Live transcript saving

[ChrisC790]

At the moment I think saving the transcript to a txt file only occurs after a stream/recording is done. Is it possible to commit new lines to the txt output in real time or after every line that is spoken?

[ratwithacompiler]

Currently it just uses default behaviour so should flush whenever the buffer is full every couple KBs but adding an option for that in the future would be doable 🤔.

[prettypinkpansy]

Just wanted to pop in and say I would love if this was an option. It would allow me to add it as a source, and I'd really like to have it available as a source so I can adjust the font/color/placement/et cetera for my stream layout (I have a fun idea to do with it).

[goddamnsuperhero]

Making an additional comment here, would be very useful to be able to feed this into other tools.

[HighPotential1]

Made a potentially redundant post so I wanted to bump here as well. Although this discussion seems focused on the transcript, I think the functionality being requested would fit well into the Open Captions too. Sending the open captions to a text file and updating/clearing it accordingly instead of constantly updating the transcript file. Superhero makes a good point about it opening the possibility to integrate into other programs easily.

[Destroy666x]

Big +1 for this. Saving e.g. last sentence/caption in some lastcaption.txt would be so useful. You could e.g. check the contents with Advanced Scene Switcher and execute a macro if text is matching. Endless automation possibilities.

[aprilsourz]

I'd also love this feature. Has anyone figured out how to get access to the caption text in real time?

[Destroy666x]

Use OBS localvocal. This is dead.