https://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/
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This specification defines WebVTT, the Web Video Text Tracks format. Its main use is for marking up external text track resources in connection with the HTML <track> element. WebVTT files provide captions or subtitles for video content, and also text video descriptions, chapters for content navigation, and more generally any form of metadata that is time-aligned with audio or video content. |
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WebVTT is a simple caption file basically
The main use for WebVTT files is captioning or subtitling video content. Here is a sample file that captions an interview:
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WEBVTT
00:11.000 --> 00:13.000
<v Roger Bingham>We are in New York City
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<v Roger Bingham>We’re actually at the Lucern Hotel, just down the street
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<v Roger Bingham>from the American Museum of Natural History
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<v Roger Bingham>And with me is Neil deGrasse Tyson
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<v Roger Bingham>Astrophysicist, Director of the Hayden Planetarium
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<v Roger Bingham>at the AMNH.
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<v Roger Bingham>Thank you for walking down here.
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<v Roger Bingham>And I want to do a follow-up on the last conversation we did.
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<v Roger Bingham>When we e-mailed—
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<v Neil deGrasse Tyson>Didn’t we talk about enough in that conversation?
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<v Roger Bingham>No! No no no no; 'cos 'cos obviously 'cos
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<v Neil deGrasse Tyson><i>Laughs</i>
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<v Roger Bingham>You know I’m so excited my glasses are falling off here. |
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