Auto-captions
Padlet supports auto-captions for uploaded videos and audio.
How to access auto-captions
Videos
When you upload a video, auto-captions are generated. To enable them, click the Settings cog icon (⚙️) on the video player, then click Captions and select the language. The captions will then be displayed at the bottom of the video player.

Audio
When you upload audio, auto-captions are generated. To enable them, click the Settings cog icon (⚙️) on the audio player, then click Captions and select the language. The captions will then be displayed at the bottom of the audio player.
Edit auto-captions
In times where the auto-captions aren't quite right - edit them!
This is also helpful if you want to add more audio description for sound effects that are happening in the video that auto-generated captions may not include.
Edit the auto-captions of a video by following the steps below:
- After the video has been posted to the padlet, hover your mouse over the post and click Edit.
- Click Subtitles > Download subtitles.

- Open the file on your device and edit, as necessary > Save.
- Go back to your post and click Subtitles > Upload subtitles.
- Select your file and then click Update.
Supported languages
Auto-captions are supported in the following languages:
Languages | ||
Bulgarian | Catalan | Czech |
Danish | Dutch | English |
Finnish | French | Galician |
German | Greek | Hebrew |
Hindi | Hungarian | Indonesian |
Italian | Japanese | Korean |
Malay | Norwegian | Polish |
Portuguese | Romanian | Russian |
Spanish | Swedish | Thai |
Turkish | Ukrainian | Vietnamese |
Welsh |