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Searchie-like function for desktop use?

by SageSound
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Does anybody know of any software that will transcribe audio and video files on your desktop machine, build an index, and make them searchable, similar to what Searchie(dot)io offers?

It seems more and more marketers are switching almost exclusively to webinars or Camtasia-style videos for their training, and providing almost no written materials. So while I may remember that some topic was discussed somewhere on one of the videos, I have no way to know which one or find it easily.

If a company does not see fit to use Searchie to host their materials, I'm not going to go to the expense and risk of setting up an account there and upload their videos just for my own personal use.

I can see someone selling a $10 training video not wanting to do this. But I've got stuff that cost me several thousand dollars and it's a dozen or two hours of video content with no indexes other than the general topic of each video (its filename) and how long it is.

I want something I can use to build my own local library that does what Searchie does, (transcribing, indexing, and making searchable) at a one-time fee, that's only for use with content residing on my machine (not online).
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  • Profile picture of the author dave_hermansen
    Well, this video describes two ways to do that, both which are free, and he claims both methods work better than any paid software he has tried.


    Now, that's only going to transcribe them, but you could certainly do a search within any (or all) documents to find the content you want.

    Really, though, I would think that you would want something that puts a video time mark on the transcription and I know of nothing that will do that.
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  • Profile picture of the author SageSound
    EDITED: This solution isn't very practical if you've got, say, 25x 1-hour videos you want to transcribe and index. And it doesn't capture the time when things were said.

    You can get a transcription with time-codes simply by uploading a video to YT. Click the '. . .' in the submenu after several hours and you'll see there's an option to get a transcription.

    There are actually four different formats available and you can download them via the YT Dashboard. It's a manual process, but doable without too much trouble.

    But then you'd have to put the transcriptions with time-codes into a database of some sort and when you search for some text, it would search one or all files and then present a list of hits.

    I'd like to be able to just click a line and it would display the video positioned at that timecode and start playing. I'd just like it really simple to watch the places where something is discussed.
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