How to Create and Upload Caption Files Using Otter.ai for YouTube and Amara
Learn to create caption files with Otter.ai, and upload them to YouTube and Amara. Follow step-by-step instructions for seamless video captioning.
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Captioning with Otter AI, YouTube, and Amara
Added on 09/08/2024
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Speaker 1: Hi there, my name is Sean Jordison and in this video we are going to use Otter.ai to create a caption file and then take that caption file and either upload it into YouTube or to Amara. The first step is to sign into our account at otter.ai. From here we are going to select the import button. There are two ways that you can add files to this window. We can select the browse files button or we can drag and drop our file into the box. Once we have uploaded our file, select done. The conversation is now processing. Once the file is complete we can open it to begin editing. I'm going to give this a better name. And what it did, the video that I entered was only 15 seconds and so it applied a speaker to my file which we can edit if we want or we can also edit the text. So I'm going to select edit and from here we can change the speaker type to someone else or me. And then we can also make sure that the text in this window is appropriate. So this is where you are going to do all of your editing for your caption file. And once we make all of our changes, we select done. Now we have a file that is ready to be exported. I'm going to select the menu item up here, select export text, and we have our export options. I'm going to select SRT, allow line breaks, the number of lines, and we are going to set our characters per line to 32. If you don't have the export option, it's because your account needs to be upgraded to a paid account. Once we set our options, we are going to select continue. The file was downloaded to my computer as an SRT file and we can see that our time codes are set appropriately and our captions are in here. This section will cover how to upload a transcript file to a YouTube video. The first thing to do is to sign into your YouTube account, select your videos, find the video that you want to add a transcript for or a subtitle track. Once you select the video, we can select subtitles and by default it enters the English language. I'm going to select add and from here we have an area to upload a file. We are going to choose with timing, select continue. We want to find our caption file, select it. Once we verify that the information is correct, we can select publish and we now have captions on our video. If you wanted to add captions in another language, you can select add language, find the language you want to upload and select it. Then select add and follow the same steps to upload a file. This section of the video is going to cover how to upload your transcript file or your subtitle file to Amara.org. The first step is to sign into Amara.org, then select start subtitling, select begin. Now this page changes frequently. At the time of this video, this is what we're going to do. We're going to select the add videos button. This is where we paste the link for the YouTube video that we want to upload a transcript file for and we select the language that is spoken in the video. So I pasted my video URL, I selected English and I'm going to add to Amara Public. We can see my video in here. Now I'm going to select add, edit subtitles and we kind of have to walk through the process again. So I'm going to select English and then select add. This is the Amara editing window. To upload our subtitle file, we're going to select the little wrench icon here called subtitle tools and we have an option for upload subtitles. I'm going to choose the file and select upload. Because we used Otter.ai to set the text, there is no need to do any of the timing sync because the caption file came through with timing. Once we verify that our captions are correct, we're going to select the publish button and now our video is captioned within Amara.

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