Subtitles in the course videos
G-Talent automatically subtitles English or Spanish courses to make the content fully accessible to learners around the world. Subtitles help non-native speakers better understand the course. Additionally, it improves intelligibility, enhances learning, and improves accessibility for deaf students.
Subtitles are generated using speech recognition technology and are typically generated within 8 hours of course submission for evaluation and review by G-Talent authorities. Please refer to the automatically generated subtitles for course videos. It is important to review your subtitles and improve their quality if they contain jargon, acronyms, names of people or places.
Subtitle programs are currently limited to English content only. However, you can add automatically generated subtitles in other languages if you prefer.
About descriptive subtitles
It is well known that adding subtitles to a video not only promotes digital engagement for viewers with hearing impairments, but also greatly improves the usability of the content. Here we tell you the importance of including descriptive subtitles to your videos.
1. Greater understanding
Including descriptive subtitles makes your content more understandable. Honestly, this point would be enough to stop what you're doing and start adding subtitles to your videos right away. Because descriptive subtitles improve the understanding of your content in several ways:
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Specific terms and proper names can be recognized and understood the first time you hear or read them, even with subtitles.
Content in foreign languages or with strong accents is much easier to view in videos with subtitles. Of course, it is also possible to offer subtitles in more than one language to make the video reach a wider audience.
Background noise and poor video or audio quality can be compensated for by adding subtitles, as they reinforce the content or narration.
2. Involve students
Subtitled videos not only make your content accessible to everyone, but also make it accessible anywhere and anytime. You've probably experienced this yourself: you're in a noisy place like public transport or the office, you forgot your headphones, or you have the kind of headphones that entertain people around you, but you still want to watch a video.
It's very simple. If you add subtitles to your videos, students will still be able to watch them. Without them, there's no point in watching the video because they probably won't understand anything. And that's a loss for both parties: the service provider doesn't reach as many people as it could.
A study found that over 80% of social media videos are watched without sound and users miss out on valuable and enriching content.
3. Improve SEO search
By adding subtitles, all files, as well as all videos, become searchable. And it's not just an internal advantage. All search engines work with text. With subtitles, you significantly improve the search engine optimization of your videos, which means that search engines can find and rank your content, which increases traffic to your videos.
4. Improve your language skills
Nowadays, it is quite common to learn a new language online or through an app. Did you know that the learning effect can be enhanced by watching videos in the language you are learning with appropriate subtitles? But not only that: research also shows that subtitles are very helpful for students or people diagnosed with learning disabilities, autism or attention deficit disorder.
5. Intercultural communication
Videos with subtitles give access to a whole new world – the world of foreign cultures. Only a few movies, series or videos are translated into multiple languages, and without subtitles, we would definitely miss them. With subtitles, everyone has access to these movies, series or videos, regardless of language.
6. Repurposing content
With subtitle transcripts, you can repurpose your content – for example, you can create a blog post or write an article or summary.
7. Solve concentration problems
Movies and videos that are too long will likely lose their punch at some point. The result is a lack of focus and a loss of great content. Adding subtitles to videos can help a student concentrate and will relax their brain, even when faced with strong accents, complex content, or annoying background noise.
8. Translations based on descriptive subtitles and transcriptions
If you have a transcript or descriptive subtitles for your content, you can easily translate or transliterate it for yourself, which by the way greatly increases your geographic reach.
