Instructional Technology Services can assist you in captioning digital materials. Recordings made with Echo360 or Zoom are captioned automatically with searchable transcriptions produced at the same time.
Both the captions and the transcripts can be edited as well. In Echo, you must find the recording and click on Edit Transcription. In Zoom, you can play the recording, pause the recording and find the transcription text to edit. Select it and edit away.
Echo360–
Captions and transcriptions are created once the recording has finished. Captions and transcriptions are not immediately available, for it takes more time to produce either of those, dependent on the length of the recording and what else is being processed on the server at the time.
Once completed, they are posted to the recording.
Viewing on Echo360-
Captions:
You should click on the CC icon to see the captions on the screen. You also have the option to change the size and location of the captions.
Transcriptions:
A transcription of the recording is also available once a viewer clicks on the transcription icon (shown below). The transcript can be searched as well, allowing a viewer to search for a term spoken which will immediately jump to the point(s) in the recording.
Viewing on Zoom-
Captions–
Clicking on the CC icon on the lower-right of the screen will turn on captions.
Transcriptions–
Within Zoom, transcriptions appear automatically when using the Zoom media player. You can search the transcript as well.
