Camtasia Lecture Recording With Captioning

Camtasia – Advanced Features

Purdue University Calumet

Office of Instructional Technology

Last Revised – 7/3/13

Adding Captions to a Lecture

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Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 2

Setting Up Camtasia for Speech Recognition ............................................................................................... 2

Adding words to Speech Recognition Dictionary ...................................................................................... 6

Recording a Lecture with Captioning ............................................................................................................ 9

Recording a single PowerPoint presentation ............................................................................................ 9

Recording multiple activities on your computer screen ......................................................................... 10

Editing a Lecture to Add Captions ............................................................................................................... 11

Producing a Recorded Lecture with Captioning ......................................................................................... 13

Uploading a Recorded Lecture with Captioning to Blackboard .................................................................. 16


Introduction Camtasia offers the ability to automatically create captions from your recording. Camtasia uses

a feature of Windows called Speech Recognition that listens to the audio and translates it to

text. In order for this feature to work, you must perform some initial setup, which is explained

in the next section of this guide, “Setting Up Camtasia for Speech Recognition”. The steps in

this section only need to be performed once. If you have already setup Speech Recognition on

your computer, you may skip to “Finishing Recording” on page 11 of this guide.

Setting Up Camtasia for Speech Recognition

Warning: Make sure that you have your microphone or headset plugged into the computer.

Otherwise, you will not be able to perform the steps in this guide.

1. Open Camtasia Studio.

2. Click Tools, move the mouse over Speech…, and select Improve speech to text….


3. On the Tips for Generating Accurate Speech-to-text Captions window that appears,

under Set up your microphone, click Start the audio setup wizard.

4. On the Set up Speech Recognition window, select what type of microphone you have.

Most likely, you will have either a Headset Microphone or a Desktop Microphone. The

screen provides examples of each. Click Next after making your selection.

5. Click Next on the next screen after reading the instructions.

6. On the next screen, speak the words on the screen, and click Next.


7. Click Finish on the next screen to end the wizard.

8. You will be returned to the Tips for Generating Accurate Speech-to-text Captions

window. Under Train your computer to understand your voice, click Start voice

training.

9. On the Speech Recognition Voice Training window that appears, read the instructions

and click Next.

Note: Make sure you are in a quiet area for this portion of the guide. Any noises besides your

voice will reduce speech recognition accuracy.

10. You be required to speak several sentences of text. As you speak each sentence or

portion of sentence, the program will advance to the next. When you reach the end,

the screen will read Speech Recognition Training is complete. Click Next.


11. On the Share Speech Data with Microsoft screen, click Don’t Send.

12. You will be returned to the Tips for Generating Accurate Speech-to-text Captions

window. Basic speech recognition is now complete. If you do not need to add specific

words to the dictionary, click OK and continue to the “Recording a Lecture” section on

page 9 of this guide. Otherwise, continue to the “Adding words to the Speech

Recognition Dictionary” section on page 6 of this guide.


Adding words to Speech Recognition Dictionary

1. On the Tips for Generating Accurate Speech-to-text Captions window, under Add

words to speech recognition dictionary, click Start adding words to the dictionary.

2. On the Speech Dictionary window that appears, click Add a New Word.

3. On the next screen, type the word you would like to add to the dictionary in the box

labeled Word or Expression. For this guide, we will be adding the word “Camtasia”.

Click Next after you have typed your word.


4. Under Pronunciation, check the box labeled Record a pronunciation upon Finish.

5. Under Capitalization, choose either This word is always capitalized or This word is

sometimes capitalized.

6. Click Finish.

7. Under Record a pronunciation, click Record when you are ready to speak your word.


8. After you have spoken your word, the screen will change to indicate that the recording

was successful. Click Listen to listen to the recording and ensure that you have spoken

the word clearly. You may repeat step 7 as many times as necessary to record your

word.

9. If you have more words to record, leave the checkbox labeled I want to make more

modifications to the Speech Dictionary upon Finish checked. Otherwise, uncheck the

check box.

10. Click Finish. If you left the box checked in the previous step, repeat steps 2-9.

11. Click OK and continue to the “Recording a Lecture with Captioning” section on page 9 of

this guide.


Recording a Lecture with Captioning Camtasia can record either a single PowerPoint presentation or multiple activities on

your computer screen.

Recording a single PowerPoint presentation

1. Follow the recording process in the “Recording a single PowerPoint presentation”

section of the guide “Recording and Uploading a Lecture” through step 10, and then

perform the following steps.

2. To edit your lecture and add quiz questions, click OK on the window that appears.

3. Continue to the “Editing a Lecture to Add Captions” section on page 11 of this guide.


Recording multiple activities on your computer screen 1. Follow the recording process in the “Recording multiple activities on your computer

screen” section of the guide “Recording and Uploading a Lecture” through step 7, and

then perform the following steps.

2. A preview window will appear showing your recording. Click Save and Edit.

3. A window will appear asking where you would like to save the recording. The default

save location is C:\Users\Documents\{your username}\Camtasia Studio. Click Save.

Please note that this is not the video, which will be created in the following steps.

4. Continue to the “Editing a Lecture to Add Captions” section on page 11 of this guide.


Editing a Lecture to Add Captions 1. Click Captions on the toolbar in the middle of the screen.

Note: If you don’t see the Captions button, click More and select Captions.

2. On the Captions toolbar, click Speech-to-text….

3. On the Speech-to-Text window that appears, click Entire Timeline to create captions for

the entire video.


4. On the new window that appears, click Continue.

Note: Optionally, you may check the box labeled Do not show this again. If you do, skip

step 4 when referencing this guide in the future.

5. A small progress window will appear and process the audio. After it finishes, the

captions will appear in the upper left area of the screen. Review the generated captions

and make any necessary changes. To do so, click inside the box with the caption you

want to modify and make any changes.

Note: Make sure the ADA compliant button is always blue. This ensures that the font

style, size, and color are ADA compliant. If the button ever changes to gray, click it to

return to ADA compliant settings.

6. Continue to the “Producing a Recorded Lecture with Captioning” section on page 13 of

this guide.


Producing a Recorded Lecture with Captioning

Note: Producing a video using the following steps will “burn” the captions onto the video. This

means that the captions will be a part of the video itself and cannot be turned off.

1. On the Production Wizard window that appears, click the drop down box and select

either MP4 Only (up to 480p) or MP4 Only (up to 720p). MP4 Only (up to 720p) may

produce a higher quality file, but also may be much larger in size. If the final file is too

large you may encounter difficulty uploading it to your course.

2. Under File name and folder, enter a Production name. This will be the title of the video.


3. By default, Camtasia will save the project in

C:\Users\{your username}\Documents\Camtasia Studio\{Production name}. To

change the save location, click the folder icon next to the current location.

Note: If you changed the save location for the recording file earlier in the guide, it is

recommended that you change to the same location here.

4. Click Finish.

5. The video will render. When it completes, the Production Results window will appear.

Click Finish.


6. In the location where you chose to save the files, you should now see the recording file

from before and a new folder that contains the finished lecture video that you will

upload to Blackboard.

Note: As mentioned at the beginning of this section, the video created will contain

permanent captions that cannot be turned off.

7. Continue to the “Uploading a Recorded Lecture with Captioning to Blackboard” section

on page 16 of this guide.


Uploading a Recorded Lecture with Captioning to

Blackboard

1. Enter the course you where you would like to add your media.

2. In a content area, hover your mouse over Tools and select Kaltura Media.

3. Provide a name for the video (e.g. Chapter one video).

4. Click on Add Media to upload your video.


5. Under the upload tab, click on Browse.

6. Select the media you would like to add and then click Upload. Note: This may take a moment depending on the file size and your internet speed.

7. Once the video has uploaded, click Next.

8. For your video’s title, leave it the same and click Next.

9. Your uploaded video will appear in the text editor.

10. Once you have chosen your options for this video, click Submit.