How to add billingual captions / subtitles to the course?

[HolistAkadem]

Hi!

I'd like to ask you for some help regarding the captions / subtitles.

You see, I tried to add captions in the form of a .vtt file to my course (introduction only), but nothing seems to happen.

My goal is to add captions / subtitles for all the chapters with the option of choosing one of the 2 languages that will be added.

Please advise how to arrange that.

Thank you and have a lovely day 🙂

[ElianaC]

Hi @HolistAkadem  Great question! At this time, our system can only generate captions in English, Spanish and Portuguese for courses taught in the respective languages. For example, if a course is taught in English, only English auto-generated captions can be added to it, not Spanish or Portuguese captions. For more information on the auto-generated subtitles program, please review this support article.

We do however have a captions tool, which you can use to create and upload captions in different languages, you also have the option to download the English captions from your course, have them translated, and then upload it back to your course. Adding captions to your video lectures is a great way of increasing student engagement and accessibility for your courses. You can learn how to do this here.

Eliana 

Udemy Community Moderator