Captions (or Closed Captioning, CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information.
Both are typically used as a transcription of the audio portion of a program as it occurs (either verbatim or in edited form), sometimes including descriptions of non-speech elements.
A Transcript is the written audio of a video and is normally embedded below the video or on the same webpage to help search engines to crawl the text and index it for search engines to find the content.
Pro Tip: If you use the Facebook captions for instance they only show up when you’re playing the video without audio (very cool, but only works on Facebook, not any other source).
Both Captions and Transcripts are highly recommended for any video uploads on websites and YouTube.
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