Automatic, Machine-generated, Captions

Believe your video content is already captioned? Check again!

To check your videos, enable captioning and watch the words that are displayed as your video plays.
Many services provide "automatic" machine-generated captioning, more details are found in the information on this page.
- *Note: Auto-captions must be verified for accuracy and are not sufficient for an accommodation request.
If there are mistakes, correct the captions or request captioning from one of the UArizona captioning vendors.
Use our Captioning Decision Guide to determine if auto-captions will work for your content.

Live Auto Transcription *Not a substitute for true professional captions/ disability accommodations for communication access.*
- As part of Arizona's Zoom non-HIPAA platform, Zoom meeting hosts can now enable a machine-generated transcript for their meetings for free:
  - Select the "Live Transcript" option in the zoom meeting toolbar.
  - Choose the "Enable Auto-Transcription" under the Live Transcript section of the pop-up menu.
  - Once enabled, users can turn the live transcript on/off for their own view.
3Play Media
Maestra (alternate languages, free)
Rev.com Zoom Live Captions
Verbit Live Room

Microsoft Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology service generates Teams meeting captions

PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 can transcribe your words as you present and display them on-screen as captions in the same language you are speaking

You can now enable Live Caption in any Chrome browser deployment. Find the Live Caption setting under Chrome > Settings > Advanced > Accessibility > Live Caption.
- The audio does not need to be in a video. The option to customize the caption size and appearance is available as well.
- According to Google, this will even work when the content is muted or being played offline.

**Editing is a must to ensure accuracy if you are using these auto-generated options.

Panopto:
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) which includes instructions for correcting captions.
- The "Import automatic captions" option appears in the Panopto editor when processing of the video is complete. Typically, videos under an hour will have the ASR generated captions within 8 hours of uploading a video. For videos over 1 hour in length it could take 1 day.
Zoom:
- Recording your Zoom meetings to the cloud will automatically create a machine-generated transcript.
YouTube
- YouTube auto-captions and instructions for editing the captions.
Microsoft Stream
- Generate automatic captions and a transcript for your MS Stream videos
- Add subtitles or captions to your MS Stream video
Rev.com
- Upload your video and receive an auto-generated transcript or caption file.