Releases Q&A: 2021-05-15 Auto-Show Closed Captioning

[erinhmcmillan]

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[jmwatson1]

This feature looks promising, but would like for the verbiage to be more clear. When it says "auto-show", does that mean captions are auto-generated or that caption files uploaded are automatically showing in the player with no action needed from the end user?

Normally the terms used in situations like this are auto-generated, Machine captions, or ASR (automatic speech recognition) when talking about captions that are automatically created.

Auto-show is usually used when captions that are linked to a video show by default as opposed to users having to click CC (Closed Captions) on the video player to see those captions. 

I appreciate any clarification you can provide. 

[dlyons]

You got it exactly right. This feature will "auto-show" captions on Canvas LMS videos if the captions exist. It's not creating captions.

[ekrumhansl]

Does this feature work with Canvas Studio Videos? 

[Stef_retired]

The release notes state, "[V]ideos embedded from Canvas Studio videos are not yet supported but will be in a future release"—so keep an eye out for that.