How To Create English (United States) Captions
English (United States) is the primary language in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. It is also spoken in many other countries around the world. According to the 2020 census, English (United States) is the most commonly spoken language in the United States, with over 250 million people speaking the language.
Creating captions for audio and video in the English (United States) language is an important part of making content accessible to all. Captions allow viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing to understand and engage with your content. They also make your content more searchable and can even boost your SEO rankings.
What Are Captions?
Captions are text that appears on the screen while a video or audio is playing. They usually follow the dialogue and other audio cues, allowing viewers to understand the content. Captions are different than subtitles, which are usually used to translate content into another language.
Benefits of Transcription and Creating Captions
There are many benefits to transcribing audio and video content and creating captions in the English (United States) language. First and foremost, it makes your content accessible to a much larger audience. People who are deaf or hard of hearing can understand your content without needing to turn on subtitles.
Creating captions also improves the discoverability of your content. People are more likely to watch a video if they can read the captions, and search engines are more likely to rank your content if it contains captions. Captions also make it easy to share your content across various platforms, as many platforms require captions for videos.
Using Speak AI to Create English (United States) Captions
Speak AI is an automated speech recognition and natural language platform that makes it easy to transcribe audio and video content and create captions in the English (United States) language. With over 50,000 users, Speak AI offers a fast, accurate, and cost-effective way to create captions for all types of content.
Speak AI’s automated speech recognition technology can quickly and accurately transcribe audio and video content in the English (United States) language. The platform then converts the transcript into captions, ensuring accuracy and consistency. Once the captions are generated, users can easily edit and format them to their liking.
Conclusion
Creating captions in the English (United States) language is an important part of making content accessible to all audiences. With Speak AI, creating captions is fast, accurate, and cost-effective. Researchers, marketers, and businesses can use Speak AI’s automated speech recognition technology to quickly and accurately transcribe audio and video content and create captions in the English (United States) language.
Step 1: Create a Speak Account
To start your English (United States) 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 (United States) audio and video captioning included.
To sign up for Speak and start your English (United States) captioning, visit the Speak app register page here.
Step 2: Upload your English (United States) 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 (United States)” from the language dropdown menu to automatically caption in English (United States).
You can upload your English (United States) file for captioning in several ways using Speak:
Accepted English (United States) Audio File Types
- English (United States) MP3
- English (United States) M4A
- English (United States) WAV
- English (United States) OGG
- English (United States) WEBM
- English (United States) M4P
Accepted English (United States) Video File Types
- English (United States) MP4
- English (United States) M4V
- English (United States) WMV
- English (United States) AVI
- English (United States) MOV
- English (United States) FLV
Publicly Available English (United States) 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 (United States) captioning and analysis.
English (United States) 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 (United States) 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 (United States) audio or English (United States) video
Our automated captioning software will prepare your English (United States) 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 (United States) captions is complete. That email will contain a link back to the file so you can access the interactive media player with the English (United States) captions, analysis, and export formats ready for you.
Step 5: View and edit your automated English (United States) 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 (United States) captions up to full accuracy with our intuitive captions editing system.
Step 6: Export your English (United States) captions and share interactive media players
With Speak, you can easily export English (United States) captions to many formats.
Below is a list of options for exporting your English (United States) captions in Speak:
- Export English (United States) captions to SRTs
- Export English (United States) 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 (United States) 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 (United States)?
Speak offers highly competitive pricing for English (United States) captioning compared to other captioning solutions. For a starting user, Speak offers automated English (United States) captioning for only $0.06 USD per minute. That is only $3.6 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 (United States) captioning per month please contact us through live chat and we will set you up with a customized price per minute to make English (United States) captioning even more affordable!
You can learn more about how to caption English (United States) with Speak and the relevant pricing on the website pricing page and the in-app pricing page.
What Can You Caption In English (United States)?
- Caption English (United States) interviews
- Caption English (United States) videos
- Caption English (United States) audio
- Caption English (United States) earnings calls
- Caption English (United States) focus groups
- Caption English (United States) meetings
- Caption English (United States) phone calls
- Caption English (United States) YouTube videos
- Caption English (United States) Vimeo videos
- Caption English (United States) Zoom recordings
- Caption English (United States) Google Meet recordings
- Caption Microsoft Teams recordings
- Caption English (United States) 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:
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- How To Create Arabic (Iraq) Captions
- How To Create Arabic (Israel) Captions
- How To Create Arabic (Jordan) Captions
- How To Create Arabic (Kuwait) Captions
- How To Create Arabic (Lebanon) Captions
- How To Create Arabic (Oman) Captions
- How To Create Arabic (Palestinian Authority) Captions
- How To Create Arabic (Qatar) Captions
- How To Create Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Captions
- How To Create Arabic (Syrian Arab Republic) Captions
- How To Create Arabic (United Arab Emirates) Captions
- How To Create Arabic Modern Standard (Bahrain) Captions
- How To Create Armenian Captions
- How To Create Bulgarian Captions
- How To Create Catalan Captions
- How To Create Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional) Captions
- How To Create Chinese (Simplified) Captions
- How To Create Chinese (Traditional) Captions
- How To Create Croatian Captions
- How To Create Czech Captions
- How To Create Danish Captions
- How To Create Dutch Captions
- How To Create English Captions
- How To Create English (Australia) Captions
- How To Create English (Indian) Captions
- How To Create English (Irish) Captions
- How To Create English (New Zealand) Captions
- How To Create English (Scottish) Captions
- How To Create English (South African) Captions
- How To Create English (United Kingdom) Captions
- How To Create English (United States) Captions
- How To Create Estonian Captions
- How To Create Farsi Captions
- How To Create Finnish Captions
- How To Create French Captions
- How To Create French (Canada) Captions
- How To Create German Captions
- How To Create German (Swiss) Captions
- How To Create Greek Captions
- How To Create Gujarati Captions
- How To Create Hebrew Captions
- How To Create Hindi Captions
- How To Create Hungarian Captions
- How To Create Icelandic Captions
- How To Create Indonesian Captions
- How To Create Irish Captions
- How To Create Italian Captions
- How To Create Japanese Captions
- How To Create Kannada Captions
- How To Create Korean Captions
- How To Create Latvian Captions
- How To Create Lithuanian Captions
- How To Create Malay Captions
- How To Create Malayalam Captions
- How To Create Norwegian Captions
- How To Create Persian Captions
- How To Create Polish Captions
- How To Create Portuguese Captions
- How To Create Portuguese (Brazilian) Captions
- How To Create Portuguese (Portugal) Captions
- How To Create Romanian Captions
- How To Create Russian Captions
- How To Create Slovak Captions
- How To Create Slovenian Captions
- How To Create Spanish Captions
- How To Create Spanish (Mexico) Captions
- How To Create Swedish Captions
- How To Create Tamil Captions
- How To Create Telugu Captions
- How To Create Thai Captions
- How To Create Turkish Captions
- How To Create Ukrainian Captions
- How To Create Vietnamese Captions
There are now many more added!
You can see the entire list of languages Speak supports through both the software and APIs.