I’ve tried to batch several short films to unmix transcription. Spectralayers appears to process them and saves the audio files to target folder but no transcription is found.
I opened the processed film soundtracks in Spectralayers but there’s no transcription evident anywhere. Nor were any separate .srt files generated anywhere. Is this what is supposed to happen? Am I overlooking something?
After using Unmix Transcription, the text will be placed at the bottom of Spectralayers in sync with the audio waveform.
Right click any of the text and you can choose from
- Edit Transcript
- Export Transcript
You can choose between SRT, TXT, and CSV format.
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your response. The process you described is exactly what I do, however it only works with one movie at a time.
I was hoping to batch process several short films in a row. So let’s say I place 10 short films in the batch queue with only the Transcription module in the batch process.
Spectralayers creates a Transcription for only the first file which stays open. The remaining 9 films’ audio tracks placed into the target folder as wav files with no subtitles for them. Opening any one of those wave files in Spectralayers displays a waveform but no evidence of a transcription.
I’m guessing either Spectralayers cannot create subtitles for any more than one film or audio file at a time or there’s a bug in the batch process.
I see.
What you can use as an alternative is - if you are using Winodws - the free Subtitle Edit. It supports installing several different language models and doing batch processing.
Get it here:
https://www.nikse.dk
I’d recommend selecting Purfview’s Faster Whisper XXL as your model.
It will create SRT files, but Subtitle Edit has also a tool for batch converting this to any format you want (it supports about 100 different formats).
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Wow. Thanks Robert. I’ll look into your suggestion promptly.