Other Video Captions Tools

Pre-Recorded Videos 

Camtasia is a powerful and easy to use screen recording and video editing tool that is available to CSUN faculty and staff. Visit CSUN Camtasia page. 

Record it All: Use Camtasia's powerful screen recorder to capture anything on your screen. You can also import videos, music, and photos to customize your videos.

Create Powerful Videos: Edit and enhance your videos with Camtasia’s powerful editor, themes, animated backgrounds, graphics, callouts, and more.

Engage Your Audience: Produce interactive videos and then share videos that your viewers can watch anywhere, anytime.

Captions: Watch this video on how to Manually Add Captions to a Video.

Speech-To-Text Captions: Watch this video on how to use Speech-To-Text. This feature is only available for Windows users.

Please note: Auto-captions are often machine-generated captions with poor quality in which content is not accurately communicated to people who depend on captions. Auto-captions should be corrected for accuracy and provide equal access for everyone.

Watch this video on how to download and install Camtasia

Live Captioning

This feature is available on Chrome browser. It will not work with Mac Safari browser.

Here are the steps to turn on Google Slides captions:

1. Make sure your microphone is on and working.
2. Open a blank Google Slide presentation.
3. Select Present to go into presentation mode.
4. Select CC for Captions
5. Position and size of the text can also be changed on the CC dropdown menu.

If you present slides over video conferencing software (such as Zoom), captions show up on the shared screen. To set expectations for your students, it's a good idea to tell them that captions are from Google Slides and that only the speaker's voice is captioned.

Note: Unfortunately, you can’t save or download the transcript.

For instructions on the Present Slides with Captions page.

Live Captioning

Web-based version: PowerPoint for the web and Microsoft Office 365 subscription has built-in automated live captions or subtitles. PowerPoint can transcribe what a person is saying and display them as captions. Note: Unfortunately, you can’t save or download the transcript.

• Make sure your microphone is on and working.
• Visit Present with real-time, automatic captions or subtitles in PowerPoint for instructions on how to set up on-screen captions in your slides.
• Watch video Live Captions & Subtitles.

Windows Desktop version: All other versions will need to download the Presentation Translator add-in automatic captioning for PowerPoint (not available for Mac users). This add-in will let you save the transcript of your presentation. For instructions, visit Presentation Translator for PowerPoint help and FAQs. Watch the video on How Presentation Translator Works.

1. Make sure your microphone is on and working.
2. Open a blank PowerPoint presentation.
3. Select the Slide Show tab.
4. Select Start Subtitles.
5. Fill out the languages and select Additional Settings link
6. The Add instructional slide contains the QR Code that lets attendees see the captions on their own devices.
7. Select Start Subtitles.
8. When you are done with the presentation you will see a box at the bottom of the screen. At the top right of that box you will see 3 dotted icon.
9. Select the 3 dotted icon.
10. Select Save Transcript. You will be prompted to save the file and it will be saved as a .txt file.

Please note: Auto-captions are often machine-generated captions with poor quality in which content is not accurately communicated to people who depend on captions. Auto-captions should be corrected for accuracy and provide equal access for everyone.