So what we’re going to find is the company name in this case here XYZ, and we’re going to replace it with another name and make that name.

In this simple find and replace, we’re going to find a particular word, change it to another word, but we’re going to add a twist to that, and we’re going to make the second word in italics. And when I imported the transcription as an SRT file (using the same time stamps as the Camtasia SRT file), it left out all by about 5 seconds of audio, so that wasn’t a good option. The Word one needed a little editing the Camtasia one needed to be rewritten from scratch. Here’s what the transcription function in online Word had, followed by what Camtasia thought I’d said. I exported the narration to an MP3 file, then used the online version of Word to transcribe it to text and it was perfect, whereas the Camtasia version was unintelligible.)įurther to the audio issue: Yes, my headset microphone made the world of difference to the audio, but despite that, the speech to text conversion in Camtasia for the captioning was still awful. The words in the captions that Camtasia created bore NO resemblance to anything I’d said!! I’ll try again tomorrow with a different microphone Meantime, I wondered if it was Windows speech recognition that was at fault or Camtasia, and in my minimal testing I can say that it was Camtasia. (Aside: Despite training my voice for speech recognition as Camtasia suggests, my experiments using their Speech to Text function were abysmal. So I shut down Camtasia and restarted it and the Speech to Text option was now available. I downloaded and installed both, then check the Speech to Text settings in Camtasia. My Windows language settings were set to both English Australian and English US, but when I looked a bit further (click on the language name and select Options), I didn’t have the language pack for Australian English installed and the speech ‘pack’ for US English wasn’t installed either. Something someone said on a forum about Windows language settings led me to find the solution however, I tried several things, so I’m not sure exactly which one was the critical one. But there was a problem - the Speech to Text option was grayed out and unavailable. I used to use it for creating training videos years ago, but haven’t used it in a long while, so the new version is a just a little bit different… Anyhow, one of the features of Camtasia 2021 is that you can convert your audio narration to caption text, using their Speech to Text function (open the Captions option and click the cog wheel settings icon for it).

Camtasia 2018 log in