Create streaming video with captions, subtitles, and audio tracks using AWS AI services

This course provides an explanation of how to create a workflow, to automate the generation of captions, alternate language subtitles and alternate language audio tracks using Amazon’s AI Services: Amazon Transcribe, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Polly. And you can complete the companion self-paced lab to create streaming video with captions, subtitles, and audio tracks generated by AWS AI services.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for anyone that want to learn how use AWS AI services to automate global video captioning, subtitling, and audio tracks for a streaming video.

Course Objectives

At the completion of this course, you will be able to explain the context, business use cases, and procedures for how to:

• Generate a transcript of a video using Amazon Transcribe.
• Translate the transcript into an alternate language using Amazon Translate.
• Transform the alternate language transcript into alternate language audio using Amazon Polly.
• Construct an Apple HLS Stack using AWS MediaConvert.
• Validate that audio and captions/subtitles work as intended within a video player.

Prerequisites

• None

Delivery Method

• This course is delivered through digital training.

Duration

• 30 minutes

Course Outline

This course covers the following topics:

• Create closed captions using Amazon Transcribe
  • Why do I need captions?
  • Turn the transcript into captions
• Create alternate language subtitles using Amazon Translate
  • Why do I need alternate language subtitles?
  • Turn the translations into subtitles
• Create alternate language audio tracks using Amazon Polly
  • Why text-to-speech?
  • Right-size text to speech
• Create streaming video using AWS Elemental MediaConvert
  • Why streaming video?
• Automate the process
  • From prototype to automation
  • Create a better transcript
  • Create a better translation
  • Create a better audio track