Is there any transcripts for the videos available anywhere?

[cedric (Cedric Chee)]

@jeremy

There are auto-generated transcripts on youtube that are searchable. Click the 3 dots at the bottom right of the video to get to it. But yes, a proper transcript would be even better, since there’s plenty of errors in the automatic one.

Right. A previous participant have also created a simple Python script to grab the auto-generated transcripts on all fast.ai YouTube videos but the transcription quality is so low that it’s even hard to manually correct the mistakes. But with the part 2 2018 edition, the video quality is so much better, so the auto-gen YouTube subtitles are better: GitHub - mingrui/youtube_caption_search: Make youtube video timestamp searchable by caption/subtitle

@jeremy

BTW one idea would be to use Lin’s transcripts to train a better voice recognition model for my voice, and then auto-generate the transcripts for the new videos. You could even learn a language model to make it more accurate… It would be quite a big project, but it would be pretty amazing to let anyone create a speech recognizer from their own youtube captions!

Thanks for giving me the idea. Yeah, it’s an interesting idea to turn into a project with great potentials.