Speech to Text captions

scisport

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Aug 22, 2023 11:50

It's not quite clear if and how PD can do this, so a little guidance please. I have a produced video presentation. I want to upload it to PD and have text captions added sutomatically without having to upoad a script. Does PD include the necessary "reader" yo do this? Online there is a service VEED.IO that does this, but I would rather have a software in my system that does it without hacing to wait for transfer and such. The completed video would then be exported likely in MP4 form. We are MAC exclusive. Thanks for the assist.

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Aug 22, 2023 20:13

Hello,

Yes, this is what Speech to Text should do. If the audio is clear enough, it will auto add the subtitles based on the dialogue in your video clip. Once it transcribes, you can edit the subtitles if required and then output your video with the subtitles applied to the video.

More info here: https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/21/mac/enu/18_01_00_auto_transcribe_sub.html

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Richmond Dan

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Aug 26, 2023 11:33

Quote Hello,

Yes, this is what Speech to Text should do. If the audio is clear enough, it will auto add the subtitles based on the dialogue in your video clip. Once it transcribes, you can edit the subtitles if required and then output your video with the subtitles applied to the video.

More info here: https://help.cyberlink.com/stat/help/powerdirector/21/mac/enu/18_01_00_auto_transcribe_sub.html

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Is this only for PD365, or will it work with the perpetual license PD21? Regards,
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optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Aug 26, 2023 15:29

Quote Is this only for PD365, or will it work with the perpetual license PD21?

This is a subscrition-only "perk"

You can see a comparison here. Speech to Text is in the Creative Editing Tools Made Easy section

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Aug 26, 2023 15:37

Quote Is this only for PD365, or will it work with the perpetual license PD21?

Nothing new relative to your prior inquiry, https://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/119085.page#post_box_448442

Jeff

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Aug 27, 2023 07:03

I try to use the Speech to Text captions but when i try to create it nothing happens?

optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

Aug 27, 2023 12:51

Quote I try to use the Speech to Text captions but when i try to create it nothing happens?

I think we'd need a lot more details to try and help you with this issue.

I've never used that tool before, and here's a video of what happened on my system (click on the YouTube logo at the bottom if you want to see it full size):

I think it did a really good job of capturing the speaker's words, even though she talks really quickly. It missed a few easy words ("googles" instead of "giggles"), and other words that were really specific and that I wouldn't expect to be recognized, like "Aragon Lacrosse" (which it heard as "aribon macra"). Overall I'd only need to do some minor touch-ups.

Can you tell us where things stopped working when you try these same steps?

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