Editing Echo360 Transcriptions and Uploading Closed Captions

Once ASR Transcription has been turned on you may notice errors and/or want to edit the transcriptions to turn them into perfect closed captions. 

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  1. Log into Echo360 through this link.
  2. In the Courses tab, click on the course you would like to edit the transcription for.
Course tab in Echo360, where all available courses are listed
Course Media Button in Course tab of Echo360. Click on it will appear a dropdown menu
  1. Go to the row corresponding to the particular recording you would like to edit and click on the Course Media button.
  2. Next, click on Edit Transcript from the dropdown menu.
Dropdown menu that appears after selecting Course Media Button. The Edit Transcript button is selected
  1. Click on the Edit Transcript button.
Edit Transcript button in Transcript editor. Click will enable transcript editing
  1. In the Transcript Editing mode, you can adjust the slider on the top right of the screen to adjust the level of confidence that each word was transcribed properly. It will automatically highlight the words or phrases that have confidence equal to or below the level of confidence selected.
In the file editing page. The word-confidence-slider and the text that is below the confidence is highlighted.
  1. Go through your recording and the transcript, making sure the text is correct.
  2. After you have done editing the transcript, click on the Save as new version button in the top right corner to save the transcript.
  3. To apply the transcript as a closed caption, click on the Apply To CC button. Echo 360 will directly apply the transcript to the Closed Caption within the video. 
In the editing transcript page, the Apply To CC button is highlighted


 

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This Content Last Updated:
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