oTranscribe
oTranscribe is a free web app designed to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews.
- Pause (ESC), rewind (F1) and fast-forward (F2) without taking your hands off the keyboard
- Adjust playback speed with a slider or using F3/F4
- Your transcript is automatically saved to the browser's
localStorage
every second - Rich text support using
contentEditable
- YouTube and video file support
... and more!
Download a copy
Although a web version is available, you can install oTranscribe anywhere by following these steps:
- Download the current ZIP archive.
- Compile the CSS and JS with Grunt (see below for more detailed instructions).
- Upload the files in the newly-generated
dist
folder to a server of your choice.
Please note that, in Chrome, local copies oTranscribe may not run correctly due to the browser's privacy settings.
Compiling the CSS and JavaScript
The src
folder in this repository only includes the "raw" JavaScript and CSS. To compile the production-ready files:
- Install Node.js and NPM.
- Run
npm install -g grunt-cli
to install Grunt - Run
npm install
to install necessary Grunt packages - Run
npm install -g bower
to install Bower - Run
bower install
to install necessary Bower packages - Run
grunt
to compile thedist
folder
Unfamiliar with Grunt? Check out Chris Coyier's excellent guide to this useful build tool.
OTR file format
oTranscribe has its own file format (.otr), which is just a JSON file with the following parameters:
- text: The raw HTML of the transcript
- media: If available, the name of the last media used
- media-source: If available, a link to the last media used
- media-time: If available, the playtime of the last media used
Running tests
While oTranscribe's components are thoroughly tested, the app itself has only limited tests.
To setup, install CasperJS.
Then run a server at the root directory of this repository at http://localhost:8000
, and on the command line run:
casperjs test tests/
Translations
Translations have been provided by the following talented and generous volunteers:
- Catalan: Joan Montané and Jon Sindreu.
- Chinese: baiqj, Cindy Ng and Andy Pan.
- Danish: Christian Bruun.
- Dutch: Patrick Mackaaij and Marjolein Quist.
- French: Olivier Aubert, @goofy-bz and Dr J Rogel-Salazar.
- German: Dr J Rogel-Salazar and Lisa Bernhardt.
- Indonesian: Joy Tikoalu.
- Italian: Dr J Rogel-Salazar, Edoardo Putti and Federico Lasta.
- Japanese: harupong.
- Polish: Emil Maruszczak and Piotr Tarasewicz.
- Portuguese: enVide neFelibata.
- Brazilian Portuguese: Leonardo Barichello.
- Romanian: Iain Apreotesei and Catalina Albeanu
- Spanish: Cristian Duque, Dr J Rogel-Salazar and Adrián Blanco.
- Ukrainian: Myroslav Opyr
More about translating oTranscribe here.
Libraries
oTranscribe is built on the foundations of several awesome projects:
- jQuery
AudioJS(replaced with progressor.js)- Mousetrap
- CDNJS for script hosting
- Font Awesome
- to-markdown
- jquery-clean
- webL10n