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Colorado Free Application Days & National Transfer Student Week

Colorado Free Application Days: Colorado residents and students can apply to CU Denver’s undergraduate programs for free Oct. 20–22 with code FREEAPPDAYSCO

National Transfer Student Week: All transfer applicants to CU Denver’s undergraduate programs will have their application fee waived automatically Oct. 19-23. 

Audio Transcription of a Zoom Recording

Audio transcription automatically transcribes the recorded audio of a meeting or webinar. After the transcript is processed it will appear as a separate file in the list of recorded meetings (VTT file). You can display the transcript text in the video (similar to closed captioning).

The transcript is divided into sections with timestamps. You can edit the text manually for a more accurate transcript.

Audio transcription is only available in English.

Requirements

  • Business, Education or Enterprise license with cloud recording enabled.
  • Account owner or admin privileges

Enabling Audio Transcription

  1. Sign into Zoom web portal.

  2. In the navigation menu, select Settings and then click the Recording Tab.

Screenshot of Settings menu with Recording tab highlighted
  1. Verify that “Cloud Recording” is enabled.

Screenshot of cloud recording toggle on

Generating a Transcript

  • Start a cloud recording.
  • After the recording, you will receive an email that lets you know that the recording is available, you will receive another email that the audio transcript for the recording is available (this may come several minutes after the first email, the audio file may take additional time to process). These emails contain links to your recording and transcript.
Screenshot of zoom call with Record button highlighted

Viewing and Editing the Transcript

Audio transcripts are saved as VTT files. If you download the VTT file, you can open it with a text editor or word processor. You can also view or edit transcripts in the web portal.

  1. Sign into Zoom.
  2. In the navigation menu, select Recordings.
  3. Select the recorded meeting that you want to edit. You will see a list of recorded files.
Screenshot of Navigation menu with Recordings selected
Screenshot of view with recording with transcript settings
  1. Click the play icon. The transcript will display on the right side of the recording
  2. Hover over the area that you want to edit and click the pencil icon. You can also edit the speaker’s name.
  3. When you are done editing the text, click the check mark and the updated version of the text will be displayed.
Screenshot of transcript editor with pencil icon selected

Displaying the transcript as closed captions

  1. Sign into Zoom.
  2. In the navigation menu, select recordings.
  3. Select the recorded meeting that you want to edit. You will see a list of recorded files.
  4. Click the play icon. Click the CC button at the bottom right of the screen.
Screenshot of zoom with CC button highlighted