Introduction

If you use Atlas TI and you want to import transcripts from oTranscribe or any other transcription tool that export to plain text (eg. Otter.ai), you'll encounter some hurdles:

• The Atlas TI v8 importer expects a specific format for the text files
• Transcription tools can not export to this format
• The Atlas TI v8 importer format is poorly documented, and the importer is buggy

The solution: I wrote two Python scripts to transform oTranscribe or Otter.io output files into a format importable by Atlas TI.

Conversion scripts

For usage instructions, see the documentation in scripts itself.

Otter.ai conversion script

Up-to-date Github Gist link:

Convert transcripts exported by Otter.ai to a format importable by Atlas TI v8

Downloadable of April 9, 2020 :

convert-otter.py

oTranscribe conversion script

Up-to-date Github Gist link:

Convert a Markdown transcript exported by oTranscribe to a format importable by Atlas TI.

Downloadable version of April 9, 2020:

convert-otrans.py

• old versions

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