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title: "Microsoft Stream - Transcripts and Subtitles"
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In Stream you can have a transcript generated for your videos. You may also add secondary transcripts, called Subtitles, in order to have transcripts in other languages. The CC button may be turned on to view a certain transcript.
> ℹ️ You can't autogenerate captions if you have already uploaded a caption file.
> ✅ University Policy: Public-facing video content must be captioned. Note: videos within your HuskyCT course are not public facing.
## Turning on Captions
To view captions (a certain transcript), simply click on the CC button in the video window.
Continue below to learn how to add secondary transcripts.
## Generating or adding captions (transcript)
Once you have a video in Stream, simply visit the video in order to generate captions for it.
1. Log into [s.uconn.edu/365](http://s.uconn.edu/365).
2. Click on the **grid, or “waffle”, icon **in the top left-hand corner.
3. Choose **Stream**. If needed, click on **All apps** to see the complete list of apps.
You may bookmark this page for easy access in the future.
4. Under you “Recommended” video, you will see videos you have either uploaded or interacted it.
5. Click on your video that you would like to caption.
You can click on **Created by me** to make it easier to find your video.
6. Click on **Video settings**.
7. Click on **Transcript and captions** and then either **Generate** or **Upload**.
## Download captions in order to alter
You may download the transcript, edit it, and reupload it. At this time you may also edit it into another language in order to have multi-language captions. The subtitles need to have similar timestamp formatting as the original transcript. To find this formatting, download the original transcript and then edit the text to reflect the new language.
1. Visit your video transcription by following the instructions above.
2. Download the caption file as a `.vtt`.
3. The downloaded file can be opened in Notepad, Notepad++, Word, or other text editing program. Look below for appropriate instructions
Notepad instructions
1. Find your downloaded `.vtt` transcript file.
2. Right-click on the file and choose **Open with **and choose Notepad from the list.
3. Replace the transcript text with your desired language. You may edit the timecodes to change how long the text appears on screen, but be careful that captions do not overlap.
4. When ready, save the file by clicking on **File** → **Save** or by using the keyboard shortcut **Ctrl** + **S**.
Word instructions
1. Find your downloaded `.vtt` transcript file.
2. Right-click on the file and choose **Open with **and choose Word from the list.
3. The default formatting option, **Unicode UTF-8 **will work for this.
4. Replace the transcript text with your desired language. You may edit the timecodes to change how long the text appears on screen, but be careful that captions do not overlap.
5. When ready, save the file by clicking on the save icon (floppy disk icon). Click **Yes** on the popup to maintain the formatting and `.vtt` file extension.
6. Return to your web browser where you downloaded the original transcript and click on **Upload**.
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