Make subtitles using Sunet Scribe

Sunet Scribe

Sunet Scribe is a speech-to-text service where users upload audio or video files for transcription and export to text or subtitle files.

Sunet Scribe is a high-quality automated transcription, with tools to allow the user to perform post-processing if necessary.

The service is built to handle sensitive personal data and information that needs protection. The content is processed in isolated container environments and automatically deleted after a certain period of time.

Please note that the service is not intended for material that is comprised by the security protection legislation.

Who are the main target groups?

• Doctoral students and researchers that for instance need transcription of interview material
• Communicators and teachers that need to create accessible subtitles for external communication or education material

Who has access to Sunet Scribe?

All employees have access to Sunet Scribe.

Temporary access can be given to persons with connection to KTH, such as students or external doctoral students that have a KTH project or similar. Please contact Contact KTH IT-Support  with your inquiry if you are not an employee.

How yo use Sunet Scribe 

Brief information on how to use Sunet Scribe. Extended information is available in the PDF file linked here on the page.

Login to Sunet Scribe

When you log in to Sunet Scribe for the first time, you need to log in with SSO, which means that the login is using multi-factor authentication  and that you need to have your mobile device available. 

Once you have logged in and authenticated, you will need to create a personal passphrase (like a password) and use it to log in. The following times you only need to use your passphrase to log in.

If you lose your personal passphrase, you can generate a new one yourself, but you will not be able to access and download previously transcribed material created during the occasions when you used your old passphrase.

You log in by going to the page scribe.sunet.se .

Video captioning

Sunet Scribe differs somewhat from KTH Play in that Sunet Scribe does not insert text directly onto the video file, but instead it creates a text file in standard video subtitle format that then can be used with the video file. This means that you can, for example, create several different subtitle files that are subtitled and translated in different languages, which you can then use with the video file.

For instance you can use pre-recorded videos in KTH play by Download a video from KTH Play  (which you can then remove and delete from KTH play as it is not a storage space for unpublished videos) and then upload that file to Sunet Scribe.

Transcription of video or audio file

Sunet Scribe handles most common formats for importing video and audio files and a variety of formats for exporting

• Import formats include: mp3, mp4, wav, avi, mov, ogg and more.
• Export formats include: txt, json, rtf, csv, tsv

Other information

At wiki.sunet.se  you can read more about the service (information in Swedish).

If you have any questions or need help, please Contact KTH IT-Support