The Whiting School of Engineering provides faculty members several tools to record lectures and produce transcripts of those recordings for students. Captioning lectures is an inclusive measure for presenting course content to students.
Note: Unedited machine-generated captions should not be used in courses with an identified accommodation need. In these cases please work with Disability Services and the Help Desk to process Professional/Human captions to ensure the highest degree of accuracy.
Captioning for Course Videos in Panopto
Videos uploaded to your course's Panopto folder will have Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) captions generated once the video finishes uploading and processing.
If you upload videos to My Folder instead you will need to enable ASR caption generation before uploading. You should only need to do this once:
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Open settings by selecting the three-dots, and then click on Settings in the drop down menu.
- Navigate to the settings tab and selecting Automatic Machine Captions under the Captions section.
Editing Captions in Panopto
To edit captions for a Panopto video, you’ll use the Panopto video editor. First, open your Canvas course and go to the Panopto Video tab to find the video you want to edit, then follow the steps below.
- Open the video editor by clicking the Edit button while hovering over the video thumbnail.
- In the editing page, click the Captions tab (1 in image below).
- Click on the caption line you wish to edit, then update the text as you want it to appear (2 in image).
- Click on the next caption line (3 in the image), which will temporarily save your edits to the previous line. When you're finished editing:
- Click the Apply button (4 in the image) to save your changes and make them visible to students, or
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Click Revert (5 in the image) to discard your changes.
If there are repeated errors (such as replacing one word with another repeatedly) there is also a find and replace tool you can use. For more information about this and caption editing generally, please see this Panopto support document: How to Edit or Delete Captions.
Audio Transcripts in Zoom Recordings
Audio transcripts for Zoom cloud recordings are enabled by default and locked by WSE Zoom administrators, so you do not need to adjust this setting in your Zoom account. When you record to the cloud, an audio transcript will be generated automatically. If you do not see a transcript for a specific recording, please contact support at CMTShelp@jhu.edu.
Live machine-generated transcriptions are also available in Zoom meetings. For more information, see our Live Transcription for Meetings article.
Editing Transcripts of Zoom Recordings
Ensure that your lecture has been recorded to the cloud. More information about recording to the cloud can be found in our Zoom Cloud Recordings article.
- Navigate to your recording from the email link generated by Zoom or by logging into the WSE Zoom portal in a web browser and going to the Recordings & Transcripts page.
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Select the Cloud recordings tab at the top.
- Select the name of the recording that is associated with a transcript you wish to edit.
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Select Watch Highlights button under the recording thumbnail.
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To start editing, utilize the Audio Transcript panel on the right. Select the phrase you wish to edit and select the pencil icon (
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- Make any required changes to the text. When finished making changes, click the blue check mark button (
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- The updated version of the text is displayed when you play the audio or video file.
Need further assistance?
Contact our team by emailing CMTShelp@jhu.edu.