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AI Workbench: Transcriptions
Updated over a week ago

Here you can transcribe and translate your videos.

The end users will see transcriptions and translations in the Player as closed captions tracks, and/or in the Transcript tab.

Transcription is a result of a speech-to-text AI processing and is only performed in the original language of the video. Usually your videos will be transcribed automatically during initial processing. If for any reason this processing was not performed, or the initial transcription was later deleted, you will be able to generate a transcription with AI in this part of the Workbench.

A transcription can then be translated into a wide variety of languages.

Translating a video will only translate the text assets for this video like closed captions and transcript (where available). The audio track and other contents of the video will remain unchanged.

A video can only have one transcription or translation in one language. So if a transcription or a translation in a language that you want to add already exists, it should be deleted before proceeding. You will be asked to confirm this action or to perform it manually depending on the flow.

There are the following control elements available in the Transcriptions screen:

[Translation by AI] will translate the transcript for this video into a language of your choice.


โ€‹Languages dropdown: provides all existing transcripts and translations for this video. Select one to view.

Download action. Download a closed captions file or a transcript file. Closed captions file will have timestamps for every closed captions line.

Delete action. Delete the transcript and/or the closed captions in the currently selected language.

Upload Translation action. Upload a closed captions (*.vtt) file in any language. It will become available in the Languages dropdown once uploaded. These closed captions will be available to your viewers in the Player.

Search box. Enter your search request and move between all instances where this item was found.

Autoscroll toggle. Control whether the transcript to the right is scrolled in sync with video played in the player to the left.

The changes that you make in the Transcriptions part of the Workbench, like adding or removing a transcription or translation, are published automatically and affect the users the next time they load the video.

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