About

Transcriberer is a tool to assist with transcribing local audio files released under the GPLv3 licence. It exposes convenient keyboard shortcuts for playback control and time stamp insertion without the text input area losing focus.

It was written to assist with the creation of shownotes for SteamLUG Cast and for transcribing audio interviews for Cheese Talks by @Cheeseness.

The types of audio files which can be opened is dependent upon the types of audio files that your browser is capable of playing in a HTML5 audio element.

Source can be found in the Transcriberer GitLab repository, and an unmodified version can be found at Transcriberer web page.

Controls

With the text area in focus (they will not work otherwise), the following controls are available:

Playback

• Shift + Space: Play/pause
• Alt + Up: Increase playback speed by 20%
• Alt + Shift + Up: Increase playback speed by 10%
• Alt + Down: Decrease playback speed by 20%
• Alt + Shift + Down: Decrease playback speed by 10%
• Alt + Home: Reset playback speed to 100%
• Ctrl + R: Reset playback speed
• Ctrl + Up: Increase playback volume
• Ctrl + Down: Decrease playback volume

Seeking

• Alt + Left: Seek backward by 5 seconds
• Alt + Shift + Left: Seek backward by 10 seconds
• Alt + Right: Seek forward by 5 seconds
• Alt + Shift + Right: Seek forward by 10 seconds

Other

• Shift + Enter: Insert or replace a timestamp at the start of the current line
• Ctrl + Enter: Insert a newline and timestamp at cursor position
• Tab: Insert tab character at cursor position
• Ctrl + O: Select audio file to play
• Ctrl + Y: Toggle text snippet tray
• Ctrl + I: Add new text snippet
• Ctrl + Numpad 1 - 9: Insert text snippet
• Ctrl + H: Show this screen

Settings

Some basic customisation options are avaialbe as URL parameters.

Timestamp

By default, Transcriberer will insert timestamps with the following format "hh:mm:ss " which was the format used for SteamLUG Cast's shownotes. This can be changed by adding the ts parameter with a string value that includes one or more of the following along with any desired additional characters:

• hh - hours, padded to two digits
• h - hours with no padding
• mmm - hours and minutes as minutes
• mm - minutes, padded to two digits
• m - minutes with no padding
• sss - hours, minutes, and seconds as seconds
• ss - seconds, padded to two digits
• s - seconds with no padding
• SSS - milliseconds (thousandth of a second)
• SS - decisecond (hundredth of a second)
• S - centisecond (tenth of a second)

Example URL appropriate for Simple LRC: http://transcriberer.jbushproductions.com/?ts=[mmm:ss.SS]

Wrap guide

If a wrap guide is desirable, adding the g parameter with an integer value will give a wrap guide at that number of characters plus the width of the timestamp string.

Example URL appropriate for video subtitles: http://transcriberer.jbushproductions.com/?g=120