Why Add Captions?
The primary purpose of captions and transcripts is to provide accessibility for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. 48 million Americans experience hearing loss, and closed captions are the best way to make media content accessible.
University Captioning Requirements
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Benefits of captions
How to Caption Video & Meeting Recordings
How to Add Captions to Live Meetings
Benefits of Captions
Teaching & Learning
- Increase comprehension in for all viewers including those for those who are not native speakers.
- Provides viewing flexibility in environments where background noise interferes with listening.
- Transcripts can be used as study guides or translated to other languages for multilingual captions.
Marketing and Communication
Captions improve SEO (Search Engine Optimization) by giving search engines content to crawl. The transcript text is the only way search engines can correctly index a video.
How to Caption Video & Meeting Recordings
All systems listed provide auto-generated captions, which can be edited to improve accuracy
| System |
Features |
How to |
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Canvas Studio
(Canvas Users)
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- Auto-generated captions can be enabled.
- Existing caption files can be uploaded for captioning.
- Auto-generated captions can be edited/downloaded.
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Add captions to Studio media |
Microsoft Stream
(All users) |
- Auto-generate captions can requested.
- Auto-generated captions can be edited/downloaded.
- Existing caption files can be uploaded.
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Generate captions for Stream videos |
| Panopto |
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) generated captions are automatically added to Panopto videos.
- Creators can edit Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) captions.
- Creators can download captions as a text file.
- Panopto supports live captioning.
- Creators can change the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) captioning language to the language of their choice for a folder in Panopto.
Note: This feature does not translate videos via captioning. Only one language may be applied per folder.
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Webex
(All users) |
- Auto-generated generated transcripts are added meeting recordings and can be edited.
- Transcripts can be edited/downloaded through the ecu.webex.com portal.
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Edit Webex recording transcripts |
How to Add Captions to Live Meetings
Live meeting captions using these tools will not be 100% accurate.
| System |
Features |
How to |
Microsoft Teams
(All users) |
- Organizers do not need to take action to provide live captions.
- Captions are only available in English.
- Live captions are not saved with recordings.
- Recordings are stored in Stream, which can be used to auto-generate editable captions.
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Enable Teams Meeting live captions
Note: Any participant can enable live captions for their meeting experience.
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Webex
(Faculty, staff) |
- Per request, the Webex assistant can be enabled in for your account to provide live meeting captions.
- Host/Co-host must enable the Webex Assistant to allow participants to use live captions.
- All post meeting recordings are automatically captioned, and captions can be edited.
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Request the Webex Assistant
Enable Webex Assistant (Hosts/Co-hosts)
Show live Webex captions (All)
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