Transcribing Educational Videos Using Whisper: A preliminary study on using AI for transcribing educational videos

Ashwin Rao

Abstract:

Videos are increasingly being used for e-learning, and transcripts are vital to enhance the learning experience.
The costs and delays of generating transcripts can be alleviated by automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems.
In this article, we quantify the transcripts generated by whisper for 25 educational videos and identify some open avenues of research when leveraging ASR for transcribing educational videos.

Our code and datasets are publicly available at: https://version.helsinki.fi/transcribe-educational-videos/preliminary-study-dai2023/