Is there a speech recognition software to translate a chinese news report?

[erduoteng]

I have really needed to translate a news report about something that is important to me for ages. My chinese listening is not good enough.

I know if I have chinese text i can translate it easily with google translate. Is there a way to translate audio as well.

Its a news report so it pretty standard mandarin pronunciation.

Thanks for your help.

[sanchuan]

Transcription software, such as found in many smartphones nowadays, works well. See if you have access to a phone with live transcription technology, perhaps buried somewhere in the accessibility settings. There may be standalone apps available too if you look up 'transcription' or 'transcribe'. 

 

You could also try playing it to the little speech-to-text mic available in most smartphone keyboards.

 

Once you have the text, you can feed it to any translation software/professional/forum. 

 

All else fails, why not upload it here and see if someone can help, if it's not too long.

[erduoteng]

thankyou i will try this. It is pretty long like ten minutes

 

[fabiothebest]

If you are looking for free options you can try Google Translate or Google Docs with its dictation feature. Just let the video or audio play with a microphone on and it will transcribe the audio into text.

If you want the best AI transcription technology look into Whisper by OpenAI. It has an API you can use if you are tech-savvy. Otherwise https://turboscribe.ai/ uses Whisper at its core and is easy to use. There is a subscription for unlimited transcriptions at 20 USD/month, but with a free account you can get up to 3 transcripts/day (up to 30 minutes long per video). Another option is using Lingq. They also have a transcription service that uses Whisper under the hood.

[Jan Finster]

Lots of ways, mostly they use whisper. Ai. 

 

 

[becky82]

I use https://jianwai.youdao.com for making subtitles for my YouTube videos (when they're in Chinese).  It's pretty decent (free for <2 hours per day).

[erduoteng]

@fabiothebest thankyou so much for the link to turboscribe.ai.

 

It was so important for me to find out what that news report said and I have finally found out after I waited 13 years unable to translate it.

 

Thankyou so much

[fabiothebest]

I'm glad I could help. I think the service works very well. It could be useful again in the future for you

[fabiothebest]

On 9/5/2024 at 9:57 AM, becky82 said:

I use https://jianwai.youdao.com for making subtitles for my YouTube videos (when they're in Chinese).

I was trying this, I saw there are several tools. Does the website require that you upload the video file? I didn't see an option for providing a link. I wanted to try to transcribe a Youtube video.

[fabiothebest]

I went ahead and created a transcript with Jianwai Youdao. To access the function we need to click on the second item called 视频转写. I share my thoughts comparing Turboscribe and Jianwai Youdao.

 

Turboscribe free:

pro: 

it also accepts youtube links

faster

maybe better accuracy

ability to export in the following formats: pdf, docx, txt, srt

supports a lot of languages

 

cons:

 

up to 30 minutes per video in the free version

up to 3 transcripts/day

 

Jianwai Youdao:

 

pro:

- it seems it doesn't have a length limit, but a file size limit of 100 Mb (it's possible to reduce the file size and transcribe potentially longer videos)

- it let's you edit or replace words manually

- no limit on transcribed videos if I understood well

 

cons:

- it doesn't accept links, only video files

- in my brief test I spotted some mistakes in the transcription, Whisper should have a better accuracy. A native speaker could easily correct mistakes, for us learners its more difficult, accuracy is very important

- it only supports Chinese and English (which is fine for my use case)

- maybe slower (for my test video 45 minutes long, it showed it could take an average of 28 minutes to transcribe. After some minutes I tried refreshing and the task was complete, so maybe it's actually faster than the estimated time)

- only exports as srt (which is fine for my use case)

- transcripts older than 15 days get automatically deleted by the website (not a big problem for me)

 

 

[becky82]

One other thing you might want to consider is whether it can handle bilingual audio.  In some of my videos, I speak both English and Chinese (sometimes within the same sentence), and sometimes they're transcribed as if the whole thing is in Chinese.  It means if I want to add subtitles to my videos, I need to speak one or the other, not both.

 

Jianwai Youdao, the last time I used it, was limited to 2 hours per day.  You can download the audio for a YouTube video using youtube-dl -x (if I remember correctly) and upload that.