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Exporting all captions
I have created a Storyline360 file, and each slide has its own audio and closed captioning created within Articulate. I can export the closed captions for individuals slides but can I export all captions for the whole file?
Also when I publish to video the captions don't appear to come with it, and I then need to attach a caption file?
I am VERY new to this, and hope some can help.
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Hello!
I have the same request: will we have soon the ability to export all the captions in one single file? (ideally separated by screen numbers) Thanks in advance
@Laurent,
Just curious, what would be the purpose of exporting all captions into one file and then indicating which slides (screen numbers) they come from?
Speaking for myself: as I work for translation companies I need to extract captions, videos and images for translation, and then import them again in translated file (and for that export/import via xliff is great). Import audio and subtitle files one by one is very very time consuming.
@Thor,
The reason is quite similar to editha ; I implement a first version of my training modules with the speech synthesis included in SL360, then my customer makes the voices recorded by a professional studio, and I reimport them. So for the studio, we need to provide a file where the voice-over are precisely written, screen by screen. We create manually an Excel file (based on the Word export), which is quite fastidious.
@Laurent and @editha,
I may have a solution that would meet both of your needs. If you're interested, please reply privately to me or via LinkedIn (which tends to work better as sometimes private messages aren't delivered.)
Hello Thor,
Why privately ? This should stay a public discussion ;o)
Our clients also express the same need for easier translations. This would be a highly appreciated feature! Actually, two features:
- Export all closed captions as VTT files in bulk (for translation, with the ability to reimport translated VTT files into Storyline).
- Export all closed captions as a single XLSX file (for translating voice-over transcripts and simplifying recording): 1 column with audio titles + 1 column with the closed captions, 1 line per audio.
Thank you for taking this request into consideration.
Adding my support for this feature request. Being able to download all captions at once is becoming essential for accessibility review and compliance workflows. Exporting VTT files slide-by-slide is extremely time-consuming for larger courses, and a bulk download option would make caption review significantly more efficient.
Thanks for sharing your feedback. I added your voice to this request: Export all captions in a course to a single file. We’ll keep you updated on any developments.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have additional feedback or questions.
I am trying to see the difficulty in the development. You have the capability to select all slides and export the audio to a file.
Select all slides and execute the function to export the Closed Captions and iterate through the selected files.
If you can get us the individual files, we can get them into a single file.I think the issue is that, while captions are just text, they come with time stamps. From what I'm reading in this thread-
- people don't want the time stamps
- people do want a transcript of the entire course
You can't style-tag the timestamps separate from the captions, because the markup language will interfere with the srt or vtt being a plain text document. So this ask requires Articulate to build some kind of extractor into the text-to-speech function ("write text to transcript document, and write text to captions document with time stamp; store those in parallel in separate places").
Going forward, a developer could put their language in the notes, copy the notes to text-to-speech, and just export the course to Word; but its not that easy to offer that output retroactively for already authored content. Articulate is a compositing tool, not an authoring tool. Developers, historically, looked for these needs before production.
