# Introducing Transcripts

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You must enable Transcripts in the settings, on each device that you wish to use them on,  before you can use them. 

You can read how to do this [here](/settings/transcripts.md). 
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Transcripts allow you to have a copy of your captioning session once the session has ended. 

Transcripts can be useful for:

* Taking notes
* Being able to read back over what has happened or been discussed
* To attach to notes that have been given to you so that you can read the instruction as well as the notes
* Adding captions to videos
* And many more uses...

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It is important that you inform others that they will be recorded when using Transcripts, as their voice will be turned into text and saved.
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Zip Captions Transcripts will also allow you to export them into the following file formats:

* SRT (A subtitle file format which can be used with video playback sites like YouTube and Vimeo)
* TXT (A plain text format, which can be opened with your text editor)
* VTT (A format similar to SRT but more customisable)

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The captioning engine used for transcripts is the same as the one for captions. Transcripts do not use any additional tokens for AI Captioning.
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{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/sF7n1X1oIFY>" %}

{% embed url="<https://youtu.be/r1RNyEJa3d8>" %}


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