Auto-Captions Available Without Studio?

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?

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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.

masantos

Hi @SeanQuallen,

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

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.

Jebruhn

I wanted to reping this topic- it should definitely be a free feature for users to provide accessible content for students. Is there an update on auto captions for those without access to Canvas Studio?

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