Closed captions are the scripts appear on the screen, correct? I have recorded text-to-speech outside of Storyline and import the audio file. Is this still exportable? Or, is there a way to generate closed captions from this audio file?
No, the audio that you have in Storyline isn't exportable as text. Storyline just knows that there is an audio file there, it doesn't know what the audio is saying.
There are some tools that you can use to generate text from audio (e.g. YouTube can automatically generate closed captions), but even then, you'll just be left with text (or closed captions with time stamps). This won't be exported from Storyline as part of the "Publish to Word" option.
If you want that to happen, you'll need to manually add the text to the slide notes. Then you can publish to word with the "show slide notes" option enabled.
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Do you have closed captions for the voice-over? If so, you could export those.
Hi!
Closed captions are the scripts appear on the screen, correct?
I have recorded text-to-speech outside of Storyline and import the audio file. Is this still exportable? Or, is there a way to generate closed captions from this audio file?
No, the audio that you have in Storyline isn't exportable as text. Storyline just knows that there is an audio file there, it doesn't know what the audio is saying.
There are some tools that you can use to generate text from audio (e.g. YouTube can automatically generate closed captions), but even then, you'll just be left with text (or closed captions with time stamps). This won't be exported from Storyline as part of the "Publish to Word" option.
If you want that to happen, you'll need to manually add the text to the slide notes. Then you can publish to word with the "show slide notes" option enabled.
Hi Matthew,
thank you for your reply. I doubted that is the case.
Ya, I will manually copy and paste the text for this voice over for translation.
Thank you!
No worries Junko. All the best.