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Generate closed captions from audio
Hello everyone, 🎉
I have some great news to share! We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 100, we’ve included essential fixes and new features. One of the new features we’ve included is:
- Instantly generate high-quality captions for your audio and video content to boost accessibility.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You’ll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you need additional help.
Okay... I figured out a way that's still time consuming, but MUCH less painful than copy/pasting from the script to Captions:
- Copy the real-voice audio track
- Convert the audio track to TTS
- Generate captions
- Export captions to a VTT (or similar) file
- Paste the original audio track back in
- Import the VTT captions file into the REAL voice track
- Delete the TTS track
It doesn't match up perfectly, but it's close enough (at least in my case) to work without re-sizing the captions. And once you get the hang of it, it takes about the same time to do an entire slide as it does to paste a couple of sentences into Captions.
Still... please put me down as a fervent supporter of the ability to generate captions from a narration audio track, and not just a TTS track. :)
Robbi, thanks for posting this work around. How did you go about converting the real voice audio track to TTS?
Thanks
What would you like to do? Would you like to replace the original voice with an automatic one?
