Transcripts
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It is a requirement for videos to have a text alternative. Therefore a transcript must be provided as either a downloadable link directly before or after the video, or as text directly after the video. A transcript must include both word-for-word descriptions as well as descriptions of what is happening on screen.
Creating a transcript is also necessary and helpful in creating captions and audio descriptions.
Things to note when creating a transcript
When creating your transcripts, it is important to remember:
- To create your transcript in an accessible format with headings and styles.
- If speech content is not relevant then it can be excluded from the transcript
- Information about the speech should be added in brackets
Video Walkthrough
How to create transcripts
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Putting your transcripts to use on OzPlayer
- OzPlayer uses an interactive transcript. An interactive transcript must:
- Keep track with the video
- Not mark the current position in the transcript with colour alone.
- To make the transcript interactive for OzPlayer, it uses the timed captions track to move through the transcript at the right times. However, there needs to be two tracks for the timing, one for the captions and one for the audio descriptions.
- The captioning section of this training document will take you through how to create both tracks for the interactive transcript.
- Follow the steps on the Getting started with OzPlayer page.
Example Transcript
The following video is the featured example video in this training course. The transcript appears directly after the video.
Landscape view of the Amazon
Zooms into red-capped manakin.
Red-capped manakin bird (Kevin) moonwalking up and down tree branch
Kevin: Oww! Heee heee! Heee heee!
Kevin’s mother flies onto the branch too.
Kevin’s mother: Oh Kevin, that’s a lovely tribute
Kevin: I just miss him mum.
[Music stops]
Marmot sitting up yelling at top of lungs
Marmot: Alan! Alan! Alan! Alan! Alan! Al! Alan!
Bird waving its left wing awkwardly in open field
Bird: Scuse me, I’m have a bit of trouble with my wing I think it’s broken.
Close up of the bird
Can anyone help?
View of second bird
Preacher bird: Do I know anyone who can help?!
[Gospel music begins]Preacher bird stands up straight with both wings up in the air
Preacher Bird: Gather round brothers and sisters, join me!
More birds gather around the preacher bird.
Are you ready to receive the healing, ready to receive the love?!
[Music ends]
Wetlands with a black heron covering its head repeatedly with its wings and popping its head out from under them.
Black heron: Night time…DAYTIME! Night time…DAYTIME! Night time…DAYTIME!
A spoonbill walks up beside the black heron.
Spoonbill: What are you doing?
Black heron: Having a game of night time day time. You wanna play?
Spoonbill: No, I’ve got an Xbox
[Music starts (Low – Flo Rid feat T-Pain)]
Badgers twisting from side to side looking like they are DJing.
[Music ends]
Back to marmot sitting up yelling at top of lungs
Marmot: Alan! Alan! Alan! Alan! Alan!
Two roatan spider monkey’s sitting on a branch with one looking into the others mouth.
Spider monkey dentist: If you would just like to open wide sir.
Spider monkey patient: Okay [mumbles]
Spider monkey dentist: Are you going anywhere nice on your holidays?
Spider monkey patient: [tries a mumbled reply]
Spider monkey dentist: Yeah yep don’t try and talk when my hands are in your mouth sir. Ah my wife and I are thinking of going abroad this year….Dudley. She’s got ah family in a zoo over there. You got kids?
Spider monkey patient: [tries a mumbled reply]
Spider monkey dentist: Please, please don’t talk when my hands are in your mouth sir. Could do with a filling here at the back. Is it mainly bananas you eat?
Spider monkey patient: [tries a mumbled reply]
Spider monkey dentist: I won’t, I won’t tell you again sir. Please don’t try and speak when I am working inside your mouth. Right, I’m just gonna try a cheeky little taste.
Spider monkey dentist tastes finger which had been in patients mouth.
That’s um not bad actually. Um almost done, just need to smell your breath.
Spider monkey dentist smells patients breath
Spider monkey dentist: Oh, oh……oh that is rank, I think I need to lie down
Spider monkey dentist falls backwards and lies down.
Two Giraffes standing side by side.
Giraffe female: She’s all neck and legs, look at her!
Giraffe male: Oh I am looking at her.
Giraffe female: Stop looking at her!
Female giraffe bashes male with head
Giraffe male: You just told me to look at her!
Both giraffes beging bashing each other with heads
Female giraffe: Ow!
Male giraffe: Ow!
Female giraffe: Ow!
Male giraffe: Ow!
Close up of a gorillas face.
Gorilla: I don’t know why but I don’t seem to have a lot of luck with women. I mean I’m kind and caring
[Farting]Gorilla: No it’s a mystery that.
Chip monk standing on a rock with its hands at its mouth.
Chip monk: [beatboxing]
A field mouse looking over a rock shouting.
Field mouse: Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!
[Gun shot sound]Field mouse: Aah! I didn’t think he’d do it!
Otter floating in the water on its back.
Otter: At the Copa, Copacabana. Music and fashion were always the passion at the Copa….HEY!
The otter stops and stares at the camera
Are you filming me in bath? Get out! Away with ya I’m naked you better not put it on YouTube!
Fish meandering along near the ocean floor.
Fish: Oh what a day! Network crash, lost me wallet, phones ran outta battery. Couldn’t get any worse!
Camouflaged shark under the sand strikes out and swallows the fish
Fish [from inside shark]: Eeh! Oooh cracking stuff!
Back to marmot sitting up yelling at top of lungs
Marmot: Ooh that’s not Alan. Steve that’s Steve……Steve! Steve! Steve! Steve! Steve! Steve!
Small group of meerkats standing on their hind legs all facing the same way
Meerkat 1: John, I don’t think we are allowed to wee here.
Meerkat 2: It’s fine, just keep a look out!
[zipper sound]
Meerkat 1: What was that!
Meerkat 2: That was me zip!
Camera zooms out to show a large group of meerkats all standing in the same place facing the same way
Meerkat 1: Wooow! Wh…where’d all these come from! You know me lads, I can’t wee with an audience!
Owl standing on the ground looking around
Owl 1: Oh I tell you what, I don’t like that man that’s just moved in next door. Oh he’s really creepy.
[Dramatic music begins]View of the neighbour owl sitting in a tree looking straight at the camera.
Camera zooms right into a close up of the owls face
[Music ends]Neighbour owl: Oh hello! Could I trouble you for a cup of sugar please!
End of transcript