Captions and Transcripts
Create, translate, upload, and edit caption tracks for Ours Privacy videos, then let viewers choose their language in the player.
Use this page to review, correct, or replace the captions on a video.
Automatic captions
When you upload a video, choose its source language. The audio is transcribed into that language and saved as a caption file in the standard VTT format. The player picks the file up automatically, so captions are available to viewers without any further setup.
A caption file is a list of cues. Each cue is one line of on-screen text plus the moment it appears and the moment it goes away.
- Review automatic captions. Automatic transcription can still misrender clinical terms and proper nouns. Add terms to your caption vocabulary and review the source track before publishing.
- Videos over 2 GB skip transcription. Upload your own caption file for those, using the steps below.
The Captions section on the video detail page shows which state a video is in: Auto-generated, Uploaded (a person supplied or edited the file), or None.
Correct captions in the dashboard
The caption editor lets you fix wording and timing one cue at a time, against the video as it plays.
- Open the video and find the Captions section.
- Choose Edit captions.
- Play the video. The active cue is highlighted and shown over the player as it plays.
- Edit any cue's text directly in its row.
- Adjust timing by typing a timestamp, or by moving the playhead to the right moment and choosing Set start or Set end.
- Add missing lines with Add cue, and remove stray ones with the row's delete control.
- Choose Save captions.
Saved captions replace the selected track the player serves. The editor blocks saving while a cue has an invalid time range, so fix any flagged rows first.
To get consistently better first-pass results on terms specific to your organization, add them to your caption vocabulary before uploading.
Add another language
Use the Captions section to add another language:
- Choose Translate captions and select a target language, or choose Upload track to provide a VTT or SRT file you already have.
- Wait for the track to show Ready.
- Choose a language from the track list to edit or download its captions.
The player lists every ready track in its captions menu. It uses the viewer's browser language when a matching track exists, otherwise it uses the source track.
Upload your own caption file
If you caption elsewhere, upload the finished file for the source language or another language:
- Open the video and find the Captions section.
- Choose Upload your own (or Replace if the video already has uploaded captions).
- Pick a VTT or SRT file. SRT files are converted to VTT during upload.
Uploading replaces the selected language track. It does not change the other tracks.
Download the caption file
Choose the download control in the Captions section to save the current VTT file. This is useful for editing in a dedicated captioning tool, having captions reviewed, or reusing the transcript elsewhere on the page.
Captions and accessibility
Captions are one of the clearest accessibility wins on a video.
- Review automatic captions before publishing anything where accuracy matters.
- Viewers control caption appearance themselves through the player's caption settings, so you do not need to style them.
- Captions only help if the viewer can reach them, which means leaving the player controls visible. See Player accessibility.
Next steps
- Caption vocabulary: teach automatic captions the terms your organization uses.
- Player accessibility: how captions render and what else the player supports.
- Updating a video: replace assets and clear caches after a change.
- Building your own player: use the caption file URL in a player of your own.
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