Auto-Captions Available Without Studio?

[SeanQuallen]

I'm trying to track down information about auto-captioning. I know that auto-captions are available with Studio, but I've been told that auto-captions WITHOUT Studio (i.e., vanilla Canvas) are coming soon.

Does anyone have any information they can link to about that?

[Gabriel33]

There is this roadmap item: Captions for all Canvas media can be automatically generated and published..., listed in the Canvas Roadmap for Q2-Q3 2025, but it is listed under Canvas Studio, so I'm not sure if it really applies to media outside of Studio.

[SeanQuallen]

Thanks Gabriel33. I did indeed see this roadmap and it spurred the question.

is auto captioning going to extend beyond Canvas Studio?

[masantos]

Hi @SeanQuallen,

I believe there are plans to do so, but it looks like it is in Beta. 

[SeanQuallen]

Thanks for this. Looks like that beta period was supposed to be over already, so I'm not really sure if/when this actually happens.

[occnmastroianni]

I don't have any details on when, but I wanted to chime in with my agreement that this feature is probably coming. With the WCAG 2.1 Level AA rule coming in about a year, this would help with at least 1.2.2 level-A. Ideally, this implementation (without requiring the paid Studio platform) will allow you to edit the captions it generates, as they are not 100% correct. I wonder if they will provide us with a solution to help us meet success criterion 1.2.5, level AA.