Flowplayer offers AI-driven speech to text transcriptions that automatically add the transcript as a vtt subtitle to the video and displays it in the player.
There are three ways to start transcribing videos.
Configure the Workspace settings to automatically start transcribing on video asset uploads.
Manually start transcription by clicking "View files" and then select transcription language for the video asset.
Using the API to start the transcription per video.
Manually starting transcriptions
Start by opening in the View Files dialog on the Video page
Select the language to be used for the transcription
If the transcription job successfully starts you should see a "Transcription in progress"
When completed the transcription will be available as a WebVTT text track.
Supported languages
Flowplayer can transcribe files in any of the following languages
Language
Code
Detect from Metadata*
follow-input
English
en
French
fr
German
de
Spanish
es
Swedish
sv
Arabic
ar
Armenian
hy-AM
Bulgarian
bg
Catalan
ca
Croatian
hr
Chinese (Cantonese)
yue-Hant-HK
Chinese (Mandarin)
cmn-Hans-CN
Czech
cs
Danish
da
Dutch
nl
Finnish
fi
Greek
el
Hebrew
he-IL
Hindi
hi
Hungarian
hu
Indonesian
id-ID
Italian
it
Japanese
ja
Korean
ko
Latvian
lv
Lithuanian
lt
Malay
ms-MY
Norwegian, Bokmål
nb-NO
Polish
pl
Portuguese
pt
Romanian
ro
Russian
ru
Slovak
sk
Slovenian
sl
Thai
th-TH
Turkish
tr-TR
Vietnamese
vi-VN
* Detect from metadata uses the language meta data on the input file's audio track to determine the language. If that is not possible it will default to English.