Captions and chapters
Captions and chapters for every replay
When your event's call made a transcript (a Daily room run from Talk, or Zoom's cloud recording), the replay plays it as captions. On your own AI key, one button splits the replay into titled chapters, and another translates the captions into Spanish, French, German, Portuguese or Italian with the timings kept exactly.
What it does
Captions and chapters in Programmable Talk
Captions from the call
Talk keeps the call's WebVTT transcript and attaches it to the replay as captions, with speaker names. Captions are as public as the replay.
A transcript beside framed players
Where the player is someone else's (YouTube and the like), the transcript shows as a panel beside the video instead.
Chapters
"Make chapters" reads the timed transcript and writes a title and start time for each part. On our player a chapter seeks; on YouTube it opens at that time.
Translated tracks
"Translate captions" makes one track per language, cue by cue, timings unchanged. Viewers pick a language in the player.
Your own AI key
Chapters and translations run on your own AI key. Without one, the buttons don't show. Talk makes no AI calls on its own key.
How you use it
- 1
Record with a transcript
Turn on captions in a Daily room run from Talk (on your Daily plan), or turn on audio transcripts for Zoom cloud recordings.
- 2
Wait for the replay
After the event, the recording and transcript are fetched from your account and appear on the After tab.
- 3
Make chapters, translate
On the After tab, press "Make chapters" and "Translate captions". Both need your AI key in Settings.
- 4
Share
The replay page, the on-demand library and the follow-up email all carry the captioned replay.
Good to know
- No transcript, no captions
- Talk doesn't transcribe audio itself. A replay pasted from YouTube or elsewhere without a call transcript has no captions here.
- Translations are machine-made
- Check them before an event where accuracy matters.
- No clips
- Talk doesn't cut short video clips from the replay.
Works with
Zoom
Zoom's audio transcript for cloud recordings, read on your Zoom app. Zoom offers it on Pro, Business, Education and Enterprise accounts with cloud recording on.
Daily
Daily's transcription, started from the room and billed to your Daily plan. Daily says transcription is on paid plans only.
Your AI provider
The key you add in Settings writes the chapters and translations.
Questions
Why add captions to a webinar replay?
People watch with the sound off, in a second language, or need captions to follow at all. Captions and a transcript beside the video help all of them.
Where do the captions come from?
From the call's own transcript: a Daily room run from Talk with captions on, or a Zoom cloud recording with audio transcripts on. Talk keeps it as WebVTT and attaches it to the replay.
How are chapters made?
Your AI key reads the timed transcript and writes a short title and start time for each part of the talk. Not happy with them? Clear them on the After tab and make them again.
Which languages can captions be translated into?
The page languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian, one track each.
Do you use AI on my content?
Only on your own AI key, and only when you press the button. Without your key, nothing is sent anywhere.