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Explore the world of subtitles and their impact on content consumption. Learn how subtitles can improve accessibility, comprehension, and global reach.

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Why Millennials and Gen Z love captions and subtitles

Research suggests that millennials and Gen Z viewers have made captions and subtitles a regular part of their viewing experience, both by choice and sometimes out of necessity. This article discusses the trends and benefits of captions and subtitling for younger audiences.

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VTT vs. SRT: Key Differences and When to Use Each Format

In this article, we’ll walk you through the differences between VTT and SRT subtitle formats, so you can pick the one that works best for your video. Whether you’re after sleek, styled captions or just need something simple and widely compatible, we’ve got you covered!

Using Instagram subtitles will increase the inclusion, engagement, and effectiveness of your Instagram content

How to Add Subtitles to Instagram Reels: The Complete Guide

In this article, we’ll dive into why subtitles are important for your Instagram Reels and how they can improve your content. You’ll learn how tools like Happy Scribe can help you easily add captions to your videos, making them more accessible and engaging for a bigger audience.

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How Live Captioning Improves Accessibility

Live captioning, which is sometimes called real-time transcription, is the process of converting spoken dialogue or narration into text in real time. This can be done during live events or from recorded video.

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Why Eye Tracking Technology Makes Make Subtitling More Effective

An analysis of eye movements as people read subtitles? That sounds like scientific experimentation, but in fact, researchers are using viewing patterns, or “eye tracking technology,” as a tool to make subtitling more effective. This article provides an overview of how researchers are using this information to better understand what viewers focus on while watching a screen, including text, images, and other visual cues. Researchers then apply this knowledge to improve subtitle placement, formatting, timing and more!

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How Do Shot Changes Impact Subtitling?

Shot changes - transitions between different camera angles, scenes, or locations - are fundamental to storytelling in video, but also pose unique challenges for subtitling. We’ll dive deep into what shot changes are exactly and why they’re super important for providing top-quality subtitles.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG): Why They Matter for Subtitling and Transcription

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG): Why They Matter for Subtitling and Transcription

Discover why the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are crucial for subtitling and transcription, helping media companies ensure inclusivity and reach a wider audience. This article explains how WCAG standards support the deaf and hard-of-hearing community with high-quality, accurate subtitles. Learn how following these guidelines can improve your content’s accessibility and create a more inclusive digital experience. Written by Henni Paulsen, June 2024.

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How To Make Audiovisual Content EAA-Compliant

In this article, you'll learn all about the European Accessibility Act (EAA) and its requirements for making audiovisual content accessible through subtitles and captions. It also explains how automating the subtitling process can save you time and money, improve accessibility, and engage a broader audience. Article written by Henni Paulsen, June 2024.

Add Spanish Subtitles to Your Video More Efficiently

Adding Spanish Subtitles to Your Movies and Videos: Simple Steps

Do you need Spanish subtitles for your videos? Learn how to translate and transcribe English audio quickly while maintaining contextual accuracy.

How to add subtitles

How to Add Subtitles to your Video

Not sure how to add subtitles to a YouTube video? In this article you will find some of the best and easiest ways to add captions to videos.

Difference Between CC and SDH

Exploring the Differences between SDH and Closed Captioning

Dive into the differences between SDH and closed captions, and discover how Happy Scribe can revolutionize your video accessibility with automatic, customizable, and multilingual transcriptions.

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How to make your job posting more attractive, accessible, and effective with subtitles

Adding subtitles to videos can increase audience engagement, improve accessibility, and help promote a positive image of a company, making it a useful tool for job postings and promotions.

How to Get a Free SRT File

How to Get a Free SRT File

Use Happy Scribe to get a free SRT file for your 30-minute video.

What is the Best Subtitle Font? (Top 5)

What is the Best Subtitle Font? (Top 5)

Your subtitles need to be readable and perfectly synced with the video and perfectly follow the reading skills of your audience. For example, you don't make subtitles for adults the same as subtitles for children.

How to Add Captions to YouTube Videos

How to Add Captions to YouTube Videos

Have you ever wondered how to add captions to YouTube videos? Well, this step by step guide will show you how to get accurate captions quickly.

Record or Take Notes?: What are the Pros and Cons

Record or Take Notes?: What are the Pros and Cons

What are the pros and cons of recording and note-taking? Which one is right for you?

How to Burn Subtitles to a Video? (Definitive Guide 2024)

How to Burn Subtitles to a Video? (Definitive Guide 2024)

The definitive guide to generating subtitles and captions automatically to your videos and hardcode them directly to your video.

How to Add Captions to IGTV Videos

How to Add Captions to IGTV Videos

This step by step guide will show you how to add captions to IGTV Videos

Make Web Content More Accessible for the Hard of Hearing

Make Web Content More Accessible for the Hard of Hearing

Seven practical solutions audio and video creators can implement to make web content more accessible for the Deaf and hard of hearing.

Questions to Ask When Organising a Focus Group

Questions to Ask When Organising a Focus Group

Getting insightful data from any focus group begins with meticulous pre-planning. Start by asking these five essential questions.

Transcript of "Coronavirus in the workplace - World Health Organization"

Transcript of "Coronavirus in the workplace - World Health Organization"

We transcribed one of the videos from the World Health Organization about Coronavirus in the workplace.

Best Speech to Text App for iPhone in 2020 (free) - Blog

Best Speech to Text App for iPhone in 2020 (free) - Blog

Did you ever wonder if they were an iPhone application that was able to record and transcribe the audio into text at the same time?

Boost Your GPA by Recording Lectures

Boost Your GPA by Recording Lectures

Increasing your GPA is easy when you record and transcribe your lectures. Here is how audio to text technology can help you.

How To Get Quality Recordings On Your Phone

How To Get Quality Recordings On Your Phone

How do you get a quality audio recording on your smartphone? Follow these simple steps. Better audio means a more accurate automatic transcription.

Facebook Page Videos: How To Get Accurate Captions

Facebook Page Videos: How To Get Accurate Captions

How do you get accurate subtitles and captions on your Facebook page videos? It is actually easier than you think. Here is an easy step-by-step guide to follow.

How to Transcribe Instagram Stories and Videos

How to Transcribe Instagram Stories and Videos

Transcribing your Instagram stories is great way to improve your SEO and maintain strong Google Search rankings for your videos. Instagram stories are one of the most popular features of Instagram, but most aren’t accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people. So what to do? How do you

How to Create a WebVTT File

How to Create a WebVTT File

Creating a WebVTT subtitle file is lightening fast with Happy Scribe's Subtitle Generator. This tutorial shows you how.

Easily Add Captions to Facebook Profile Page Videos

Easily Add Captions to Facebook Profile Page Videos

How do you add captions to Facebook profile page videos? It is actually easier than you think. Here is an easy step-by-step guide to follow.

Two Ways To Digitise Your Cassettes

Two Ways To Digitise Your Cassettes - a Quick How To

There are two easy ways to convert audio cassette tapes to a digital format such as MP3. Happy Scribe shows you how.

Create Meeting Minutes Accurately and Quickly

Create Meeting Minutes Accurately and Quickly

Creating minutes of a meeting doesn't have to be time-consuming. Use an automatic transcription service provider to get meeting minutes accurately and quickly.

Best Free Subtitle Font for Multiple Languages

Best Free Subtitle Font for Multiple Languages

To avoid 'tofu' when you subtitle, use this free subtitle font for multiple languages.

How To Record and Transcribe an Academic Lecture

How To Record and Transcribe an Academic Lecture

Follow these simples steps to get the most from recording and automatically transcribing your academic lecture.

Check Your Video for Accessibility

Check Your Video for Accessibility

Use Happy Scribe's handy checklist to see if your video is accessible.

How to force subtitles to appear on Youtube?

How to force subtitles to appear on Youtube?

Adding subtitles to your Youtube video is a great move if you want to increase your viewership and make your content more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing. By default Youtube does not display closed captions. In this tutorial, we will show you step by step what to do

Crucial Reasons Why You Need Show Notes

Crucial Reasons Why You Need Show Notes

Crafting quality show notes has many benefits, but creating them doesn't have to be time-consuming. We show you the benefits and how automatic transcription can speed up the process.

Record and Transcribe a Google Meet Video in Any Language:French, Spanish, Arabic, Italian

Record and Transcribe a Google Hangouts Meet Video in Any Language: French, Spanish, Arabic, Italian

Learn how to record and transcribe a Google Hangouts Meet video in any language: French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Italian or +114 other languages and accents.

5 Step Process to Effectively Analyse Qualitative Data

5 Step Process to Effectively Analyse Qualitative Data

These five simple steps will help you to effectively analyse your qualitative data and save you time in the process.

Common Mistakes in Transcribing Video to Text

Common Mistakes in Transcribing Video to Text

Are you a video editor transcribing video audio to text? Make sure you are avoiding these these common mistakes.

Hacks for transcribing interviews for your dissertation

Hacks for transcribing interviews for your dissertation

It’s that time of year when dissertations are being put together for submission. With anything from 10,000 to 15,000 words to type up, it can be both an exhausting and time-consuming process. However, with dissertations accounting for a sizeable chunk of your final grade, it’s also

The Importance of Time-codes and Timestamps in a Transcript

The Importance of Time-codes and Timestamps in a Transcript

The Importance of Time-codes and Timestamps in a Transcript

Essential Productivity Tools for Journalists

Essential Productivity Tools for Journalists

If you are a journalist, you know that your job depends on your ability to be productive. From note-taking to automatic transcription to cloud storage, here are the five most essential productivity tools that you should be using.

How to Add Captions to Blackboard Videos

How to Add Captions to Blackboard Videos

There is a quick and cost-effective way to ensure that online courses are accessible to all: add captions to Blackboard videos. Happy Scribe shows you how.

4 Reasons Why E-Learning Videos MUST Include Transcripts

4 Reasons Why E-Learning Videos MUST Include Transcripts

Including transcripts with e-Learning videos helps improve the overall learning experience for both learners and teachers. Here's how.

Ways To Conduct Qualitative Research Faster

Ways To Conduct Qualitative Research Faster

Today we look at some of these technological tools that can save you time and angst when conducting your qualitative research

How Recording Your Voice Can Dislodge Writer's Block

How Recording Your Voice Can Dislodge Writer's Block

One way to dislodge writer's block is to record your words, then use a transcription service provider to convert the audio to text. Here are three ways this helps.

Elements to Consider When Adding Subtitles to Videos

Elements to Consider When Adding Subtitles to Videos

Readable and attractive subtitles are essential to grabbing people’s attention and keeping them engaged. Look at our tips on what elements to consider before adding subtitles to your videos.

Benefits of Writing a Book By Dictation

Benefits of Writing a Book By Dictation

New technological advances means new ways of writing. Today's writers are ditching typing for recording. So just what are the benefits of dictating your book?

Essential Equipment for High-Quality Recordings

Essential Equipment for High-Quality Recordings

High-quality recordings are essential to transform an interview into a high-quality transcription. To achieve crystal clear sound quality invest in this essential equipment.

How To Add Subtitles to A LinkedIn Video

How To Add Subtitles to A LinkedIn Video

Adding subtitles to your LinkedIn video posts is a simple process. Happy Scribe shows you how.

Happy Scribe Rated Best Audio to Text Transcription Tool

Happy Scribe Rated Best Audio to Text Transcription Tool

Let’s Learn rates Happy Scribe as the best audio to text transcription tool for converting non-English language audio to text.

Tools All UX Researchers Should Use

Tools All UX Researchers Should Use

There are hundreds of UX researcher tools out there. We at Happy Scribe have both scoured the Internet and asked our service designer friends to isolate the top rated UX researcher tools for you.

The Difference Between Closed Captions and Open Captions

The difference between closed captions and open captions

There is nothing quite like enjoying a good film, series or documentary, and really getting immersed in the story. But what happens when that great piece of art is not in a language you can understand? And what happens when you can see the video but physically can’t hear the audio? That’s where subtitles and closed captions (CC) come in. Both bits of timed on-screen text offer language access and language accessibility, supporting a full viewing experience, but they do so in different ways. In this article we are going to explain how.

YouTube Auto Captions: 4 Things You Should Consider Before Using

YouTube Auto Captions: 4 Things You Should Consider Before Using

Using YouTube's automatic captioning service is tempting: it's free. However, there are some serious limitations to consider.

What Are SDH Subtitles & Why Should Your Videos Have Them?

What Are SDH Subtitles & Why Should Your Videos Have Them?

SDH subtitles ensure that video content can be accessed by the entire Internet population. Happy Scribe discusses their attributes and why you should use them.

Tips and Techniques for the Perfect Interview

Tips and Techniques for the Perfect Interview

These tips and techniques will help ensure that you conduct a professional interview and help you get meaningful information and useable quotes.

Three essential tools that all 
freelance writers should use

Three essential tools that all freelance writers should use

If you’re one of the many freelance writers that makes up the ‘gig economy’, you’re in good company. Latest figures suggest that there’s 2 million freelancers in the UK, most of whom work in professional and technical occupations – namely writing. As self-employment has grown, so has the

Host, Record & Transcribe a Successful Virtual Meeting During COVID-19

Host, Record & Transcribe a Successful Virtual Meeting During COVID-19

Conference rooms around the world are now in darkness, with many businesses relying on virtual meetings to stay connected. Follow these tips to host, record and transcribe a successful virtual meeting.

How to create AVID Markers from an automatic transcript

How to create AVID Markers from an automatic transcript

For documentary producers, it can be very important to create markers to fast-track the editing process. Postproduction and production companies can use Happy Scribe to fast-track their projects. Creating transcripts is making the post-editing process much more efficient. However, when you have dozens if not hundreds of recording hour to

What is an SRT File? How to create and use SRT Files

What is an SRT File? How to create and use SRT Files

An SRT file allows video editors to insert subtitles or closed captions. Learn how to easily create a custom SRT file.

Zoom Webinars: Record Locally or to the Cloud?

Zoom Webinars: Record Locally or to the Cloud?

Zoom Webinars and Zoom Meetings are an excellent way to keep businesses running when travel restrictions increase. Find out all the pros and cons of recording a Zoom Webinar.

Best Online Tools for Researchers

Best Online Tools for Researchers

Do you need to improve your workflow as a researcher? If so, check out our recommendation of the best online tools for researchers.

How to create Adobe Premiere Markers from an automatic transcript

How to create Adobe Premiere Markers from an automatic transcript

For documentary producers, it can be very important to create markers to fast-track the editing process. Postproduction and production companies can use Happy Scribe to fast-track their projects. Creating transcripts is making the post-editing process much more efficient. However, when you have dozens if not hundreds of recording hour to

5 great tools for journalists and writers

5 great tools for journalists and writers

Marc and I have curated a list of tools for you that could be useful in your everyday jobs. It includes five tools that we love and that, we believe, could be useful for you too. Don’t hesitate to contact me at andre@happyscribe.co to tell us about