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Add transcript to embeddable player
Sam Sethi
Having spent time editing the transcription. It would be great to display a Descript audio player and the transcription on my website.
I can copy the text and display that. But I have to export the audio into. another player to display it. It would be super cool to allow visitors to play the audio on my site and have it synch with the text.
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Andrew Mason
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We're adding close captions in the next release, but this will be a bit further out.
Jacob Harmon
If you're going to do this, think of a way to make it help SEO on the page too :) It'd be awesome if all of the transcript words could be crawled by search engines.
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Lucien Lu
Honestly, this would bring so many people over from Wistia. I'm using Descript for my membership app and site - Descript could be the #1 editing + publishing tool.
Customers from Adobe.
Customers from Wistia.
Customers from Vimeo.
You guys would take over so much market share with this!
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Max Kafka
Lucien Lu: Yes - the video embed needs to be responsive, but after that, 100% I would switch from wistia.
Carri Craver
Max Kafka: I'm using Webflow and the responsive pary is pretty easy to do there.
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Yoz Grahame
Here's a great example of an interactive transcript: https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/unintended-consequences/ep-1-defending-our-thesis-with-dr-aleks-krotoski-of-bbc-radio-4/
* Mousing over a paragraph shows the timecode on the right hand side
* Clicking any word starts the player at that word
See also the feature request for "Word-level timestamps in subtitle export". If there was a way to output transcript data in an easily-parseable format (e.g. JSON, XML) then it would be a relatively simple scripting job to create an interactive transcript like the one above.
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John Koetsier
Not just to embeddable play via the Descript Publish function. This needs to be available in videos you export: visible text transcript as you watch the video. Then this will work on YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn.
Andrew Mason
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Danno Sullivan
Required for me -- I just assumed that the transcript would be part of the embed since that's such a big part of what makes Descript special. I'm torn because I love the editor so much, but the end result is basically useless for me -- I need the transcript on the page to allow for search.
Danno Sullivan
I see that Sonix has an embed that includes the video and scrolling, clickable text. Their editor is nothing compared to Descript, but it's the end result I'm looking for. Looks like the embed is javascript (???).
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george reid
To push this further I think just having searchable audio on your site is great. A visitor may be looking for a particular topic, if they search a relatable keyword, they can then listen to a small segment on the topic.
In essence, granting them the visibility that we as podcast owners and descript users have.
Derek Jacoby
would love to add my support for this. I am sad that I only realized the functionality was missing as I went to put it on my website!
Faisal Jamshaid
YES! Big upvote!
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