How to Create English (Scottish) Captions

Creating captions for audio and video content can help further engage and capture the interest of viewers. In countries across the world where English (Scottish) is spoken, adding captions in the language can be a great way to reach a larger audience.

English (Scottish) Language Statistics

English (Scottish) is used in many countries around the world. In the UK, it is the official language of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. As of 2020, an estimated 1.75 billion people around the world were estimated to speak English (Scottish) as a first or second language.

Benefits of Transcription and Captions

The benefits of transcription and creating captions in the English (Scottish) language are numerous. Captions can help increase engagement with content, as viewers can more easily follow along with audio and video. Captions can also help those with hearing impairments access content more easily. Additionally, captions can help improve search engine optimization (SEO), since search engines can better index the content of audio and video with captions.

What are Captions?

Captions are text that is synchronized with audio and video content. They provide a textual representation of the dialogue and sound effects in the content. Captions are different from subtitles, which provide translations of the dialogue and sound effects.

Creating English (Scottish) Captions with Speak AI

Speak AI is an automated speech recognition and natural language processing platform with over 50,000 users. It makes creating captions in English (Scottish) easy and efficient. Speak AI’s automated speech recognition technology can quickly transcribe audio and video content into captions. Its natural language processing technology can then be used to further refine the accuracy of the captions.

Use Cases and Benefits of Speak AI

Speak AI can be used by researchers, marketers, businesses, and more for creating captions in English (Scottish). Researchers can use Speak AI to quickly create captions for audio and video content for transcription and research purposes. Marketers can use Speak AI to create captions for videos to improve SEO, reach a larger audience, and engage viewers more easily. Businesses can use Speak AI to create captions for training videos and other content to make it more accessible to a larger audience.

Conclusion

Creating captions in the English (Scottish) language can help reach a larger audience and further engage viewers. Speak AI is an automated speech recognition and natural language processing platform that makes creating captions in English (Scottish) quick and easy. Researchers, marketers, and businesses can all benefit from using Speak AI to create captions in the language.

Step 1: Create a Speak Account

To start your English (Scottish) captioning, you first need to create a Speak account. No worries, this is super easy to do!

Our team is happy to give you a 7-day trial with 30 minutes of free English (Scottish) audio and video captioning included.

To sign up for Speak and start your English (Scottish) captioning, visit the Speak app register page here.

Step 2: Upload your English (Scottish) file(s) for Captioning

We typically recommend MP4s for video or MP3s for audio.

However, we accept a range of audio and video file types. Once you upload your file all you have to do is select “English (Scottish)” from the language dropdown menu to automatically caption in English (Scottish).

You can upload your English (Scottish) file for captioning in several ways using Speak:

Accepted English (Scottish) Audio File Types

English (Scottish) MP3
English (Scottish) M4A
English (Scottish) WAV
English (Scottish) OGG
English (Scottish) WEBM
English (Scottish) M4P

Accepted English (Scottish) Video File Types

English (Scottish) MP4
English (Scottish) M4V
English (Scottish) WMV
English (Scottish) AVI
English (Scottish) MOV
English (Scottish) FLV

Publicly Available English (Scottish) URLs

You can also upload media to Speak through a publicly available URL.

As long as the file type extension is available at the end of the URL you will have no problem importing your recording for automatic English (Scottish) captioning and analysis.

English (Scottish) YouTube URLs

Speak is compatible with YouTube videos. All you have to do is copy the URL of the YouTube video (for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKfcLcHeivc).

Speak will automatically find the file, calculate the length, and import the video.

Please make sure you use the full link and not the shortened YouTube snippet. Additionally, make sure you remove the channel name from the URL.

Speak Integrations

As mentioned, Speak also contains a range of integrations for Zoom, Zapier, Vimeo and more that will help you automatically caption your media.

This library of integrations continues to grow! Have a request? Feel encouraged to send us a message.

Step 3: Calculate and pay the total automatically

Once you have your English (Scottish) audio or video file ready and load it into Speak, it will automatically calculate the total cost (you get 30 minutes free in the trial – take advantage of it!).

You can pay by subscribing to a personalized plan using our real-time calculator with included minutes.

You can also add a balance or pay for uploads without a plan using your credit card.

Step 4: Wait for Speak to caption your English (Scottish) audio or English (Scottish) video

Our automated captioning software will prepare your English (Scottish) captions in as little as a few minutes. Generally, Speak takes about half the audio or video length to produce the captions and insights.

Once completed, you will get an email notification that your English (Scottish) captions is complete. That email will contain a link back to the file so you can access the interactive media player with the English (Scottish) captions, analysis, and export formats ready for you.

Step 5: View and edit your automated English (Scottish) captions

Want to tackle the captions edits yourself? All good! Once you receive your automated captions you have the option to edit your captions at any time.

Easily update speaker names, find and replace, and get your automatic English (Scottish) captions up to full accuracy with our intuitive captions editing system.

Step 6: Export your English (Scottish) captions and share interactive media players

With Speak, you can easily export English (Scottish) captions to many formats.

Below is a list of options for exporting your English (Scottish) captions in Speak:

Export English (Scottish) captions to SRTs
Export English (Scottish) captions to VTTs

A more effective way of sharing captions is through a shareable media library that includes the media file, AI insights and interactive captions.

There is so much more that you can do with Speak to enrich the value of your media and captions.

Never hesitate to send us a message on live chat – we are always here to help!

We talked about English (Scottish) captioning here, but you may be interested in how to caption in other languages instantly and easily with Speak’s intuitive captioning and natural language processing software.

We’ve shared resources below on all the languages Speak can help you caption!

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How Much Does It Cost To Caption English (Scottish)?

Speak offers highly competitive pricing for English (Scottish) captioning compared to other captioning solutions. For a starting user, Speak offers automated English (Scottish) captioning for only $0.025 USD per minute. That is only $1.50 USD per hour!

We also scale our pricing based on media volume and can offer even bigger discounts to large customers.

So, if you have over 100 hours of English (Scottish) captioning per month please contact us through live chat and we will set you up with a customized price per minute to make English (Scottish) captioning even more affordable!

You can learn more about how to caption English (Scottish) with Speak and the relevant pricing on the website pricing page and the in-app pricing page.

What Can You Caption In English (Scottish)?

Caption English (Scottish) interviews
Caption English (Scottish) videos
Caption English (Scottish) audio
Caption English (Scottish) earnings calls
Caption English (Scottish) focus groups
Caption English (Scottish) meetings
Caption English (Scottish) phone calls
Caption English (Scottish) YouTube videos
Caption English (Scottish) Vimeo videos
Caption English (Scottish) Zoom recordings
Caption English (Scottish) Google Meet recordings
Caption Microsoft Teams recordings
Caption English (Scottish) podcasts

And so much more!

What Other Languages Can Speak Caption?

Speak already has users from over 90 countries and we continuously get requests to caption and analyze in different languages.

So, we continuously add more languages to Speak! Here are just some of the growing list of languages that Speak offers:

There are now many more added!

You can see the entire list of languages Speak supports through both the software and APIs.

How To Create English (Scottish) Captions

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