New in Storyline 360: Video Transcripts

Hello Christa,

Thanks for reaching out! 

Storyline 360 currently doesn't support the automatic generation of closed caption text from media, but I added your voice to the feature request that we already have open for this enhancement.

We'll be sure to leave a message here if we have any updates to share! 

Multiple languages?

So we still need to type all of the text into the closed captions, correct? When I select "add captions" to an mp4 file in Storyline, this is what I get (see attached screen shot).

I then need to listen to the whole video and type in the captions. There isn't any way to have Storyline use audio to text to generate what it thinks is being said, is there? That way, we'd just need to edit rather than type everything. 

Hello, I'd like to report an issue with the new Transcript button on the video controls. It is read by JAWS as "open toggle button" which isn't as descriptive as it should be. Perhaps "Open Transcript toggle button" would work, but as it is right now it is unclear what it does to screen reader learners. 

Ronnie,

Thanks for the quick get-back. Man, you folks are good. I figured out the problem: The audio for my video clip was a separate audio recording I added in post (there is no audio on the video itself). So although I was able to create captioning from the audio track that appeared over the video, Storyline was not able to associate the captioning on the audio track with the video.

In short, the captioning that drives the transcript must be of the audio in the video itself, not on an audio track that is separate from the video.

I left feedback in this dedicated post before I saw this, so this is a repeat of that.

There are two things missing that I would want to see before this is useful to us:

1. The transcript needs to be clickable. It's a great navigational tool for learners wanting to navigate around the video. People are used to this from places such as EDx and Microsoft Stream so having a non-interactive transcript might confuse some learners.
2. There needs to be a variable that we can access easily via triggers, as with closed captions. At the moment the button to turn on a transcript is very small, only appears when you hover over the video and there is no alt-text to explain what it does. I don't think many people will find it, and a good UI shouldn't need its own instruction.

I hope that Articulate can address these points because this has the potential to make video content much more useful to students who require assistive technologies and those without.

I love this feature! Thank you so much!

Hi team,

This feature is great!

However, our project has 20 SCORM packages in same series.

we already did 10s package from previous Storyline version.
Since the new update, the new version will contain this feature. It becomes inconsistency within the series.

Is there anyway to turn "Transcript button" off out of the video player?

Hi Chai,

Great question! I understand you would like to remove the transcript option from the player so your project is consistent. I’m happy to get some information for you about that!

You can go about this in one of two ways. You can reinstall the previous version (Build 3.73.30119.0) and publish the ten remaining courses or you can republish the ten courses in that latest version of Storyline 360 to take advantage of the new video transcript feature.

Here are the steps to reinstall an older version of Storyline 360.

1.  Open the Articulate 360 app.

2.  Click on the arrow next to Storyline 360.

3.  Click Other Versions.

4.  Click Install next to the version you would like to install.

Thanks for reaching out!

Great idea, but I can't get it to work. The documentation states "turn on accessible video controls" (attached). But I can't find anything specifically labeled "accessible video controls," in either the player (attached) or video options (attached).

Please help me understand what I am missing or not understanding.