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The audio-to-text world can be a confusing place. Should you be captioning your content or providing viewers with a transcript? Even when you decide on what will work best with your content, how should you go about creating the text? What even is the difference between captioning and transcription in the first place?
In this article, we’ll explain the difference between captioning and transcription, how to create captions and transcripts for your content, the benefits of audio-to-text for different industries, and which software to use.
Transcription is the process of converting voice or audio into a written, plain text document. The transcript will not have any time information linked to it because it is the plain-text result of transcription.
Captioning is the act of splitting transcript text into chunks (known as “caption frames”) and time-coding each frame to synchronize with video audio. Output is often displayed at the bottom of a video screen and should always portray speech and sound effects, identify speakers, and account for any sound that is not visible. The transcript is used to make the caption.
Transcription, also known as transcribing, is the process of transforming audio-to-text. When you have recorded content, whether it be audio or video, a transcript is essentially the audio written out in text format, including, who said what and at what time. Transcripts are useful for a variety of content like podcasts or research interviews.
There are two types of transcripts:
Verbatim: the text includes filler words such as uhh’s and erms, false starts, etc.
Clean read: the text has been edited slightly for readability, so it does not contain filler words or distractions.
Captions are the text version of the audio of a video, but they are shown on the video. Captions can be in the same language as the audio or they can be translated into other languages to help those who are not native speakers, understand the content.
Types of captions
Closed captions: These captions are in a separate file from the video and can be turned on or off by the viewer.
Open captions: Open captions are burned into the video and the viewer has no control over whether to turn them off.
Creating transcripts and captions by yourself can be a time-consuming and boring process. For every minute of audio, it can take over 8 minutes to fully transcribe!
That’s why there are professional captioning and transcription services out there that can help!
At Amberscript, we’re on a mission to make all audio accessible by making the process of transcribing and captioning content a lot easier to do. We use state-of-the-art Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) software to create high-quality audio-to-text, fast!
