Add Captions

Summary

Panopto allows you to add and edit machine-generated captions to your videos.

Add ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) Generated Captions to a video

Steps to Automatic Speech Recognition (ASP) genarated captions to a video:

Panopto provides machine-generated captions for your videos.  ASR caption may take from 8 hours to a day depending on the length of your video; please note, that the captions are not 100% accurate.  

  1. For the video you wish to add in caption, click on "Edit". 
  2. Under "Captions", select "Import automatic captions". 

  3. You may notice that the captions might not be accurate. Playback the video and edit any errors in the closed captions. Click Apply to save changes. 
  4. Click on "Publish" to make the video available to viewers, or go to Settings and schedule the publish date.

 

To download, upload or delete captions:

  1. Go to Setting > Captions and select "Download file".


  2. To edit this downloaded .txt file, open using Notepad and edit the text accordingly based on the timestamp provided. Save your file as the same extension e.g. "sample.ashx".

  3. Re-upload the file again by selecting "Browse..." and click "Upload Captions".  



  4. Once the processing is done, you will be able to see the caption on your video.
  5. In case you would like to remove the close captions generated, go to Settings > Captions > "Delete Captions".

 

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