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Kaltura: Remove Automatic Captions

When videos are uploaded to Kaltura in Canvas and MediaSpace, they are automatically captioned. This is done through the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR), which scans the audio track for spoken English. Media owners and co-editors can remove the automatic caption and associated files from a specific video in Kaltura.

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Removing Automatic Captions

  1. Open a browser and go to Canvas (canvas.umn.edu). You may need to sign in.
  2. Find your media:
    1. Select the Courses icon in the left navigation bar. All of your available courses will appear.
    2. Select the course you want.
    3. Select My Media from the course navigation menu. If the My Media link is not shown, the course's owner can add it by following the instructions in Adding Kaltura Course Tools to Canvas.
      Canvas course menu bar. My Media is highlighted.
  3. Find the video you want to remove a caption file from and select the pencil icon  located to the right of the video.
  4. Select the Captions tab under the video.
  5. Select the X next to the English caption to delete it.
    The Delete button in actions for Captions
  6. Select Delete in the popup box that appears.
    The Delete button highlighted in the Delete Confirmation popup

Removing Associated Files

When videos uploaded to Kaltura are automatically captioned, additional files are created for use in the Interactive Transcript Viewer. This feature is not yet available at the University of Minnesota. However, when you remove caption files, it is a good idea to remove the associated Interactive Transcript Viewer files as well. This way, if/when the transcript viewer becomes available, it will create a more predictable experience for viewers.

  1. Open a browser and go to Canvas (canvas.umn.edu). You may need to sign in.
  2. Find your media:
    1. Select the Courses icon in the left navigation bar. All of your available courses will appear.
    2. Select the course you want.
    3. Select My Media from the course navigation menu. If the My Media link is not shown, the course's owner can add it by following the instructions in Adding Kaltura Course Tools to Canvas.
      Canvas course menu bar. My Media is highlighted.
  3. Find the video you want to remove associated files from and select the pencil icon  located to the right of the video.
  4. Select Attachments under the video.
  5. Select the X next to the files ending in .txt and .json.Kaltura Attachments tab. .txt, .json, and the x icons underneath Actions label are highlighted
  6. Select Delete in the popup box that appears.

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