📝 Scribe

Scribe is an accessability-focused application that is meant to help students, especially deaf and hard-of-hearing students, to obtain accurate and clear transcriptions of lecture recordings.

A student or professor can easily upload a locally downloaded mp4 file, or provide a web link to a video hosted online by YouTube or the user's school. If video captions are available as a part of the video uploaded, those will be used. Otherwise, a video transcription will be generated. A pdf will be produced that includes video transcription text interlaced with images of the uploaded video at the appropriate timestamp. The user can then download, print, or e-mail the resulting pdf.

Additional features include language translation to a language of the user's choosing, and user-editing of the resulting transcription to ensure the best accuracy possible in the final transcription pdf.

Scribe also has many other possible uses for thoroughly documenting any type of lecture or presentation.

App Walkthough GIF

**Upload or provide the link of the video you want transcribed

**See your transcription and edit for accuracy, then get a pdf of screenshots and transcriptions

🌎 View on the web:

Scribe is hosted by Heroku.

🔨 Scribe is built with:

• Heroku
• IBM Watson
• MoviePy
• SendGrid
• googletrans
• FPDF
• Python3
• jQuery
• Bootstrap
• MDB

🤓 Authors

• Mae LaPresta
• Noah Johnston
• Ken Nguyen
• Elizabeth Tackett

Scribe was created for the Summer 2020 BeaverHacks Hackathon

💻 Work locally:

• Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/kenkoolio/team_tbd.git
• From the command line, navigate into the team_tbd directory.
• Execute the following commands on the command line:

Set up

virtualenv venv -p $(which python3)
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip3 install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
export API_KEY=[IBM_WATSON_API_KEY]
export API_URL=[IBM_WATSON_API_URL]
export SESSION_KEY=[SESSION KEY]
export SENDGRID_API_KEY=[SENDGRID_API_KEY]

# On mac OS High Sierra, you may need the following
export OBJ_DISABLE_INITIALIZE_FORK_SAFETY=yes

• Note that you will need to obtain an IBM_WATSON_API_KEY for IBM_WATSON_API_URL from Cloud IBM Watson, as well as a SENDGRID_API_KEY from SendGrid.
• The SESSION_KEY environment variable can be anything.

Running the Flask App

source ./venv/bin/activate
export FLASK_APP=run.py
python -m flask run -h 0.0.0.0 -p XXXX --reload

• Visit http://0.0.0.0/:XXXX in your browser.