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On this page, you will find a summary of captioning features and instructions on how to set up on-screen captions.

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Camtasia is a powerful and easy to use screen recording and video editing tool that is available to CSUN faculty and staff. Visit听听page.听

Record it All:听Use Camtasia's powerful screen recorder to capture anything on your screen. You can also import videos, music, and photos to customize your videos.

Create Powerful Videos:听Edit and enhance your videos with Camtasia鈥檚 powerful editor, themes, animated backgrounds, graphics, callouts, and more.

Engage Your Audience:听Produce interactive videos and then share videos that your viewers can watch anywhere, anytime.

Captions:听Watch this video on how to听.

Speech-To-Text Captions:听Check this guide on how to use听. This feature is only available for Windows users.

Please note:听Auto-captions are often machine-generated captions with poor quality in which content is not accurately communicated to people who depend on captions.听Auto-captions should be corrected for accuracy and provide equal access for everyone.

Watch this video on how to download and install Camtasia

Live Captioning

This feature is available on Chrome browser. It will not work with Mac Safari browser.

Here are the steps to turn on Google Slides captions:

  1. Make sure your microphone is on and working.
  2. Open a blank Google Slide presentation.
  3. Select听Present听to go into presentation mode.
  4. Select听CC听for Captions
  5. Position and size of the text can also be changed on the听CC听dropdown menu.

If you present slides over video conferencing software (such as Zoom), captions show up on the shared screen. To set expectations for your students, it's a good idea to tell them that captions are from Google Slides and that only the speaker's voice is captioned.

Note:听Unfortunately, you can鈥檛 save or download the transcript.

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Live Captioning

Web-based version:听PowerPoint for the web听and Microsoft Office 365 subscription has built-in automated live captions or subtitles. PowerPoint can transcribe what a person is saying and display them as captions.听Note:听Unfortunately, you can鈥檛 save or download the transcript.

  • Make sure your microphone is on and working.
  • Visit听for instructions on how to set up on-screen captions in your slides.
  • Watch video听.

Please note:听Auto-captions are often machine-generated captions with poor quality in which content is not accurately communicated to people who depend on captions.听Auto-captions should be corrected for accuracy and provide equal access for everyone.