A tutorial from YouTube’s Creator Academy about adding captions and subtitles to videos. It explains how to create, upload, and auto-sync captions on YouTube, highlighting the importance of accessibility and offering tips for quality subtitle contributions.
YouTube Creator Academy – Captions Read More »
Netflix’s style guide for subtitles and captions outlines the editorial and formatting standards for timed text on their platform. It’s a comprehensive resource for best practices in captioning (e.g., line length, timing, speaker labels) that is often referenced industry-wide.
Netflix Timed Text Style Guide (English) Read More »
The European Union’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) includes requirements for accessibility (subtitles, audio description, sign language) on TV and on-demand services. Resources here outline how video service providers must comply to ensure content is accessible to people with disabilities.
EU AVMSD Accessibility Requirements Read More »
The W3C IMSC (Internet Media Subtitles and Captions) 1.1 specification defines a profile of TTML (Timed Text Markup Language) for subtitles and captions, used in streaming and broadcasting (like by Netflix, IMF). It’s a modern standard for rich text subtitles including styling and positioning.
IMSC 1.1 (TTML for subtitles) Read More »
The W3C recommendation for WebVTT, a text format for captioning and subtitling web video. It defines the syntax for caption files used in HTML5 video.
Web Video Text Tracks Format (WebVTT) Read More »
Defines formatting for text tracks webvtt or ttml
TTML/WebVTT Coding of audio-visual objects – ISO/IEC 14496-30 Read More »
CCExtractor – Official version maintained by the core team – CCExtractor/ccextractor
CCExtractor/ccextractor: CCExtractor – Official version maintained by the core team Read More »
AutoSub is a CLI application to generate subtitle file (.srt) for any video file using Mozilla DeepSpeech – abhirooptalasila/AutoSub
abhirooptalasila/AutoSub Read More »
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