Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome to my channel. In this video, you will learn why and how to add closed caption in your article storyline or e-learning courses. Before diving deep into the process of adding closed captions, you need to understand why you should add the closed caption in your e-learning courses. The reason is to improve accessibility and usefulness of your beautifully designed courses. Now, let's understand what I mean by accessibility. One of the articles by WHO titled Deafness and Hearing Loss describes by 2050 nearly 2.5 billion people are projected to have some degree of hearing loss and at least 700 million will require hearing rehabilitation. And to cater to this massive set of users, adding closed caption is essential to tackle this problem and serve your current and future users with special need in a much better way. And in the recent update of article storyline 360, which was on July 27th, 2021, you can now increase the size of closed caption by 200%. Now that you know why you need to add closed captions in your courses, let's dive deep into the process of adding closed captions. I have divided this video into three sections. Add closed captions while creating text-to-speech audio. Add closed caption in audio, for example, you have an audio and transcript of that audio and you want to add and sync the caption. And in third example, say you have an SRT file of the audio with the correct timestamp and how you will add it as a caption. You will find the timestamp for each method in the video chapters and in the video description. Let's start with the first method, adding closed caption while creating the audio using text-to-speech feature of article storyline 360. Navigate to insert tab and click on audio on the slide where you want to add closed caption using the text-to-speech feature. Now from the drop-down, select text-to-speech option. Select the language you want your audio to be from the first drop-down. For example, I will select English India and the moment you choose the language from the first drop-down, the actor or narrator options in the second drop-down gets updated. For the English India language option, you have two narrators, Aditi and Raveena. You can preview and listen to narrator's voice using the preview voice option. After that, copy and paste the text you want to convert your audio into the text area. Now make sure to select the checkbox generate closed caption. Selecting this option will create accurately synced closed caption for your audio. And finally, click on insert button. Storyline will take couple of seconds or minute based on the content length to create the audio with the closed captions. Make sure you have active internet connection while using this feature. Now I will make some minor changes to the project to align the content with the audio. Now let's look at the project in action. The closed caption and audio are in sync. If you have learned something new, please like the video. It helps channel in YouTube content discovery. Now let's move on to the second method, adding closed caption in an audio. We will use the same project, but the only change is that the caption we added earlier is removed and we will do it manually this time. To add the closed captions, click on audio. And to do that, first expand the timeline and select the audio. As soon as you click on the desired audio, a new tab will appear named options. And here you will see many options to modify and work with audio. However, for this demo, I will select add caption option. It will open a closed caption editor window. Here you will add transcript or closed captions. The storyline will add some empty caption boxes in the caption area. However, you have to align and add more caption boxes for the entire audio. As you can see, at the end of the audio, the caption boxes are missing. Carefully listen to the audio and add the closed captions using the insert caption option. Make sure to add an adequate amount of transcript so that it won't take much space on the slide. As you know, if you have to increase the size of your closed captions, later due to some changes, you might have to rework on the slide. Our transcript is added in the caption boxes and next, we need to save the changes by clicking on the save and close button. Let's preview the project and see how it looks in action. As expected, the project is working fine and closed captions are appearing correctly. Let's move on to our final method, adding closed captions from an SRT file. If you want to learn how to create an SRT file, do let me know in the comment section below. First, let's add the audio and to do that, click on insert tab and select audio. From the drop down, select the first option audio from file. Navigate to where you have saved the audio file and select it. You can double click to import the audio. Now select the audio from the timeline and click on the options tab. Here, select the import option and import the SRT file. Now let's preview the project. As you can see, the audio and transcript are in sync. These are the three main methods you can use to add closed captions or transcript in your Articulate Storyline projects. If you know other methods to add closed captions or a better way to do this, please leave a comment in the comment section below. If you found this video helpful, then do like and share it. This helps my channel in YouTube content discovery. If you want to learn more about Storyline, check out the Articulate Storyline playlist in the playlist section. I have also given a link in the description below. For more such videos, consider subscribing to my channel. Until then, I'll see you in the next video.