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@candide@vis.social  ·  activity timestamp 9 months ago

Alrighty, I have a few more leads (because I'm still obsessing over this):

1. I discovered https://beta.meet.jit.si today, and this #Jitsi version has a "Subtitles" button. It only works if the person speaking is using a Chrome-ish browser, but will display on Firefox. That said, it only works for a few mins before failing...

Edit: Turns out I was at the right place at the right time lol, and they have no plans of offering subtitles in the hosted version (https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/15247)
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@candide@vis.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 months ago
  1. Another option could be to use #CaptionNinja: https://caption.ninja. It's a #WebCaptioner replacement, and only works on Chrome (and co). Caption Ninja is cool, though, because:

    - it has a live feed that can be shared with others or added into #OBS as a browser source overlay thingie
    - it seems pretty customizable (https://github.com/steveseguin/captionninja),
    - it has a manual text entry mode (for stenographers?)
    - can add speaker labels

    #candidefindings

This screen recording captures a demo I did of Caption Ninja. There are two browser tabs side-by-side. The one on the left is MS Edge, which I'm using to record and capture my voice. Unfortunately, Edge, Chromite, and Chrome seem to be the only browsers which can support this function (Web Speech API tingz, I think). Other Chromium derivatives like Ungoogled and Vivaldi don't work for the input room... On the right, we see the shareable live transcript overlay in an Ungoogled Chromium window. The overlays can be shared with anyone to follow along, and can be imported into OBS as an open caption screen overlay. The overlays can be viewed on all the browsers I tested. I even added an option in the URL to add a speaker label with my name, but that can be turned off. Anyway, if you got this far, drop a 🗣️
This screen recording captures a demo I did of Caption Ninja. There are two browser tabs side-by-side. The one on the left is MS Edge, which I'm using to record and capture my voice. Unfortunately, Edge, Chromite, and Chrome seem to be the only browsers which can support this function (Web Speech API tingz, I think). Other Chromium derivatives like Ungoogled and Vivaldi don't work for the input room... On the right, we see the shareable live transcript overlay in an Ungoogled Chromium window. The overlays can be shared with anyone to follow along, and can be imported into OBS as an open caption screen overlay. The overlays can be viewed on all the browsers I tested. I even added an option in the URL to add a speaker label with my name, but that can be turned off. Anyway, if you got this far, drop a 🗣️