Jonathan, 2008/6/4 Jonathan Hassell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Tom - good question. I don't have the answer for you immediately but, as > one of the people behind subtitling online at the BBC, I'll look into this > for you. > I'm really pleased to hear this. I've been going on about it for years and met with reasons why not. What would be LOVELY would be if the subtitles could be combined with timing information and then this could be linked to the iPlayer. So, you could come to Google (or the BBC Search) and enter a phrase you heard during a programme and not just find the programme and the timing, but directly link to the actual point in the programme on the iPlayer. > > J. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk <backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk> > Sent: Wed Jun 04 09:31:21 2008 > Subject: Re: [backstage] Adding Subtitles/transcripts to /programmes pages > > Sorry to bring this topic back up but i would really like to hear from > some of the people in the BBC about it. > > Having the scripts of each show, either in pain text or other format, > on the /programmes would be a great resource. it would allow people to > search and find information/section of BBC content, which would > attract users to the BBC, being a valuable index into the contents. > > This information, I would of expected to be, already be available from > the subtitles that either BBC Subtitles or Red Bee (do they do BBC > stuff as well as commercial stations?) so it shouldn't be a great > effort to make this available. > > On a slightly selfish note, it would be great as I could use these on > iplayer streams that don't have subtitles on my xmbc. I can easily see > the xbmc-iplayer script being modified to be able to prefetch the > programmes subtitles and play them with the stream. > > Would making this information publically available be a lot of effect? > Am I being to hopeful? > > Many thanks > > Tom > > 2008/4/14 Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Tom Jacobs wrote: > >> > >> i think it would be really useful if the BBC made available the > >> subtitles for their TV shows via the /programmes pages (or any other > >> accessible, searchable API). > > > > Yes, it would be nice. > > > > You can get access to them via a DVB card in your PC, of course, but > because > > they're broadcast as pre-rendered bitmaps, you'd have to OCR them before > you > > could do anything useful with them. A few people have gone down this > road - > > some friends and I gave a talk and a demo on the subject back at Open > Tech > > 2005. > > > > http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2005/schedule/stephen_jolly.pdf > > > > S > > > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, > please > > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > > Unofficial list archive: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
