Captions and transcripts

YuJa automatically generates English-language captions and an accompanying transcript for newly uploaded videos. Captions can also be generated for existing YuJa videos, including those transferred from Echo360.

Generated content is not always accurate or clear and both captions and transcripts can be edited through the YuJa Media Library (i.e. not from within Brightspace). Advanced options (e.g. to change language) are also available through the Media Library settings and at certain steps in the upload and embed process.

Employing captions and informing students of their existence can support a higher degree of video content accessibility. Learn more about how Video Captions Benefit Everyone.

What are captions and transcripts?

Captions appear on screen, are synchronized to audio, and exist only within the video player. YuJa’s captions are “closed” and labeled “CC”, which means their visibility can be toggled on or off.

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The closed caption toggle on the YuJa player.

A transcript is the same word-for-word content but is available separately as text. In YuJa, the automatically generated captions will be identical to the transcript.

Automatic caption and transcript generation

Captions and a transcript are automatically generated after recording or uploading a video with YuJa, but the result will not appear immediately (potentially beyond an uploaded video’s normal processing period).

A message will indicate that captions are still being processed when a recently uploaded video first plays.

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Captions will not be immediately available until processing is complete.

The warning will disappear once processing is complete and the CC button will become clickable the next time the video loads and is played.

Editing captions, changing their language, and making other adjustments cannot be done through the embedded video player and must be accomplished while editing the video through the Media Library.

Enable captions and access a transcript while viewing

Toggle captions

Captions that have been added to a YuJa video do not require any further action, although their visibility can be toggled on or off. A CC button will appear when hovering over the bottom-right corner of a video while it is playing. Anyone watching the video can click that to show or hide captions.

The CC button will not be present if the video does not have captions.

Find a transcript

Click the Show Sidebar button (in the bottom-right, beside the CC button) to open a menu on the right-hand side of the video player. Find the Resources button (the ribbon icon) on the far right and click to display the downloadable transcript in PDF format.

An SRT file, a plain text file, and a PDF will be available for fully processed in the Media Library.

Gernsbacher M. A. (2015). Video Captions Benefit Everyone. Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences, 2(1), 195–202. https://doi.org/10.1177/2372732215602130