Microsoft Teams: How to Add Captions to Meeting Recordings

Open the 'More' menu in a Teams meeting
Navigate to Calendar
Select the meeting
View the meeting recap
Click on Microsoft Stream to edit
Open video settings
Generate or upload a transcript

Instructions

  1. The meeting needs to have been recorded before this can happen.
  2. After a meeting navigate to the Calendar in Teams.
  3. Select and open the meeting.
  4. Navigate to the recording.
  5. Select Open in Microsoft Stream using the icon in the top right-hand corner.
  6. In Microsoft Stream, select More options (…) and Video settings.
  7. Upload a VTT caption file, or enable Autogenerate captions (if available).

Last modified: Friday, 29 August 2025, 8:08 AM