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Is there anyway to embed close captioning to audio-only files? (e.g. podcast)

5 pointsby mofosyneover 5 years ago
Been searching google for such features. But seems like it doesn&#x27;t exist.<p>I am surprised podcast apps don&#x27;t support closed captioning of podcast audio. Plus such features are also useful for music files for lyrics.<p>It would help those who are hard of hearing... also it would make podcast easier to search and index as well!

4 comments

detaroover 5 years ago
There are MP3 metadata extensions to embed timestamped &quot;lyrics&quot;, but I don&#x27;t know if any podcast player supports those.
shaknaover 5 years ago
The HTML audio tag is quite limited, hence a million solutions to the problem.<p>However the video tag supports WebVTT subtitles (and plain audio tracks) which is quite close to SRT, so it should be possible without any kind of proprietary&#x2F;custom solution.
2038ADover 5 years ago
It should be possible to create an MKV file like this but I don&#x27;t know what media player support is like. If it doesn&#x27;t work then I guess you&#x27;re stuck with the stupidly common dummy video thing (where the video content is just black or a single image like the album cover).<p>I seem to remember old iPods having a feature where you could switch to the lyrics but it wasn&#x27;t in time with the song.
mofosyneover 5 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iandevlin.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;html5&#x2F;webvtt-and-audio&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;iandevlin.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;html5&#x2F;webvtt-and-audio&#x2F;</a>