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Save and share transcripts

Who this is for: admins (event producers).

A transcript is the saved text of what was captioned. It is the part you keep for later: minutes, a quote, a post-event record. Unfamiliar words are explained in the glossary.

How a transcript is produced

While you are captioning, the speech service turns audio into text and the capture page collects that text in the current tab. The transcript grows as you speak. Each capture tab keeps its own transcript, its own retry buffer and its own stream, so two producers on the same service never mix their text.

Nothing is recorded or archived automatically. Audio and captions are held in memory only, so a browser crash or an accidental reload can lose pending audio and unsaved text.

Save the transcript

  1. Choose Stop on the capture page.
  2. Wait until the service has finished the speech it already captured.
  3. Choose Download transcript.
  4. Open the downloaded file to check it contains what you need.

The download saves the text collected in that tab. It arrives as a plain text file (.txt) named with the date and time, in your browser's usual downloads location. In translation modes, the file follows the output you chose, including English translations where you asked for them.

Save before you close

Download the transcript before closing or reloading the tab. Stop first, so the last spoken sentence is included. There is no automatic copy on the server to recover afterwards.

What a transcript contains

In the capture page In the transcript
Transcription only Captions in the spoken language.
English translation only Speech translated into English.
Transcription and English translation The spoken text together with its English translation.

Transcripts contain text only. They do not contain audio, timings, speaker names or slide content, and the stack does not identify individual speakers.

Start fresh or clear

Transcripts live in the browser tab, so a fresh session begins with an empty one:

  • To clear the current transcript, use Stop and download it if you need it, then reload the page or open a new capture tab.
  • To caption a new set of speakers separately, open a new tab and leave the old one stopped.

Sharing with other people

Downloading a transcript keeps a copy for yourself. To show captions to other people live, you use sharing instead: the text travels through the relay to an editor and on to an audience overlay or stream. Sharing is a separate feature from saving, described in Your first event. Keep room names private, since anyone with a room link may view it.

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