How To Create Korean Captions For Audio and Video

Creating captions and subtitles for audio and video content in the Korean language can be a challenging task. But with the right process and tools, this task can be made much easier. With the rise of the internet, audio and video content has become a hugely popular form of communication. Adding captions and subtitles to these audio and video files can help open up your content to a wider audience, including those who are hard of hearing or have difficulty understanding the language.

What Are Captions?

Captions are the written representation of speech and other audio information in multimedia content. The purpose of captions is to make audio and video content accessible to people who are hearing impaired, or who may be struggling to understand the language. Captions are different from subtitles, which are typically used to translate the audio content into a different language.

Where is Korean Used?

Korean is an official language in South Korea and North Korea, as well as in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in China. Korean is also spoken by the Korean diaspora, namely South and North Korean emigrants, and their descendants, who live in a variety of countries, including the United States, Japan, China, and Russia. According to the Ethnologue, there are an estimated 77 million Korean speakers worldwide.

The Benefits of Transcription and Captions

Adding captions to audio and video content has many benefits. Captions make your content accessible to a wider audience, including those who are hard of hearing or have difficulty understanding the language. Captions can also help boost engagement with your content, as viewers are more likely to watch videos with captions than without. Captions can also improve SEO, as captions are indexed by search engines and can help make your content more visible.

Speak AI: Transcribing and Captioning Platform

Speak AI is a speech recognition and natural language processing platform that allows users to easily transcribe and caption audio and video content in over 50 languages, including Korean. Speak AI’s automated transcription and captioning service is fast, accurate, and affordable. The platform’s powerful AI-powered speech recognition technology makes it easy to quickly and accurately transcribe and caption audio and video content.

Use Cases and Benefits of Speak AI

Speak AI’s automated transcription and captioning service can be used by researchers, marketers, and businesses to transcribe and caption audio and video content in Korean. Speak AI’s transcription and captioning service can be used to quickly and accurately transcribe interviews, presentations, webinars, and more. Speak AI’s automated captioning service can be used to quickly and accurately caption video content in Korean, making it more accessible to a wider audience.

Conclusion

Creating captions and subtitles for audio and video content in the Korean language can be a challenging task. But with the right process and tools, this task can be made much easier. Speak AI’s automated transcription and captioning service is fast, accurate, and affordable and can be used by researchers, marketers, and businesses to quickly and accurately transcribe and caption audio and video content in Korean. Speak AI’s automated captioning service can be used to quickly and accurately caption video content in Korean, making it more accessible to a wider audience.

Step 1: Create a Speak Account

To start your Korean 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 Korean audio and video captioning included.

To sign up for Speak and start your Korean captioning, visit the Speak app register page here.

Step 2: Upload your Korean 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 “Korean” from the language dropdown menu to automatically caption in Korean.

You can upload your Korean file for captioning in several ways using Speak:

Accepted Korean Audio File Types

Korean MP3
Korean M4A
Korean WAV
Korean OGG
Korean WEBM
Korean M4P

Accepted Korean Video File Types

Korean MP4
Korean M4V
Korean WMV
Korean AVI
Korean MOV
Korean FLV

Publicly Available Korean 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 Korean captioning and analysis.

Korean 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 Korean 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 Korean audio or Korean video

Our automated captioning software will prepare your Korean 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 Korean captions is complete. That email will contain a link back to the file so you can access the interactive media player with the Korean captions, analysis, and export formats ready for you.

Step 5: View and edit your automated Korean 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 Korean captions up to full accuracy with our intuitive captions editing system.

Step 6: Export your Korean captions and share interactive media players

With Speak, you can easily export Korean captions to many formats.

Below is a list of options for exporting your Korean captions in Speak:

Export Korean captions to SRTs
Export Korean 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 Korean 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 Korean?

Speak offers highly competitive pricing for Korean captioning compared to other captioning solutions. For a starting user, Speak offers automated Korean 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 Korean captioning per month please contact us through live chat and we will set you up with a customized price per minute to make Korean captioning even more affordable!

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

What Can You Caption In Korean?

Caption Korean interviews
Caption Korean videos
Caption Korean audio
Caption Korean earnings calls
Caption Korean focus groups
Caption Korean meetings
Caption Korean phone calls
Caption Korean YouTube videos
Caption Korean Vimeo videos
Caption Korean Zoom recordings
Caption Korean Google Meet recordings
Caption Microsoft Teams recordings
Caption Korean 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 Korean Captions

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