Enabling Audio Transcriptions

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This guide explains how to enable machine-generated audio transcriptions (captions) for your videos uploaded to MyMediasite.

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1. Enabling Audio Transcriptions

The following steps will show you how to turn this feature on for an existing video. Please note that the captioning process is not instantaneous and may take some time to complete after you save the setting, depending on the length of your video.

  1. Log into Canvas and access MyMediasite from your course navigation menu.

  2. From your list of presentations, find the video you wish to add captions to and click on its title.

  3. On the presentation's summary page, click the Edit Details button located below the video preview.

  4. Navigate to the Delivery tab.

  5. Check the box next to Audio Transcriptions

  6. A new dropdown menu will appear. For the provider, ensure you select "Mediasite captioning powered by Vidable."

  7. Click the Save button.

Once the process is complete, your video will have a closed captioning (CC) track available to viewers.

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Article ID: 158906
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Wed 10/15/25 2:57 PM