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JHB's avatar
JHB
Frequent Contributor
6 years ago
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GoToWebinar Transcriptions / Subtitles

I used the auto-transcription feature to create a text version of the webinar audio.  We need to share the webinar recording via our YouTube page. I'm not clear how to USE the G2W transcription. I se...
  • Chris Droessler's avatar
    Chris Droessler
    6 years ago

    The text you provided is a .vtt file, not a .srt file.  The subtle difference is a comma vs a period. 

     

    The VTT file looks like this

    00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:05.279

     

    The SRT file looks like this

    00:00:00,030 --> 00:00:05,279

     

    Make sure the last part is three digits, not two.  Several of yours have two digits, which might cause malfunctions.

Chris Droessler's avatar
Chris Droessler
Respected Contributor
6 years ago

You Tube will generate the closed captioning for you.  You can then go in and edit that translation to fix words that are unique to your webinar.  You probably do not have to use the GoTo translation service.

 

I post my videos to our own web site and create a .vtt file (similar to .srt) with the closed captions that plays along with the video.

JHB's avatar
JHB
Frequent Contributor
6 years ago

Thanks, I'm familiar with YouTube autogenerating, but I'd like to see how we can use the G2W file.  We have 10 webinar hosts and only one person who loads the YouTube account. (And that's just an extra task. It's not his major job.)

 

So if we know the individual hosts can do most of the work and turn over a file to be imported, that would be best.  Doesn't seem to be an option to export as a SRT file, which would be ideal.  Today, I exported the transcript and took into Word to edit, which was quicker than line by line and allowed for spell check and search/replace. Then saved as TXT file in Notepad. 

 

Supposedly you can upload an untimed transcript into YouTube and it will synchronize.  One set of "how to" instructions said this only takes 5 minutes.  The onscreen message in the YouTube configuration box says this may take "several hours".  So I'm playing around. I got an error the first time, so then stripped off G2W's timestamps.