With thanks to @zachcaceres, we now have the video player with searchable transcripts on the course-v3 web-site. We’re hoping to release the new course to the public tomorrow. Please help us test it and reply here with any issues you find!
You can access it by clicking any “lesson” link in the sidebar at http://course-v3.fast.ai . Please don’t post about this outside of this forum category until after the official course release (which will be announced here).
Known issues
Transcript search scrollbars are messed up on Chrome for Windows
Not sure if it’s a laptop or a website issue. I tested using Firefox for Windows. The site loads up but video links only show a blue screen[snapshot attached]-
On lesson 2 to test the “search transcript” functionality I searched “computer vis” for computer vision as it’s one of the first words you say. There was result corresponding to the time you say “computer vision applications” in the first few seconds. Don’t know if it’s voluntary or not to exclude the first seconds, but letting you know.
Also more of an UX thing : I don’t know if there’s somewhere you point out there’s a “search transcript” functionality, I only saw the search bar because you mentioned it here. But maybe it’s intentional to make it quite discrete
The reason that lesson 4 and 7 search boxes are missing is that the Youtube transcripts for those lessons did not work for some reason. I’ve also tried submitting the files to Google and AWS speech APIs, and get garbage results in both cases. Not sure what’s going on with those files!..
On my Ubuntu 18.04 with Firefox the ‘Search transcript’ is bit annoyingly on top of the controls. However, I can manage with keyboard controls if it’s not the same for others.
EDIT: Ok. Switching to full-screen makes the problem go away.
