{"id":321,"date":"2024-04-03T13:08:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T13:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/\/index.php\/docs\/live-transcription-closed-captions-live-breakout-sessions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:45:06","password":"","slug":"live-transcription-closed-captions-live-breakout-sessions","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/docs\/live-transcription-closed-captions-live-breakout-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Live transcription &amp; closed captions (live breakout sessions)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your live breakout session is hosted in Canapii&#8217;s web conferencing tool, you can add closed captioning in the session settings. Closed captioning adds machine-generated AI transcription in the language of your choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To turn on closed captioning for your webinar\/live breakout, make sure that your session provider is set to Canapii in the session details page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down to the <strong>Live transcription language<\/strong> section in your session details, then click <strong>Change<\/strong> to open the list of available languages. Choose the language that your session will be in, then click Save.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #eef4ff;border-left: 4px solid #3b82f6;padding: 12px 16px;margin: 16px 0;border-radius: 4px\"><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t see the Live transcription language option in your session, double-check that your session is set to Live breakout and the provider is set to Canapii.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When your attendees join the session, they&#8217;ll be able to translate the captions into their preferred language by clicking the language selector in the Transcript section.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying Closed Captions to multiple sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Admins are able to generate closed captions for multiple sessions, providing that their translation requirements are the same.<\/p>\n<p>You can do this by firstly going into each of the individual sessions, scrolling to the bottom of the page &amp; selecting <strong>Transcribe<\/strong>. Here you&#8217;ll select the source language which the transcriptions will be generated from. Once this initial step is completed, follow the next:<\/p>\n<p>1. Go into Sessions.<br \/>2. With the tick boxes, select the multiple sessions which require generated closed captions.<br \/>3. Now that you&#8217;ve chosen the sessions, click on <strong>Actions<\/strong>, from the list find <strong>Generate<\/strong> and select accordingly.\u00a0<br \/>4. Select the already generated Source language i.e. US English &amp; then select the languages which the closed captions should be applied to. Lastly select <strong>Save<\/strong>.\u00a0<br \/>5. To ensure that the closed captions have been applied, go into each session, scroll to the bottom of the page and here you&#8217;ll find a list of the generated closed captions:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-png-Apr-11-2022-01-37-05-29-PM.png\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editing a transcript (.VTT) file\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Post live breakout session, admins are able to download and make edits to the transcript (.VTT) file. Firstly they would be required to download the file &amp; once downloaded, make the changes accordingly. There are however limitations &amp; rules about how a user should make these edits, as per the following guidelines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ensure that you&#8217;re keeping within a 32 character limit, with a max of 2 lines per caption.<\/li>\n<li>Keep a blank line in between each caption frame to indicate the end of a sequence.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that WebVTT isn&#8217;t removed from the beginning of the transcript (all WebVTT files start with this, to indicate that it&#8217;s a .VTT file).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>All sequences begin with a timecode, avoid making edits to the timecode where possible.\n<p><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your live breakout session is hosted in Canapii&#8217;s web conferencing tool, you can add closed captioning in the session settings. Closed captioning adds machine-generated AI transcription in the language of your choice.\u00a0 To turn on closed captioning for your webinar\/live breakout, make sure that your session provider is set to Canapii in the session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"doc_category":[10,37],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-321","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-content","doc_category-sessions"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":432,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"Canapii","author_nicename":"Canapii","author_url":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/author\/administrator\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Content","term_url":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/docs-category\/content\/"},{"term_name":"Sessions","term_url":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/docs-category\/sessions\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/321\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.knowledge-base.canapii.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}