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. Log in to canvas.umn.edu.
  2. Select My Media (Kaltura) from the Account menu. 
    Canvas, user account page. My Media (Kaltura) highlighted.
    • If prompted to authorize Canvas to access your Kaltura account, select Authorize.
  3. Your personal My Media appears. Find the video you want to remove a caption file from and select the Edit icon Edit 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.
    Delete Confirmation popup. The Delete button highlighted.

Removing Associated Files

When videos uploaded to Kaltura are automatically captioned, additional files are created for use in the Interactive Transcript Viewer. However, when you remove caption files, it is a good idea to remove the associated Interactive Transcript Viewer files as well. Doing so creates a more predictable experience for viewers.

  1. Log in to canvas.umn.edu.
  2. Select My Media (Kaltura) from the Account menu. 
    Canvas, user account page. My Media (Kaltura) highlighted.
    • If prompted to authorize Canvas to access your Kaltura account, select Authorize.
  3. Your personal My Media appears. Find the video you want to remove associated files from and select the Edit icon Edit 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 to delete them.
    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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