Videolinq's EDIT offers a cost-effective and efficient way to add AI-Based automated native or translated captions to live streams while improving the accuracy of the output captions before they are inserted back into the broadcast. "Captions" refers to creating text from the native spoken language, while "Subtitles" are the creation of text translation from the native spoken language. In this article we will address all speech-to-text data created as "captions". Automated captions is a fee-based service. This article explains how to add automated captions to four types of video sources:

Videolinq offers the automated captions as three "outputs":

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Open the channel. Click on Sources. Click on the webcam or virtual meeting radio and "Update".

Expand the controls tab under the preview player and click on the Captions tab. Check the radio of the automated captions option. Last, push "Go Live".

When you see live video in the preview player it means the channel is active. Go back to the Captions tab. Select the required delay to edit the captions before they are inserted into the live stream. Drop down "Select Language" to match the audio source. Drop down "Translate" to select a target language, or set it to "None" if no translation is needed. Leave the "Language Model" as-is or try an alternative ti improve the output. Click on the "Start" icon to begin.

Wait about 60 seconds until you see captions in the preview player. Click on the "Editor" to access EDIT.

Real-time closed captioning will appear in EDIT. The red countdown number tells you how many seconds you have before the captions box disappears. Edit the text as needed. Click outside the text box to autosave changes. After the broadcast ends export SRT VTT or transcripts in PDF format.

When the live broadcast ends do the following:

First, read this article and learn how to configure your RTMP output stream. Next, open the channel. Click on Sources. Click on the RTMP radio and "Update".

Expand the controls tab under the preview player and click on the Captions tab. Check the radio of the automated closed captioning option.

Click and expand the Encoder tab. Copy the RTMP path and stream key to your preferred media encoder.

Start your media encoder. Confirm you see video in the preview player. Push "Go Live".

Go back to the Captions tab. Select the required delay to edit the captions before they are inserted into the live stream. Drop down "Select Language" to match the audio source. Drop down "Translate" to select a target language, or set it to "None" if no translation is needed. Leave the "Language Model" as-is or try an alternative ti improve the output. Click on the "Start" icon to begin.

Wait about 60 seconds until you see captions in the preview player. Click on the "Editor" to access EDIT.

Real-time closed captioning will appear in EDIT. The red countdown number tells you how many seconds you have before the captions box disappears. Edit the text as needed. Click outside the text box to autosave changes. After the broadcast ends export SRT VTT or transcripts in PDF format.

When the live broadcast ends do the following:

Open the channel. Click on Sources. Click on the Stream radio, and place in the text box the RTMP or RTSP path to a live stream. Click "Update".

Expand the controls tab under the preview player and click on the Captions tab. Check the radio of the automated closed captioning option. Last, push "Go Live".

When you see live video in the preview player it means the channel is active. Go back to the Captions tab. Select the required delay to edit the captions before they are inserted into the live stream. Drop down "Select Language" to match the audio source. Drop down "Translate" to select a target language, or set it to "None" if no translation is needed. Leave the "Language Model" as-is or try an alternative ti improve the output. Click on the "Start" icon to begin.

Wait about 60 seconds until you see captions in the preview player. Click on the "Editor" to access EDIT.

Real-time closed captioning will appear in EDIT. The red countdown number tells you how many seconds you have before the captions box disappears. Edit the text as needed. Click outside the text box to autosave changes. After the broadcast ends export SRT VTT or transcripts in PDF format.

When the live broadcast ends do the following:

Open the channel. Click on Sources. Click on the File radio. Upload recorded MP4 file, or drop down to select previously uploaded media. Click "Update".

Expand the controls tab under the preview player and click on the Captions tab. Check the radio of the automated closed captioning option. Last, push "Go Live".

When you see live video in the preview player it means the channel is active. Go back to the Captions tab. Select the required delay to edit the captions before they are inserted into the live stream. Drop down "Select Language" to match the audio source. Drop down "Translate" to select a target language, or set it to "None" if no translation is needed. Leave the "Language Model" as-is or try an alternative ti improve the output. Click on the "Start" icon to begin.

Wait about 60 seconds until you see captions in the preview player. Click on the "Editor" to access EDIT.

Real-time closed captioning will appear in EDIT. The red countdown number tells you how many seconds you have before the captions box disappears. Edit the text as needed. Click outside the text box to autosave changes. After the broadcast ends export SRT VTT or transcripts in PDF format.

When the live broadcast ends do the following:

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