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Re: Tools to preparing captions (subtitles)

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: May 17, 2013 1:31PM

I know that Jeff Pledger used MAGpie with JAWS many years ago, back when I worked on MAGpie (if list members remember me with a WGBH email address, you're getting old!), but I'm not sure if NVDA works with it or not, nor do I remember whether Jeff had to write custom scripts or do any sort of heroics to make it work.

If I was going to try this task, I'd write the transcript in paragraph form, then break up the text with line breaks to form captions (i.e. full carriage return after end-sentence punctuation, line break to form a second line of a caption, full carriage return to start a new caption within a sentence when necessary). Then I'd upload the video and transcript to youTube (keeping the URL private), upload the transcript to youtube, and get youTube to sync the captions with the video content. Then, I'd export the caption file and make minor tweaks in a text editor. The caveat is that while I hear that this works, I've not tried it myself, but it is worth a shot.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems