Core Topic: Captions and Transcripts

What Are Captions?

Captions are synchronized text for dialogue and important sounds in a video. They help:

Transcripts are full, time-stamped text versions of a video's audio. They benefit:

Subtitles translate spoken words into another language. Click the CC or Subtitles button in your media player to enable them.

Audio description adds narration that explains actions, scene changes, and text on screen, helping blind or low-vision viewers.

Live Captions: How to use live captions in Teams meetings
- Click the More actions (three dots) button.
- Select Language and speech.
- Choose Show live captions.
- To disable, choose Hide live captions.

Recording and Transcription
- Teams now prompts you to enable captions when recording. To record:
- Click More actions > Record and transcribe > Start recording.
- Confirm the spoken language.
- To stop, click Stop recording.

Using "Meet Now" to Pre-Record: How to record and caption with Meet Now
- Instructors can record with Meet Now. Captions are auto-added and editable in Microsoft Stream.

✅ Captions will show during your presentation.

YuJa auto-captions all uploaded videos. Captions appear shortly after processing. You can:

✅ Auto-captioning is enabled by default.