Add Captions To Audio
Make Your Audio Accessible with Captions
Enhance Your Video Accessibility By Adding Captions To Your Audio
Adding captions to audio is a good way to make audio content more accessible to a wider audience. Captions provide a transcript of the audio, which can be helpful for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as for people who are in noisy environments or who have difficulty understanding spoken content. Captions can also be useful for people who are learning a new language, or who prefer to read along while they listen to audio.For example, captions can make audio content more engaging and easier to follow, which can improve the user experience for all listeners. Captions can also help increase the reach and visibility of audio content, as search engines can index and display the text of captions in search results.
How to Add Captions to Your Audio?
Select File
Select the file to which you wish to add captions. Choose from your files or simply attach a link.
Auto Add Captions, Manually Edit
You may either manually input your captions in the "Auto Transcribe" box or upload a file of captions by selecting " Captions" from the sidebar menu (eg. SRT)
Download and Share
Text, font, color, size, and timing should all be adjusted. then simply press the "Download" button.
Benefits of Adding Captions to Audio
Widen Your Reach And Engagement
By adding captions to your audio, you make your content more accessible to a wider audience. Mute is used to watch 85% of all Facebook videos. On Snapchat, one out of every three videos is watched without sound. People are increasingly opting to watch videos without sound. Solution? Captions! By including captions in your videos, you can reach thousands more viewers, including those who are deaf or hard of hearing. Captions provide a written representation of the audio content that can be accessed in real-time. Hard coded subtitles are ones that your viewer cannot disable. While the video is playing, they are constantly audible. You have the option to turn on or off closed captions. In contrast to hard coded subtitles, they are (sometimes known as Open Captions).
Intuitive Navigation
Adding captions to audio can enhance the user experience for all listeners by making audio content more engaging and easier to follow. Some ways in which captions can improve the user experience include: (i) Providing context: Captions can provide context for unfamiliar words or phrases, which can make it easier for listeners to understand and follow the audio content. (ii) Clarifying spoken content: Captions can help clarify spoken content, which can be particularly helpful for listeners who have difficulty understanding spoken content or are in noisy environments. (iii) Allowing multitasking: Captions can allow listeners to multitask while consuming audio content, such as by allowing them to read along while they listen.
Improved Search Visibility
Captions provide a written transcript of the audio or video content, which can be indexed and displayed in search results. This can make it easier for people to discover and access the content, and can help increase its overall visibility. Captions can make audio and video content more shareable on social media platforms, as they can be understood by a wider audience. This can help increase the visibility of the content and potentially lead to more views and engagement. Captions are an excellent way to draw your audience's attention, highlight specific words or phrases, and direct your viewers' attention to the most important messages. Creating multimedia content entails more than just images and sounds. With Wavel, creating engaging content has never been easier Auto playing videos on silent is now a common practice on social media platforms. 85% of Facebook videos, according to Digiday, are played without sound. Viewers will not be able to understand your content if there is no sound or captions.
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“My company creates videos that need a lot of captioning done, and luckily enough I discovered Wavel at just the perfect time. Their platform is very user-friendly, their turnaround time is quick and their transcripts and captions are very accurate. The fact that I can download files in a multitude of formats is a huge bonus as well. And their pricing is the best I've found. Would definitely recommend for any transcript or captioning needs! Keep up the great work!”
Harrison Kunz
Post Production Supervisor, Creator Cup
“We are very happy with Wavel and the quality of subtitles they can produce for us. Their turnaround time is great and the platform is easy to use. We will highly recommend Wavel and its services.”
Sushant Das
CEO, Eduonix
“The Great Courses produces well over 500 hours of video content a year. Wavel has done a wonderful job accommodating our closed captioning needs. The best part about working with Wavel is their desire to continually improve our experience through one on one communication, and by implementing technological updates to their platform to better suit our specific needs.”
Farhad Hossain
Director, Editorial and Design
“Creating the course content and videos for courses on Data Science and Machine Learning. The scripts generated were pretty accurate. We have a wide range of topics and multiple instructors who record the video content. The accuracy in subtitles was seen across the videos that were submitted. Additionally the team responds actively to any queries and questions that I have.”
Aishwarya Singh
Data Scientist, Analytics Vidhya
