leahhirst/oxfordhack

OxfordHack 2017 - Chrome plugin adding automatic audio description to native web video.

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Watch The Video - Chrome plugin adding automatic audio description of native videos.

Features

• Automatic audio description of videos (tested with YouTube, Vimeo and native HTML video tags),
• Toggle AD with keyboard shortcut (by default, Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + 5)
• Change the Text-to-Speech voice,
• Change the scene detection threshold

Installation

Now on the Chrome Web Store! Download now!

Download and extract the repository.

Using chrome, navigate to chrome://extensions, enable developer mode by clicking the 'Developer mode' checkbox at the top right of the page.

Load the extension using the 'Load unpack extension...' button and select the extracted folder (with the manifest.json file inside).

Open the popup and enter your Microsoft Cognitive Services Computer Vision API key (learn more here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/cognitive-services/computer-vision/ )

oxfordhack's Issues

Thresholding issues on specific videos

Disable/enable changes YouTube like count text

Auto sync settings

Register event handler on sync update.

Sometimes need to disable and reenable audio description when streaming

Keyboard shortcuts

Play/Pause Functionality Improvement

Change icon when enabled/disabled

Display logo in settings popup

Voices[10] is not always english

Platform dependent

Need a logo