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Multilingual Transcripts
- include each language within each transcript units
- keep language order consistent within transcript units
- separate languages with specific characters, like /
Here's an incorrectly formatted text transcript with multiple languages.
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Welcome to Audio-Video! Bienvenido a Audio-Video! Puedes crear transcripciones con Audio-Video. / You can create transcripts with Audio-Video. This transcript won’t play back with the video, but it’s still useful for people who want to read the contents. / Esta transcripción no se reproducirá con el video, pero aún es útil para las personas que desean leer el contenido. |
Inconsistent order of languages in the second transcript unit
No separator between languages in the first transcript unit
Here's the same transcript, corrected:
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Welcome to Audio-Video! / Bienvenido a Audio-Video! You can create transcripts with Audio-Video. / Puedes crear transcripciones con Audio-Video. This transcript won’t play back with the video, but it’s still useful for people who want to read the contents. / Esta transcripción no se reproducirá con el video, pero aún es útil para las personas que desean leer el contenido. |
The separator / appears consistently between languages in a unit
Languages always appear with English first, then Spanish
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Mandala recognizes multilingual transcripts. This lets you include multiple languages and translations in one transcript file. You can use these transcripts to make multilingual captions.
You can separate languages by:
- Putting each language on a new line, OR
- Using a sequence of characters to separate languages
- You can use any set of characters, as long as the set is consistent
Here's an example using / to separate out languages.
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Hello, welcome to Audio-Video./Hola, bienvenido a Audio-Video.
You can create dynamic transcripts with Audio-Video./Usted puede crear transcripciónes con Audio-Video.
We can help you get started quickly./Nosotros podemos ayudarle a empezar rápidamente. |
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Make sure each language always appears in the same order. In the case above, the English transcript always comes before the Spanish transcript. |
Uploading Your Transcript
You can add your transcript in the Audio-Video media editor. Once you've uploaded your file, you'll enter some information about the formatting. This helps Mandala process your transcript. After saving your edits, you'll see your transcript on the media's page. It may take a couple of hours for the transcript to process.
- Edit or create a media asset
- Learn more at Upload an Audio File, Upload a Video File, and Edit Your Media
- Click Transcript
The transcript area will open
- Click Choose file
The file browser for your operating system will open
- Open your transcript
- Make sure your file follows the formatting requirements above
The file browser will close
- Click Upload
You’ll see a confirmation message, and the transcript wizard open
- Don’t worry about the “empty timecode have been inserted” message; this won’t affect your final transcript
- Under “Timecodes” choose the unit delimiter
- This is the character you used to separate out sections in your transcript for readability
- If you followed the formatting example above, the unit delimiter is “Empty Line”
- Under "Languages," choose whether your transcript has one or multiple languages
- If your transcript has more than one language:
- Enter the “Language Delimiter”
- This is the character you used to separate out languages
- If you used the example above, choose Custom: /
- Select your languages in the order in which they appear
- Remember, you should keep the language order consistent in your transcript
- In the formatting example on this page, "Language 1" is English, "Language 2" is Spanish.
- Enter the “Language Delimiter”
- Check your processed transcript at the bottom of the section
- Click each language tab to make sure Mandala assigned the correct language
- Make sure the text is separated into shorter units
- Click Save at the bottom of the editor
The media asset with your transcript will appear
Transcript processing may take a few minutes