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NEW IN RISE 360: Closed Captioning
We’ve just released a powerful new feature in Rise 360: closed captioning. Now you can upload closed caption files to videos to make your content more accessible.
It’s easy to add closed captions to your Rise 360 courses. Just click Edit and select Manage captions in any block that showcases a video. Select the language, and then add your file. You can add as many languages as you like.
We hope you love this helpful new feature!
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Hi, Raising Voices! It sounds like you could use a Storyline Block to insert audio with closed captions in your course.
First, you can replace the text-to-speech audio with your own audio. In Storyline 360, click Audio tools > Options > Replace Audio > Audio from file. Now your audio file has closed captions.
Then, export this slide to Review 360 to insert it in Rise as a Storyline block. Please let me know if that would work for you!
Is it possible to turn off (or close) the closed captions using the Esc key?
I don't think so, but you should be able to use keyboard controls to access and toggle/activate it.
Tab and shift tab move forward and backward along items in the tab order. Space will toggle/activate the button to display the list of available captions, the up and down arrow keys let you navigate the list of captions, including the 'captions off' option and space will again toggle/activate the currently selected item.
Hi, just wondering, do you have a list of the languages you can add as closed captions in Rise?
Hi Nisha! Good question! We don't have a list of all supported languages, but you can add any language that is UTF-8 supported.
- If some letters or characters in your captions are unexpectedly replaced by symbols, make sure your caption files are encoded for UTF-8.
- Closed captions won't display when you're viewing a course from your local hard drive, only when they're hosted on a web server or LMS.
For more information please see Rise 360: How to Add Closed Captioning to a Video
Hi Nisha! Good question! We don't have a list of all supported languages, but you can add any language that is UTF-8 supported.
- If some letters or characters in your captions are unexpectedly replaced by symbols, make sure your caption files are encoded for UTF-8.
- Closed captions won't display when you're viewing a course from your local hard drive, only when they're hosted on a web server or LMS.
For more information please see Rise 360: How to Add Closed Captioning to a Video
HI. I am a new articulate/rise user. I create all of my videos in Camtasia and export captions in .srt format. How do I go about getting these in VTT format so that I can upload them into Rise?
Thanks in advance, Marion
Hi Marion, you would need to use a third-party program to convert the SRT files into VTT. I will defer to the community to share which tools they used to do the conversion.
Hi Marion,
The easiest way to convert .srt files to .vtt files that I've found is to use the https://www.webvtt.org/ website to convert the contents of the srt files.
- You just open the .srt in a text editor
e.g. 'notepad' in windows - copy/paste the text into the website and click convert
- copy the converted text from the website into a text editor
- save and change the file type to .vtt
e.g. in notepad, change 'Save as type' to 'All files' and add '.vtt' to the end of the File name.
- You just open the .srt in a text editor
HI David. That's awesome.
Thanks you!
Marion
Thank you for chiming in with those tips, David!
Glad to help :D
Another great online tool is https://www.happyscribe.com/
It's free and allows you to import your srt files without having to open them or copy the text.
I believe it also maintains any previous timing settings you may have had.
Make sure you use the 'Import Subtitles' option on the site.
CheersGreat! Thank you, Marion
I don't have this option in the version of Rise 360 I have. Can someone help, please?!
Hi Kimberly, I am sorry to hear that you don't have the Manage Captions option. Can you send me a screenshot of what you are seeing? Also, what browser are you using?
