{"id":101,"date":"2016-11-11T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/?p=101"},"modified":"2016-11-11T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:07:48","slug":"subtitles-and-captions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/2016\/11\/11\/subtitles-and-captions\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtitles and captions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever we make a video for our free online courses we also make a transcript and add subtitles.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sensible for us to make sure these digital assets can be used by <strong>all<\/strong> our learners, and it is also mandated as a course requirement by FutureLearn.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, along with this stipulation is <strong>capability<\/strong>. \u00a0We have, via FutureLearn, an account with the transcription services of 3playmedia.com to take the pain out transcription. \u00a0Here&#8217;s how it works:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oyNsUVT3fQs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really interesting is that when these transcripts and subtitles are in place it&#8217;s clearly not only learners with hearing difficulties that make use of them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some learners prefer to read the transcript instead of listening along. Maybe it&#8217;s because they can skim the contents and find the pertinent points.<\/li>\n<li>Non-native speakers find these transcripts helpful<\/li>\n<li>People\u00a0who can&#8217;t listen to videos on their desktop computers or have forgotten their earbuds<\/li>\n<li>We find them useful to remind ourselves of the content of the videos, and work out if we can reuse portions later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Certainly, we have found if they aren&#8217;t there, or we&#8217;ve uploaded the wrong transcript, learners are quick to point it out.<\/p>\n<p>Transcripts do take time to produce, but, the time and cost is only a fraction of the\u00a0overall production costs of the video.<\/p>\n<p>IMHO if it is worth spending time and money on making an professional video it is daft not to take a bit more time to add a transcript &#8211; especially if the video will be watched by a good number of people.<\/p>\n<p>But to make it <strong>normal<\/strong> for those commissioning videos to take the extra trouble we need to make it easy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>provide access to easy to use services such as 3playmedia (other services are available).<\/li>\n<li>provide an initial seed funding to cover the modest costs of producing transcripts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever we make a video for our free online courses we also make a transcript and add subtitles. It&#8217;s sensible for us to make sure these digital assets can be used by all our learners, and it is also mandated as a course requirement by FutureLearn. Thankfully, along with this stipulation is capability. \u00a0We have, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/2016\/11\/11\/subtitles-and-captions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Subtitles and captions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurelearning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nualadavis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}