Download transcript or subtitles of edited recording

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After editing your media, you can download the transcription or subtitles that reflects all of the edits you’ve made, including cuts, rearrangements, and text corrections, as well as the recording's timestamps.

You can also download the transcript of the full recording, without any edits.

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Step by step

  1. Log in to your Riverside account.
  2. Open a recording in the editor or upload an external file to start editing.
  1. After making the desired changes, at the top of the transcript, click ••• [the three dots].
  2. On the menu, click Download transcript or Download subtitles.
    The Download panel opens.
  3. Adjust the settings for your file:
    • If you clicked Download transcript:
      • Include filler words: toggle-on.svg  Toggled on by default. 
        To leave filler words like “um” and “uh” out of the file, toggle-off-grey_36x24.svg toggle off.
      • Include cut content: toggle-off-grey_36x24.svg Toggled off by default. 
        To keep the text you cut in the editor,toggle-on.svg toggle it on.
    • If you clicked Download subtitles:
      • Max characters per line: Sets the length of each subtitle line. The default is 42 and the minimum is 10.
      • Max lines per card: Sets how many lines appear on screen at once. The default is 2 and the minimum is 1.
      • Include filler words: toggle-on.svg  Toggled on by default. 
        To leave filler words like “um” and “uh” out of the file, toggle-off-grey_36x24.svg toggle off.
  4. Click Download transcript. 

Icon.svg Good to know

  • Transcriptions are not generated for audio played from a screen share, files played on the Media Board, or footage uploaded directly to the editor.
  • Your transcript settings are saved and apply to your next download in the same studio.
  • Pauses and muted sections do not appear in the file.
  • Cut text appears between tildes, for example: ~this is a test~.

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