Software to convert audio/video to text?

[Rian]

Is there a software to convert audio and video to text? (Japanese!)

 

[Mike Cash]

If there were, the "I love Japanese cartoons but I'm too lazy to learn Japanese properly" fansub community would have already discovered it.

Video, by definition, is impossible to convert to text.

 

[Toritoribe]

Is there a software to convert audio and video to text? (Japanese!)

As for audio files, yes some software exist.
e.g.
音声認識ソフト AmiVoice SP2 ICレコーダーからの書起し

In other words, you need to rip an audio file (wma. wmv, mp3, etc.) from the video to use these kind of software. The recognition rate of conversations would be (probably rather) lower than usual voice input method through a microphone, though.

 

[lanthas]

Youtube has builtin speech recognition: all you need to do is enable closed captions. Of course, what it produces is mostly gibberish.

 

[cocoichi]

Youtube has builtin speech recognition: all you need to do is enable closed captions. Of course, what it produces is mostly gibberish.

It's so bad that when you turn of the sound and just read the subtitles, you think the person speaking is either drunk or on some very interesting candies.