Simon Says is an AI-driven transcription platform that makes it very easy to transcribe all your interviews and other sound bites effortlessly. We had the opportunity to speak with Shamir Allibhai, CEO of Simon Says, to learn more about the underlying technology and the company’s latest offering: Simon Says Assemble. Their most recent offering, Simon Says Assemble (we reported about it here before), even lets you create a video rough cut of your story based on these automatically generated transcripts. Just drag’n’drop a few pieces of text and start creating a timeline for the NLE of your choice. Simon Says – AI-based transcription Automatically transcribing a given video interview is a long-standing dream of many filmmakers. But it has to be near perfect to make sense. If it’s not good, you’ll spend more time fixing it than it will help you improve your workflow. As Simon Say’s CEO Shamir Allibhai puts it: Only when the transcription is accurate can it be usable. It seems that Simon Says can now deliver these near-perfect transcripts in multiple languages, so they figured it might be a good time to take the next step: What exactly do filmmakers do once the triscript is ready? Well, most likely they build what’s called a paper edit. You look for key sentences in the written document, glue them together, and build a story that way. The next step is to translate those sentences back into timecode ins and outs to track down the corresponding video snippets and...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 14 January, 2021