Mediasite Captioning

Users can add Mediasite Captioning to recorded videos by selecting a video, then clicking “Edit Details”.

The list of options available after selecting a presentation in MyMediasite. This list includes the

From there, go to the “Delivery” tab and check the “Audio Transcriptions” box.

A view of the

Once that box is checked, select “Choose Provider for Captioning” and then select the “Mediasite Captioning” profile.

A list of the captioning providers found after selecting

Once selected, the Mediasite Captioning profile will default to “auto-detect” for the language of the captions based on the audio found in the video. However, users can also choose from a total of 57 different languages, including English, Spanish, French, and more. Once you have selected a language from the list, click "Save".

A view of the fully set up

Here is the current list of supported languages:

Afrikaans
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Belarusian
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Macedonian
Malay
Maori
Marathi
Nepali
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Tagalog
Tamil
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
Welsh

Automatically generated captions may contain errors. Errors can be fixed using the Mediasite caption editor. Instructions for using the caption editor can be found on the DIY Captioning page on our website.

If there is a student in your course who requires accommodations, please visit the Requesting Captioning page on our website for instructions on how to submit an accommodation request through the DRC. The VCS Captioning team will work in-house and with outside vendors to have any required videos for those courses professionally captioned with human review.