could get an automated transcription of any show, that would be the bee's knees.

So my new pipeline:

Show --> automatic transcription into SRT file --> manual correction & touch up --> compressed audio file of dialogue only

Automated transcription is... OK. There's plenty of stuff that it misses, so it's important to be listening the first time through for hallucinations and mistakes; otherwise you waste your time looking up irrelevant grammar and sabotage yourself listening for things that aren´t there. I don´t know if I'd recommend it to someone just starting out, but if you're phonetically aware to at least realize that the text does not match what you're hearing, I think automated transcription is ok.

And once you have a transcription keyed to the actual spoken dialogue, you can create a dialogue-only audio file, which means that instead of listening to a 100 minute movie for 20 minutes of dialogue, you can listen to 20 minutes of dialogue 5 times.

Anyone do similar? Tips? Tricks?

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