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Best of Adobe MAX #3: Speech-to-Text in Premiere
by Tim Frick
At first I was only moderately impressed with the speech-to-text transcription feature offered in Premiere CS4. It seemed cool but not something I thought we would use with any regularity. As was evidenced by some of the sessions I attended at MAX, my thinking about the possibilities this feature has to offer was a bit short-sighted.
The speech-to-text converter transforms spoken words from video clips into editable text that can then be used for captions, metadata, or any number of things. And it does a pretty good job too. Text files are easily modified if the conversion isn’t accurate and, more importantly, the data can be exported for use in other applications.
One presenter used this functionality to transcribe a portion of VP candidate Sarah Palin’s debate speech and then used expressions in After Effects to pop up an animated type treatment of the word ‘maverick’ every time said word was used in her speech, thus creating the perfect drinking game companion. Nothing short of brilliant.
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This could be a SUPER HUGE asset to people who are trying to contend with accessibility compliance issues.
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