kind property
Gets the type or category of the timed text track associated with a TextTrack object.
This property is read-only.
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Syntax
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trackKind = object.kind |
Property values
Type: string
A keyword that describes the type of text content the track represents.
Standards information
Remarks
The keywords can be one of the following:
- subtitles - A transcription or translation of the audio dialog.
- captions - A transcription or translation of the dialog, sound effects, musical cues, or other audio information.
- descriptions - Textual descriptions of the video component, intended for audio synthesis, such as text-to-speech conversion, when the video component is not viewable by the user.
- chapters - Chapter titles to be used for navigating the video content.
- metadata - Information available to be used from script, not displayed in the player or browser.
Note To create timed text files in both Web Video Text Track (WebVTT) and Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) formats, see HTML5 Video Caption Maker on the Windows Internet Explorer test drive site.
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