Speaker IDs and Non-Speech in Captions
A style guide for speaker labels, bracketed sound, italics for off-screen speech, and music cues that auto-captions drop and d/Deaf viewers actually need.
A style guide for speaker labels, bracketed sound, italics for off-screen speech, and music cues that auto-captions drop and d/Deaf viewers actually need.
Segment timestamps and 30-second window rounding accumulate. Use VAD-first segmentation, forced alignment, and a frame-rate check before you generate cues.
Phone footage and screen recordings often carry variable frame rate. Detect VFR, transcode to a constant rate, then caption so cues stop drifting.
Every talking-head video already contains its own transcript. What it's actually raw material for, and why the text file outlasts the burned-in caption.
Transcription covers 165 language codes. Dubbing covers 25. Six TTS engines each cover a different subset. Here is the real coverage picture, snapshot dated.