Closed Captioning and Transcription

By default, Zoom should automatically caption your videos when uploaded to the cloud. If it doesn’t, you may need to check your settings to ensure auto-captioning is enabled.

1. Navigate to https://zoom.us/profile/setting
2. Search for Closed Captioning
3. Enable all the options for that setting.

Visit https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115004794983-Automatically-Transcribe-Cloud-Recordings- for more info on Zoom closed captioning.

1. Navigate and sign in to https://zoom.us/
2. In the navigation menu, click Recordings.
3. Click the name of the recorded meeting.
4. Click the play icon.
   The text of the transcript displays on the right-hand side of the video.
5. To edit the text, click on the pencil icon to the right of the block of text you want to edit, and then click into the text block itself.
6. Make any changes to the text, then click the check mark.
   The updated version of the text is displayed when you play the audio or video file.

1. Navigate to https://zoom.us/profile/setting
2. Search for Closed Captioning
3. Enable “Allow live transcription service to transcribe meeting automatically”

After enabling that option, launch your Zoom meeting. You will then have a “Live Transcript” button at the bottom of your Zoom window.

Click the button, then choose Enable Auto-Transcription.

Note: You may need to update your Zoom if you find it is crashing the application when enabling live transcripts.

1. Navigate https://mediasite.algonquincollege.com/mediasite/mymediasite
2. Select the video you would like to add captions to.
3. Click Edit Details.
4. Navigate to the Delivery Tab.
5. Enable Audio Transcriptions.
6. Choose a provider for Captioning.
   
7. Select Academic Automatic Captions
8. Click Save to submit the audio track for captioning.

Note: This may take a small amount of time to process depending on the length of your video.

Have you found the automatic closed captions are close, but not perfect? To edit the captions that were automatically generated, follow these steps:

1. Navigate https://mediasite.algonquincollege.com/mediasite/mymediasite
2. Select the video you would like to add captions to.
3. Click Edit Captions on the right side menu.

You’ll be entered into the Caption editor. (Click the image below to enlarge):

1. Use the timeline to play the video and watch the captions to spot any incorrect words. Pause the video and click on the box to edit those captions.
2. Use the caption list on the left to edit, remove or quickly view the video captions.
3. Use the Add option to add your own captions at the video time position.

One you have finished your edits, click save to update the captions.