features-list.md

Features List - draft

Player controls

• play/pause
• Current time + duration display
• Adjust Playback rate
• auto pause while typing
• Roll back button 15 sec 10 sec default, customizable amount

Currently not in scope

• Adjust timecodes <— set a timecode offset - default to zero
• UI Turn off video preview (toggle on/off)
• Jump to timecode <— in timecode hh:mm:ss:ms format or (hh:mm:ss:ms hh:mm:ss mm:ss m:ss m.ss seconds)

Keyboard Shortcuts

Currently not in scope

• Keyboard Shortcuts
• customizable Keyboard Shortcuts

HyperTranscript - interactivity

• On text word double click at timecode -> media current time set to word timecode
• Paragraphs highlighted at current time
• Words highlighted at current time <—-
• Preserve timecodes via seperatee sync btn for now (🔁)
• Preserve timecodes while editing (eg via debounce function? ) <-- TBC

Currently not in scope

• Scroll Sync, keep current word in view <— (toggle on/off)

Transcript Extra Info

• Display Timecodes at paragraph level (with offset if present)
• Display editable speaker names at paragraph level - speaker diarization info

Save

• Save btn - triggers save callback for parent component to decide what to dp
• auto save (without effecting performance, eg when user stops typing ) <-- TBC
• Save locally - (local storage)
• Save locally - on interval, eg every x char
• Save to server API end point - Btc
• Save to server API end point - on interval

Import

• option to import accurate text to replace STT one and transpose timecodes (↑↓)

Export

Text/Word

• Export plain text - without speaker names or timecodes
• Customizable Export plain text, eg with timecodes, speakers names etc..
  • text only
  • with speaker names
  • with timecodes
  • with timecodes & speaker names
• Plain text (Atlas format)
• Export word document .docx)
  • text only
  • with speaker names
  • with timecodes
  • with timecodes & speaker names
• Word document (OHMS)

Captions/Subtitles

• SRT
• VTT
  • VTT (with speakers)
  • VTT (with speakers & preserving paragraph breaks)
• CSV
• iTT
• TTML (Adobe Premiere)
• Json
• presegmented text
• IIIF
• SMT and/or CTM ?

Dev export options

• dpe json (see here for more details on format)
• slateJs json

Mobile First

• Works on mobile

Browser compatibility

• Works on Chrome / Brave
• Firefox
• Windows Explorer IE

Dev - STT Adapters

Import Transcript Json as

• dpe json (see here for more details on dpe format)

Input only available in one format, but external modules adapters available for other formats to convert to dpe json

Current Separate adpaters modules available:

• AssemblyAI assemblyai-to-dpe
• AWS Transcriber aws-to-dpe
• Google STT gcp-to-dpe
• IBM Watson STT (in PR pietrop/digital-paper-edit-electron#52 module ibmwatson-to-dpe but not extracted as separate module npm/github repo)

Not in scope

• Speechmatics (There's a speechmatics-to-dpe module but not extracted as a separate npm/github repo/module - since speechmatics web portal API deprecation notice)
• BBC Kaldi
• News Labs API - BBC Kaldi
• autoEdit 2
• Gentle Transcription
• Gentle Alignment Json
• Rev
• 3play Media Json

If you are interest in an adapter that is currently not avaialble or you made one that could be useful for the community feel free to raise an issue