Those who saw the Scribe caption editor at NAB 2017 experienced a radically new version of the product: a much-improved user interface, and several major new features designed to make caption work much more efficient and intuitive.
It took a few weeks to get this new version available to our customers using Scribe on-demand through Amazon Web Services, but the new version is now listed, with details here.
If you have worked with Scribe before but haven't updated or seen the new look yet, I'd highly recommend it. We added a new main navigation timeline which orients captions graphically alongside shot-detection stills and an audio analysis waveform, and the whole timeline view is zoomable to see as much as the whole project or as little as needed to graphically place captions with a high degree of precision, without continous jogging of the video. The previous "card" view of the captions, better for detailed text editing, is included as an alternate tab that can be reached by double-clicking any caption text within the new timeline.
The new Scribe also contains integration with Lexi, our cloud-based automatic captioning platform. When you request services from Lexi, Scribe uploads a fast media proxy to the Lexi engine, and receives a text-and-timings file that can be exported directly in closed caption or subtitle formats, edited on the timeline in Scribe, or compared to a pre-existing transcript to create automatic timing alignment.
AWS Scribe customers just need to sign up for Lexi through eegcloud.tv. After creating an account with your email address, go to the Subscriptions page and select "Offline Speech Recognition". You'll need to enter a vaild credit card, but the first 60 minutes every month is complementary. Further time is currently priced at only $6 for an additional 60 minutes of transcription. We're hoping this can be a huge time saver helping more customers create more captioning with lower frustration and costs. Please let us know what you think!