How To Create Thai Captions
Are you looking to create captions in Thai? Thai is the official language of Thailand and is also spoken in countries such as Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar. According to Ethnologue, over 27 million people speak Thai across the world.
Creating Thai captions is an essential step in making your audio and video content accessible to a wider audience. Captions can also increase engagement, help with SEO and provide more opportunities for translation.
In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of transcription and creating captions for audio and video in the Thai language. We’ll also discuss the differences between captions and subtitles. Finally, we’ll provide an overview of Speak AI, a leading speech recognition and natural language platform with over 50,000 users.
What are Captions?
Captions are text versions of the audio content in a video or audio file. Captions provide a written representation of the dialogue and sound effects. Captions also include other information, such as speaker identification and sound effects.
Captions are different from subtitles. Subtitles are intended to help viewers understand foreign audio or dialogue that isn’t in their native language. Captions, on the other hand, focus on providing a full transcription of the audio and video content.
The Benefits of Transcription and Captioning
Transcription and captioning your audio and video content can provide numerous benefits. Here are a few of the most notable:
Improve Accessibility
Captions make your audio and video content accessible to viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing. Captions also make it easier for viewers who are not native speakers of the language used in the audio or video content.
Increase Engagement
Captions can help to increase engagement with your content, as viewers can follow along with the audio and video content even if they’re in a noisy environment. This can be especially helpful when marketing on social media platforms such as YouTube and Instagram.
Provide More Opportunities for Translation
Captions can provide more opportunities for translation, as many translation services use the transcription as a starting point for their translation. This can help to make your content more widely accessible and help you to reach new audiences.
Help With SEO
Captions can help with SEO, as search engines are able to crawl and index the text in your captions. This can help to increase the visibility of your content in search engine results.
Creating Thai Captions Using Speak AI
Speak AI is a speech recognition and natural language platform with over 50,000 users. The platform enables users to easily transcribe, edit and create captions for audio and video content in over 120 languages, including Thai.
Using Speak AI, you can quickly and easily create high-quality Thai captions. The platform offers a range of tools and features to help you create captions quickly and accurately. With Speak AI, you can also export your captions in a variety of formats, such as SRT, VTT and XML.
Speak AI also offers a range of features that make it easier to create captions, such as auto-synchronization, multi-speaker identification, and automatic punctuation. The platform also offers a range of tools to help researchers, marketers and businesses make the most of their audio and video content.
Conclusion
Creating Thai captions can help you to make your audio and video content accessible to a wider audience and increase engagement with your content. Speak AI is a leading speech recognition and natural language platform that enables users to easily create captions for audio and video content in over 120 languages, including Thai. With Speak AI, you can quickly and easily create high-quality Thai captions that are SEO-optimized. Sign up today and start creating captions in Thai!
Step 1: Create a Speak Account
To start your Thai 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 Thai audio and video captioning included.
To sign up for Speak and start your Thai captioning, visit the Speak app register page here.
Step 2: Upload your Thai 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 “Thai” from the language dropdown menu to automatically caption in Thai.
You can upload your Thai file for captioning in several ways using Speak:
Accepted Thai Audio File Types
- Thai MP3
- Thai M4A
- Thai WAV
- Thai OGG
- Thai WEBM
- Thai M4P
Accepted Thai Video File Types
- Thai MP4
- Thai M4V
- Thai WMV
- Thai AVI
- Thai MOV
- Thai FLV
Publicly Available Thai 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 Thai captioning and analysis.
Thai 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 Thai 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 Thai audio or Thai video
Our automated captioning software will prepare your Thai 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 Thai captions is complete. That email will contain a link back to the file so you can access the interactive media player with the Thai captions, analysis, and export formats ready for you.
Step 5: View and edit your automated Thai 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 Thai captions up to full accuracy with our intuitive captions editing system.
Step 6: Export your Thai captions and share interactive media players
With Speak, you can easily export Thai captions to many formats.
Below is a list of options for exporting your Thai captions in Speak:
- Export Thai captions to SRTs
- Export Thai 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 Thai 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 Thai?
Speak offers highly competitive pricing for Thai captioning compared to other captioning solutions. For a starting user, Speak offers automated Thai 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 Thai captioning per month please contact us through live chat and we will set you up with a customized price per minute to make Thai captioning even more affordable!
You can learn more about how to caption Thai with Speak and the relevant pricing on the website pricing page and the in-app pricing page.
What Can You Caption In Thai?
- Caption Thai interviews
- Caption Thai videos
- Caption Thai audio
- Caption Thai earnings calls
- Caption Thai focus groups
- Caption Thai meetings
- Caption Thai phone calls
- Caption Thai YouTube videos
- Caption Thai Vimeo videos
- Caption Thai Zoom recordings
- Caption Thai Google Meet recordings
- Caption Microsoft Teams recordings
- Caption Thai 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 German (Swiss) Captions
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- 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
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- How To Create Latvian Captions
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- 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
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- How To Create Ukrainian Captions
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There are now many more added!
You can see the entire list of languages Speak supports through both the software and APIs.