Important terminology note: The earlier version of Stream will now be known as Microsoft Stream (Classic) https://web.microsoftstream.com/ and the new version will be referred to as Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) https://stream.office.com to clarify the differences moving forward.
This article only applies to content in Stream (Classic). By default this includes all Teams meeting recordings made before Monday 27th June 2022.
If a video's Language field is set to a supported language, Stream can automatically generate captions using Automatic Speech Recognition technology.
Captions are used in three ways:
- When watching a video, you can select to see captions at the bottom of the video.
- Captions are concatenated to form a transcript, which is available in the transcript window.
- Captions are indexed, so you can go directly to a specific location in a video by searching using deep search.
Enable auto-generated captions for your video
Upload a video for which you want to enable auto-generated captions. If the video is already uploaded, go to the Edit video page.
In the Details section, select a supported language.
On the Options tab, set Auto-generate captions to On. (Note: This setting won't be available if you have selected a non-supported language.)
Stream will automatically begin generating captions.
Upload a custom caption file
To upload a caption file, follow the steps in Add subtitles and captions.
Note
You can't upload a caption file if you have set Autogenerate captions to On. To upload a caption file, set this to Off.
Edit captions
You can edit auto-generated and uploaded captions using the transcript window, or by downloading the files from the Edit video page as described in Add subtitles and captions.
Automatic captions take time to create
It typically takes 1-2x the video's duration, so for example, for a one hour video, expect to wait approximately two hours to finish processing.