Generate automatic captions and a transcript for your Microsoft Stream (Classic) videos


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:

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.

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.)

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.