Automatically generated captions
YouTube generates captions automatically for most videos. This is useful even if you are not using Youtube to serve them; you can download the resulting captions file to use on other video platforms. For example, if I want to share a video on Facebook or Twitter or transcribe an interview for an article.
And if you need to convert the captions file to another format there are plenty of websites that offer the service for free,
There are a couple of downsides:
- They are not generated instantly.
- They are never accurate because the captions are generated by machine-learning algorithms.
Tags: .srt, accessibility, automatic captions, captions, transcript, video, YouTube
Working with non-profits, charities, voluntary and public sector organisations and social enterprises for over 20 years. Jim set up one of the worlds first website accessibility web agencies in the mid 1990s.