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Automatically Generating Captions from Clips
Automatically Generating Captions from Clips

How to automatically transcribe your videos

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Written by Derk Zomer
Updated over 3 months ago

You can generate captions automatically by referencing the audio clips used in your edit within your caption asset. Shotstack will detect the language of the audio and transcribe it accordingly.

Shotstack will automatically try to detect the language used.

Audio, video, and text-to-speech clips can all be auto-transcribed.

How to Reference Clips for Transcriptionโ€‹

First add a clip holding the audio you wish to have transcribed:

Assign an alias in the properties panel of this clip:

Add an automated caption clip:

Reference the alias of that clip:

Once the alias is referenced, Shotstack will generate captions for the audio in that clip.

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