Add captions to your video on Workplace
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You can add captions to videos that you create. You can do this by either downloading auto-generated captions and then editing and uploading them, or by manually uploading captions.
Using automatic captions
To add captions using Workplace auto caption feature:
- From your timeline, group or News Feed click Photo/Video.
- Select the video you want to upload, then click Manage Captions.
- Click Auto-Generated Captions. Workplace will automatically recognize the language being spoken and create captions for you. This can take a few minutes depending on the length of the video.
- Click
Preview Captions to play the preview video. When you’re ready click Done.
- Say something about your video and then click Post.
Download and edit automatic captions
To download and edit automatic captions:
- First make sure you have generated automatic closed captions for your video.
- Go to your video and click
.
- Click Manage video captions.
- Click
- Click Download captions.
Uploading manual captions using an .srt file
If you already have a .srt file that follows our naming convention and want to upload your own captions:
- From your timeline, group or News Feed click Photo/Video.
- Select the video you want to upload and click Manage Captions, then click Upload .SRT Files.
- Select the .srt caption file you want to upload and click
- Click Done.
- Say something about your video and then click Post.
Live Captions
You can also create live captions during a broadcast. If you're broadcasting, you can turn on live captions from Live Producer when you go live in a group.
If live captions are available for a live broadcast you are watching, you can turn them on by clicking 
. From here you can select whether to turn the live captions on or off.
Live captions are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and German. Learn more about Workplace Live.
