videototext
VideotoText is a software framework and service designed to convert video content into textual representations. It integrates audio transcription and on-screen text extraction to produce searchable transcripts, captions, and metadata that facilitate accessibility, indexing, and analysis.
Core features include automatic speech recognition to generate time-stamped transcripts, speaker diarization to identify speakers, punctuation
Output options include plain transcripts, SRT or WebVTT caption files, and JSON metadata or indexable search
Deployment is available as a cloud service, on-premises, or hybrid, and it exposes a developer API and
Applications include improving media accessibility and captioning, enabling content search and discovery, supporting translation workflows, and
Limitations include variable transcription accuracy depending on audio quality and language, OCR challenges with motion or
See also: Speech recognition, Optical character recognition, Captioning, Video indexing.