Generate captions for a recording EN

Captions are made on demand, and they are what make search, chapters and summaries possible.

Rekorder doesn't caption a recording automatically. You generate captions when you want them, from the recording's page. Once they exist, they appear in the player, in the Transcript tab, and in search. They're also what Rekorder needs to create a summary or chapters, or to mute filler words.

Generate captions

Only the person who owns the recording can generate captions.

Open the recording.
In the Edit tab, select Auto-generate Captions. This opens the Transcript tab. You can also open the Transcript tab yourself.
Select Generate.
In the Generate transcript window, pick the spoken language from the Language list, or leave it on Auto-detect.
Select Generate.

The tab shows "Generating…" while the captions are made. When they're ready, the transcript appears on its own. You don't need to refresh the page.

Picking the language yourself is recommended, because it's more reliable than auto-detection. See Caption languages, and how the language is chosen for the details.

What you get

A caption track in the video player, labelled Captions.
A transcript in the Transcript tab. Each line has a timestamp. Select a line to jump to that moment in the video.
Search that finds the moment a phrase was spoken. See Find the moment something was said.
The ability to generate a summary and chapters, and to mute filler words. Without captions, Rekorder tells you to generate them first.

Viewers can see the transcript unless you've turned that off. See Stop viewers downloading, or hide the transcript.

Regenerate captions

If the language was wrong or the result isn't good, open the Transcript tab and select Regenerate. Choose a language and select Generate.

Regenerating replaces the current transcript, including any lines you've edited. Your summary and chapters are kept.

Things to know

Wait for processing. Captions can only be generated once the recording has finished processing. See Why editing, sharing and captions wait for processing.
Wait a minute between attempts. If you generate captions again straight after the last transcript arrived, you'll see "You recently generated captions for a recording. Please wait a minute and retry." Wait a minute, then try again.
Rendering clears captions. Applying edits re-renders the video and clears its transcript, summary and chapters. See Why rendering clears captions, summary and chapters.
Offline mode has no captions. Offline recordings can't be captioned. See What you give up in Offline mode.

If generation fails

If you see "Caption generation failed.", the button comes back so you can try again. If it keeps failing, see Caption generation failed, or is rate limited.

Generate captions for a recording EN