In Stream automatically generates a transcript to accompany every upload, livestream and screen recording added to the siteyou can have a transcript generated for your videos. You may also add secondary transcripts, called Subtitles, in order to have transcripts in other languages. The CC button may be turned on to view a certain transcript. While uploading, you may forgo adding either feature to your content.
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You can't autogenerate captions if you have already uploaded a caption file. You can't upload a caption file if you have selected the Autogenerate a caption file option. |
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University Policy: Public-facing video content must be captioned. Note: videos within your HuskyCT course are not public facing. |
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Continue below to learn how to add secondary transcripts.
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Generating or adding captions (transcript)
A transcript is generated automatically by default. When uploading Once you have a video in Stream, you have the choice of un-checking the box to skip a transcript generation. When un-checked, the option to upload your own transcript appears.
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simply visit the video in order to generate captions for it.
Log into office.com.
Click on the grid, or “waffle”, icon in the top left-hand corner.
Choose Stream. If needed, click on All apps to see the complete list of apps.
You may bookmark this page for easy access in the future.Under you “Recommended” video, you will see videos you have either uploaded or interacted it.
Click on your video that you would like to caption.
You can click on Created by me to make it easier to find your video.
Click on Video settings.
Click on Transcript and captions and then either Generate or Upload.
Adding Subtitles (secondary transcript)
Adding subtitles allows you to have transcripts that are in different languages; these subtitles will appear on top of the video. The subtitles need to have similar timestamp formatting as the original transcript. To find this formatting, download the original transcript and then edit the text to reflect the new language.
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Visit your video
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Navigate to your video on Stream.
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transcription by following the instructions above.
Download the caption file as a
.vtt.
On the video-viewing page, click on the ellipsis and choose Update video details.
Click on Download file in the Captions section.
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The downloaded file can be opened in Notepad, Notepad++, Word, or other text editing program. Look below for appropriate instructions
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6. Return to your web browser where you downloaded the original transcript and click on Upload a subtitle file.
7. First select the language of your new transcript, and then upload the newly created file.
8. Click Ok and then you are done.
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