Using the Hyperaudio WordPress Plugin – Part 2

I’m going to quickly show you how to use the Hyperaudio WordPress plugin to create an interactive transcript.

What you will need is a timed transcript or some data that you can can convert into a timed transcript.

It’s best if we have word level timing, so to do this I’ve created a little tool that comes as part of the plugin – if you go to the admin – and that allows you to convert from various formats.

Now the formats you can choose from are things like subtitle format, SRT format and various providers.

I’m going to use Gentle because I’ve got this running.

If you want to use Gentle, Gentle is an aligner it’s a free piece of software, it aligns a transcript to audio, it will also try and transcribe if you don’t have any text, so you can use it as a kind of free transcription service.

So I’ve already got the transcript and I’m just going to grab the JSON and put it in here. Now there’s a few options, I don’t need to take word length into account because we’re not converting from SRT. I can split paragraphs on text. Finishing with punctuation seems like a good idea and I can split on a delay so let’s just do it.

Here we have the markup and here we have the rendered view you can change stuff here if you wanted, correct or add paragraphs as you wish, but we’re really after this markup so I’m going to grab that and then go back to where I was using the shortcode.

Now this is the hyperaudio short code – with a spelling mistake – there where I’ve linked directly to to the file, and in between we want to put the markup.

Okay let’s preview that. So you see we have the video here.

“What does it mean to be human if we don’t have a shared culture and what does a shared culture need if you can’t share it it’s only in the last 100 or 150 years or so that we’ve started. without asking permission… we have all these new technologies to turn loose and get the law out of the way. The work of commons is…”

And you have their usual sharing capability, which will share that exact part and link back directly to that part so that’s really it.

That’s how quick it is.

In the next video – you might have noticed that we have subtitles here, or captions – I’ll show you how that bit works.