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After uploading a video to bCourses using Kaltura, computer-generated closed captions are automatically added to your video file. While computer-generated captions can be helpful, they often have significant errors and fail to meet accessibility guidelines. Kaltura provides an intuitive interface to fix common transcription errors, add speaker identification, and identify meaningful sounds within your video. To begin, navigate to your bCourses course page and select the "My Media" tab from the Course Navigation menu. Then, locate the video with the captions you'd like to revise and select the pencil icon to the right of the video title.

Next, locate the captions tab and then select "Edit Captions." Now that you're in the closed captions editor you're free to scroll through the transcript and modify it. The first thing to do is correct any errors in punctuation, capitalization, spelling, or grammar. Select a text box and begin typing to correct the text. It can be helpful to scrub through the video and listen closely to the audio while making these types of corrections. Another thing to do in the closed captions editor is add speaker identification. This indicates to the audience who is speaking at a given moment. Select the text box where a speaker begins their part and then in the box labelled “Add Speaker” type the name of the speaker and select "add." In this example there is only one speaker, the narrator.

The last thing to do in the closed captions editor is identify parts with meaningful audio — for example, sound effects or music. To do this you'll need to add a new text box where the meaningful audio begins. Select the plus icon at the bottom of an existing text box and then in brackets, describe the audio. To make sure the new caption doesn't overlap with existing captions, you can manually adjust the timing using the timecode boxes.

Once you've made these improvements to the video's caption transcript simply select the "save" button. Now when someone views your video with closed captioning turned on, your revised captions will be displayed.

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