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Warning
Microsoft Stream (Classic) is being retired and replaced by Stream (on SharePoint) and Microsoft Teams live events.
It is recommended to start using Stream (on SharePoint) by uploading videos to SharePoint, Teams, Viva Engage, or OneDrive, and to run your live events through Teams and Viva Engage.
Functionality in Stream (Classic) will be changed and
removed leading up to the retirement date
. Learn more about
Stream (on SharePoint)...
You can add subtitles or captions to any Microsoft Stream (Classic) video during upload or after. You can also choose to configure your video so Stream (Classic) generates captions automatically using Automatic Speech Recognition technology. For more information, see
Autogenerate captions
.
Captions are indexed and used by Stream (Classic) to power deep search, helping viewers watch exactly what they need. For information about how to use deep search, see
Search words spoken in a video
.
You can't upload a caption file if you have selected to autogenerate captions.
You can't autogenerate captions if you have already uploaded a caption file.
Upload a subtitle or caption file to an existing video
In
Stream
, find the video you want to edit (for example, through
My videos
,
My channels
,
My groups
or
Browse
)
Click the pencil icon to
Update video details
In the
Options
window, upload
Subtitles
and
Captions
by selecting a language and uploading your file
View subtitles or captions
Subtitles and captions can be viewed with the video player on
the playback page
.
Download subtitles or captions
If you have uploaded a subtitle or caption file, or autogenerated a caption file, you can download the WebVTT file from the
Update video details
page.
If you need to make changes to the autogenerated transcript / caption, you can download the caption file and edit it in a text editor of choice before uploading it back to Stream, or you can edit the transcript directly in Microsoft Stream (Classic) in
the transcript window
.
Get just the text from a transcript
At times you may want to get a copy of a video's transcript without any time codes, metadata, and extra lines.
Microsoft Stream (Classic) doesn't have a built in way to do this, but you can download the transcript (as listed above) and use a simple web utility to extract the transcript text from your downloaded VTT file. This web utility allows you to pick VTT files from your computer and get a copy of the text portion of the VTT file containing just the transcript.
Web utility:
Microsoft Stream (Classic) transcript VTT file cleaner
See also
Edit transcripts
Autogenerate captions
