All video resources provided by Mines or linked to from Mines courses must at a minimum have automatically generated captions available. These captions are likely to include errors, and there may be numerous errors in video with poor audio quality. Automatic captions are not sufficient to meet accessibility requirements but are a good first step in providing better access for all.
There are several free sources of automatically generated captions for uploaded videos and live meetings or presentation.
Uploaded Videos
YouTube
Use automatic captioning in YouTube
Mines community members have access to YouTube with their Mines-managed Google accounts. Whether you are using a mines.edu YouTube account or a department account you created with Google, you should use YouTube to create and edit captions for videos that you have uploaded or can edit in YouTube Studio.
Microsoft Stream on Sharepoint
View, edit, and manage video transcripts and captions in Microsoft Stream
All Mines community members have access to Microsoft Stream on Sharepoint with their Mines accounts. Once you have used Microsoft Stream to create captions, you can leave the captioned video there or download the captions as a WebVTT file to upload elsewhere.
Live meetings and presentations
Google Slides
Present slide with captions
To use Google Slides, log in to Google Slides or Drive with your Mines email and password.
Microsoft Teams
Use live captions in a Teams meeting
Teams provides an option for automatically generated captions for meetings, which includes speaker attribution. You can also separately turn on transcription if you would like to save an automatically generated transcript after the meeting.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Use real time automatic captions or subtitles in PowerPoint
When presenting with PowerPoint on Windows 10 or later, you can choose to provide automatically generated captions that display below your slides.
Zoom
Manage automated captions in Zoom
Zoom provides an option to automatically generate live captions, which can also be saved as a live transcript of the Zoom meeting.