Quickly and easily add closed captioning to all video and audio content in Studio using the Auto-Closed Captioning feature.
Ensure accessibility, flexibility, and inclusivity for all learners.
Add auto-generated closed captioning on the following features in Studio:
AI Avatar Videos - Synthesia
AI Avatar Videos - Colossyan
AI Text-to-video - Pictory
Standard Video
Audio Player
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DIY STEPS
How to Add Auto-closed Captions in Studio
First, create your chosen media element by adding the script and then generating the video or audio (NOTE: the example screenshots demonstrate the steps for an AI Avatar video).
To add auto-close captions to your audio or video content, complete the following steps:
Open the edit panel for the media component.
Click the “cc” to auto-generate the closed captions
A message will appear at the bottom of the screen letting you know you can navigate away from the page while the closed captions are generating
Once your closed captions have finished generating, you’ll see the file appear under closed captions in the left edit panel, and you’ll see a message appear at the bottom of the screen.
A closed caption “cc” indicator will now appear on the video
Click on the “cc” indicator to enable the closed captioning text when viewing the video.
How to Edit a Closed Captioning Script
Click on the download icon in the Closed Captions section of the Edit Panel
This will open a new window with your closed caption file.
Right click anywhere in the new window where the file is displayed and click “Save as“.
Select the location you would like to save the file to and save it to your computer.
Open the file in a text editor Notepad (Windows), Text Edit (Mac).
Note: do not open this file in Microsoft Word or other document editors.
Mac example shown below:
Make the desired updates to the file and save the file.
Now, go back to the media element in Studio, and click on the trash to remove the current file.
Click the plus to re-upload the file with your edits to be used with the desired media element.
Click the “cc” to auto-generate the closed captions and follow the steps above to complete the action.
FAQ
What features in Studio can I auto-generate closed captions?
The closed captioning microservice allows Studio authors to enable closed captioning on all audio features in Studio, which includes:
AI Avatar Videos - Synthesia
AI Avatar Videos - Colossyan
AI Text-to-video - Pictory
Standard Video
Audio Player
How do I edit the auto-created closed captions?
Occasionally closed caption files may generate with an issue such as a word mismatch, or grammatical or punctuation error. If this happens you can do the following to correct the issue:
Click the download button shown next to the auto-generated closed caption file.
This will open a new window with your closed caption file.
Right click anywhere in the new window where the file is displayed and click “Save as“. Select the location you would like to save the file to and save it to your computer.
Open the file in a text editor Notepad (Windows), Text edit (Mac). Note: do not open this file in Microsoft Word or other document editors.
Make the desired updates to the file and save the file.
Now, re-upload the file with your edits to be used with the desired media file/template.
What languages are supported by the closed captioning microservice?
Abkhaz - ab-GE
Afrikaans - af-ZA
Arabic, Gulf - ar-AE
Arabic, Modern - ar-SA
Armenian - hy-AM
Asturian - ast-ES
Azerbaijani - az-AZ
Bashkir - ba-RU
Basque - eu-ES
Belarusian - be-BY
Bengali - bn-IN
Bosnian - bs-BA
Bulgarian - bg-BG
Catalan - ca-ES
Central Kurdish, Iran - ckb-IR
Central Kurdish, Iraq - ckb-IQ
Chinese, Simplified - zh-CN
Chinese, Traditional - zh-TW
Croatian - hr-HR
Czech - cs-CZ
Danish - da-DK
Dutch - nl-NL
English, Australian - en-AU
English, British - en-GB
English, Indian - en-IN
English, Irish - en-IE
English, New Zealand - en-NZ
English, Scottish - en-AB
English, South African - en-ZA
English, US - en-US
English, Welsh - en-WL
Estonian - et-ET
Farsi - fa-IR
Finnish - fi-FI
French - fr-FR
French, Canadian - fr-CA
Galician - gl-ES
Georgian - ka-GE
German - de-DE
German, Swiss
Greek - el-GR
Gujarati - gu-IN
Hausa - ha-NG
Hebrew - he-IL
Hindi, Indian - hi-IN
Hungarian - hu-HU
Icelandic - is-IS
Indonesian - id-ID
Italian - it-IT
Japanese - ja-JP
Kabyle - kab-DZ
Kannada - kn-IN
Kazakh - kk-KZ
Kinyarwanda - rw-RW
Korean - ko-KR
Kyrgyz - ky-KG
Latvian - lv-LV
Lithuanian - lt-LT
Luganda - lg-IN
Macedonian - mk-MK
Malay - ms-MY
Malayalam - ml-IN
Maltese - mt-MT
Marathi - mr-IN
Meadow Mari - mhr-RU
Mongolian - mn-MN
Norwegian Bokmål - no-NO
Odia/Oriya - or-IN
Pashto - ps-AF
Polish - pl-PL
Portuguese - pt-PT
Portuguese, Brazilian - pt-BR
Punjabi - pa-IN
Romanian - ro-RO
Russian - ru-RU
Serbian - sr-RS
Sinhala - si-LK
Slovak - sk-SK
Slovenian - sl-SI
Somali - so-SO
Spanish - es-ES
Spanish, US - es-US
Sundanese - su-ID
Swahili, Kenya - sw-KE
Swahili, Burundi - sw-BI
Swahili, Rwanda - sw-RW
Swahili, Tanzania - sw-TZ
Swahili, Uganda - sw-UG
Swedish - sv-SE
Tagalog/Filipino - tl-PH
Tamil - ta-IN
Tatar - tt-RU
Telugu - te-IN
Thai - th-TH
Turkish - tr-TR
Ukrainian - uk-UA
Uyghur - ug-CN
Uzbek - uz-UZ
Vietnamese - vi-VN
Welsh - cy-WL
Wolof - wo-SN
Zulu - zu-ZA
