What is Opened Captions?
At a high level Opened captions gives you a live text stream of C-Span Channel 1 captions.
Project by Dan Schultz, made while on a Knight-Mozilla fellowship at the Boston Globe.
Opened Captions service overview
Ingridients
Getting a live transcript requires three things:
- A video feed that can be connected to a computer.
- Something (hardware or software) to extract and parse closed captions.
- A server to push those captions to the web.
Components:
Video feed converter
- Hd home run
- Text grabber
- Direct tv
- Home runner
Separate captions encoded in video feed
(bitmaps, ASCII chat) output as plain text
- CC extractor
Distribution and formatting
- Opened Caption
More info on original setup here