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stuartmcgarrity
Nov 13, 2023Brass Contributor
Is Automatic Transcription for Videos on SharePoint Available Yet?
This article implies it is: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-edit-and-manage-video-transcripts-and-captions-3cb9acb6-05b2-4f59-a50d-7df61123aa20?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-9501 Has anyone ...
Marc Mroz
Microsoft
Jan 19, 2024stuartmcgarrity - We don't have a public API to trigger transcription only the private APIs the UI use and the user clicking the button. But we do have the ability to automatically transcribe videos in some cases, our code is making some guesses that the video will be viewed by other people.
stuartmcgarrity
Jan 20, 2024Brass Contributor
Hi Marc, Is there a better description somewhere of the "some cases"?
I believe your doc is misleading. Its says: "Transcription and Closed Captions are automatically generated for video files that are uploaded to SharePoint."
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-edit-and-manage-video-transcripts-and-captions-3cb9acb6-05b2-4f59-a50d-7df61123aa20?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-9501#bkmk_about
I believe your doc is misleading. Its says: "Transcription and Closed Captions are automatically generated for video files that are uploaded to SharePoint."
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/view-edit-and-manage-video-transcripts-and-captions-3cb9acb6-05b2-4f59-a50d-7df61123aa20?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-9501#bkmk_about