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Start the next caption a fraction later.Change the words to fit, but preserve the meaning.This seemed heretical to me at first! But losing words such as “like”, “just”, “right” or “actually” usually wasn’t detrimental to the overall message. Remove a word or two so that the caption fitted with the timing.In this case I had a few choices to solve the problem:
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Plus Amara has its own guidelines in a pop-up. The BBC’s subtitle guidelines give some good advice. Repeated text – if a few words were repeated, I only included one instance. (Another speaker) Using brackets before the text I used a couple of methods to indicate a different speaker: Other speakers – the majority of the video was Graham presenting, but also speaking on the video were the MC for the track and an audience member asking a question. Quotations – when a person was quoted in the talk, I used single quote marks around their speech.
I chose to cut them out as they didn’t add anything to the meaning. Ums, ahs, and ers – these filler words are known as disfluencies in speech. Spelling – did I use British English or American English? Because the speaker was British, I went with the former. I found there were quite a few things to think about regarding how I presented the captions. You need to make choices about capturing speech verbatim I was tempted once or twice to have single words as captions, and got this warning from Amara:īriefly displayed subtitles are hard to read the duration should be more than 700 milliseconds. Because unlike reading a transcript, you can’t scan back so easily in a video. I had to make decisions about where to break sentences so that the sense wouldn’t be lost. You also shouldn’t have more than two lines of text visible on screen at one time. But there is a captioning rule that each line of text shouldn’t be more than 21 characters. The next issue I encountered was that sentences in a talk can be quite long and run on. It obviously helps if you are a fast and accurate typist.īy the time I had finished my subtitles I was on my 75th revision!Īmara subtitles revision 75 Don’t make each caption too long I had to replay sections of the video quite a few times to get all the words. Although the video I chose was shorter than an hour (just under 36 minutes) it took me much, much longer to type up all the speech. The time depends on factors such as the quality of audio, number of speakers involved and how technical the subject is.Īlso, bear in mind that these figures are for experienced transcribers. Transcribing video takes a long timeĪccording to this blog post on transcription time it can take between 4 and 9 hours to transcribe an hour of audio. I started off the captioning not long after the Contributor Day, then it went on to the back burner until I picked it up a few weeks ago. The topic was Designing for Accessibility – quite appropriate!
I chose to transcribe a talk by Graham Armfield from WordCamp Manchester 2017.
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How to add closed captioning to a video – what I learned (Watch the video and) type what you hear.However, there are actually some further steps between 2 and 3 in Amara, i.e.:
#How to add closed captioning to a video free#
On every video there’s a link to Subtitle this video, which takes you to a link with the following video on how to get started: recommends using the free Amara editor to subtitle a video. Nevertheless, I also wanted to try and redress the balance a tiny bit by having a go at captioning a video myself. And that’s without double-checking what you have written and re-listening the video.
Here’s one example: A still from a captioned video with Rian Rietveld Find out more about open captions vs closed captions.)Ĭhecking now (December 2019) I count 57 subtitled videos on. Closed captions can be toggled on or off. (Open captions, which are more commonly used on social media videos, are burned into the video. Two of the captioned videos there are 6 pages of them in all