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Automated SRT and VTT Video Captions (April 2020 Update)

What's this blog post about?

AssemblyAI has introduced new acoustic models for UK customers, automated video captioning (SRT/VTT), and automatic transcript summaries. These features will benefit companies in industries like video hosting, media monitoring, e-discovery, or video interviewing by improving video playback and search capabilities. The platform also offers a state-of-the-art model for UK accented English with complete documentation available on their API docs page. Additionally, users can now automatically export transcriptions in SRT or VTT format and utilize automatic transcript highlights to detect key phrases using Natural Language Processing (NLP). AssemblyAI has maintained 100% uptime across all models for the month.

Company
AssemblyAI

Date published
April 1, 2020

Author(s)
Joe Zaghloul

Word count
466

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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