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Introduction to Managing Captions and Transcripts in Microsoft Stream

Microsoft Stream is an Enterprise Video service where people in your organization can upload, view, and shared videos securely.聽 You can share recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, training sessions, or other videos that aid your team’s collaboration.

Captions and transcripts ensure students can access information in the video, regardless of ability.

The resources on this page consist of a video tutorial and text directions for generating聽 and editing automatic captions in Microsoft Stream.

The Basics of Managing Captions and Transcripts in Microsoft Stream

  1. 颁濒颈肠办听My Content聽and find the video you are trying to caption (the videos are all labeled聽Meeting With鈥β�use the date and duration to distinguish similar videos).
  2. From聽My Content,聽肠濒颈肠办听Update Video Details聽(it is a pencil button on the right end of the video row).
    1. If you have opened the video, the聽Update Video Details聽can be found by聽肠濒颈肠办颈苍驳听on the three dots to the right of the听尝颈办别听button.
  3. On the聽Video Details聽page go to the聽Video Language聽drop-down menu and聽蝉别濒别肠迟听English.
    1. This should automatically聽肠丑别肠办听the Autogenerate a caption file聽box. If the box is not checked, you will have to do it manually.
  4. 颁濒颈肠办听础辫辫濒测听at the top of the screen to save the changes.
    1. It may take a few minutes for the captions to load, but your video will now play with captions.
  5. 颁濒颈肠办听Edit Transcript聽(it is the pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the transcript window.
    1. Note: editing the transcript will also edit the captions. You will have to refresh the page to see the change.

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