osa Posted October 13, 2020 Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 Is there post tech available that allows word and phrase searching in audio files? My initial thought is the time consuming method of real time siri transcription etc. no transcripts done of this audio unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted October 13, 2020 Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 You could try one of the automated "AI" speech-to-text services. You can get transcripts back in minutes. Like, upload an hour of video, have the transcript back in 15 minutes (I haven't really timed it carefully, but let's say 4X faster than realtime). I do this a fair amount when wearing my producer/journalist hat. The service right for you depends on your workflow, budget, and need for accuracy. Lots of the services are pretty decent right now, but proper names can be a challenge, though it's not like 10 years ago when I was working on a film about Sophie Tucker and the automated transcription tech we tried transcribed her name as "soviet trucker." Cracked me up, but wasn't helpful for searches... Anyway: I'm hanging with Transcriptive these days, but that's just me and my current work: https://transcriptive.com Temi is good. And you can get up to 45min transcribed for free as a trial: https://www.temi.com Also check out Rev and Trint; I haven't used their automated versions, but people I know are happy with them: https://trint.com https://www.rev.com/automated-transcription I know that's a lot of links. But quick looks at the websites will help you figure out which service is worth a shot. Or send a file to a couple and choose what works for you. And let me know what you end up doing. I'm always up for feedback on this topic... The tech is changing quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa Posted October 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2020 Thank you jim, this is great info! I will check it all out today -Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRF Posted October 16, 2020 Report Share Posted October 16, 2020 Thanks Jim, on the basis of your post, I got Transcriptive to work inside Premiere Pro. I had previously used Dragon but it was only 50-60% acurate. Transcriptive works as advertised and is indeed over 95% accurate, even for the non-US language we use in Australia! Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa Posted October 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2020 With memtioning premier it got me going a different direction since ultimately i would love the same possibilities in pro tools, currently looking into this as an option: https://blog.simonsays.ai/avid-pro-tools-export-from-simon-says-and-import-directly-into-pro-tools-69b732991073 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shastapete Posted October 16, 2020 Report Share Posted October 16, 2020 I've been using Descript for the podcast productions I've been doing. It uses google's transcription engine and creates a transcript that is directly tied to an audio timeline – so doing a paper edit does a decent job of editing the audio file as well. I would export it to ProTools to clean up the edits and do post processing and mixing, but it saved me a significant amount of time doing the first pass of the edits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sound Posted November 25, 2020 Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 For word and phrase searching in Video files I use the Phrase-Find option in Avid media composer. Works great if you just want to find some words and dont need a transcript. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted November 27, 2020 Report Share Posted November 27, 2020 On 10/16/2020 at 10:29 PM, Shastapete said: I've been using Descript for the podcast productions I've been doing. It uses google's transcription engine and creates a transcript that is directly tied to an audio timeline – so doing a paper edit does a decent job of editing the audio file as well. I would export it to ProTools to clean up the edits and do post processing and mixing, but it saved me a significant amount of time doing the first pass of the edits. Descript looks really interesting! Are there any audio search tools for finding 'quiet', atmos's or room tones within files or even folders? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bouke Posted November 28, 2020 Report Share Posted November 28, 2020 16 hours ago, daniel said: Are there any audio search tools for finding 'quiet', atmos's or room tones within files or even folders? I would think any half decent DAW would have a 'find silence' routine... But, I already have the code to do so. (Toy with my Transcriber app, you can set it to 'jump over silence'.) Now, I could make something that lets you select files / folders, select channel(s), set a threshold, minimum silence/low level duration and it will do a fine job. BUT, I have no clue what would be a decent way of returning the found data. I could add XMP to the files, no clue if ProTools accepts that. Or, markers / cue points old style to Wave? CSV? It's definitely not rocket science, just making the interface / export found values would take some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shastapete Posted December 1, 2020 Report Share Posted December 1, 2020 On 11/27/2020 at 12:23 PM, daniel said: Descript looks really interesting! Are there any audio search tools for finding 'quiet', atmos's or room tones within files or even folders? No, there's a "remove silence" but for most people's workflows searching for silence isn't something that is needed or wanted. I get why it could be useful – but that's certainly not a need of the regular users of this app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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