Summary, Transcript, and Chapters bring the power of AI to your webinar recordings, helping you get more value from every session. Automatically transcribe everything spoken during your webinar, break your recording into clearly labeled sections with timestamps for easier navigation, and generate a concise summary that captures the key points of the session. These features are especially useful for long webinars such as customer onboarding, sales demonstrations, or expert panel discussions, where revisiting specific moments or sharing a quick recap can save you and your attendees significant time.

Transcript is available from Standard edition of Zoho Webinar.

Summary, Smart Chapters and Highlights are available in Professional and Enterprise editions of Zoho Webinar.

Once the settings are enabled, Summary, Transcript, and Chapters are generated automatically.

To enable these settings, navigate to Settings > My settings > Recordings and enable the features.

To access them, navigate to Files > Recordings from the left panel and select the relevant webinar recording.    

 Summary  

Summary is a concise overview of your webinar recording. It captures the key points from the session, allowing you and your attendees to quickly review what was covered.  

Summary is generated automatically if Zia is integrated with your Zoho Webinar account and a transcript is available for the recording. To learn how to integrate, refer to Zia Integration.

You can copy or download the summary and easily share it with the audience.

Edit Summary

To edit the summary, click the edit icon.

Once editing is complete, click Save to apply your changes.

You can generate a summary by navigating to Files > Recordings in the left panel, selecting the webinar, and clicking Generate summary.

Transcript  

Transcript generates a full text version of everything spoken during your webinar recording. You can use it to review the session, search for specific content, highlight key points or keep a written record of the discussion.

Automatically generate a transcript for your webinar recording by navigating to Settings > My Settings > Recording and turning on the following:

Once the above settings is enabled, transcripts will be automatically generated for your webinar recordings.

Edit transcripts

To edit the transcript, click the edit icon.

Once editing is complete, click Save to apply your changes.

  For more options, click the More Options icon in the top-right corner of the transcript panel to do the following: 

• Add to Notes: Adds the transcript to your NoteBook.

• Copy: Copies the full transcript to your clipboard.

• Download: Downloads the transcript to your device.

• Change Language: Translates the transcript into your preferred language.

The available languages are:

 You can generate a summary by navigating to Files > Recordings in the left panel, selecting the webinar, and clicking Generate transcript.

Highlight Transcripts

You can highlight specific moments within a transcript to mark important parts of the session. Highlighted sections can be played back separately by enabling Play Highlights in the video player.  

To highlight a transcript, click on the highlighter icon and add highlights.  

Once a specific transcript is highlighted and you wish to remove the highlight, you can clear the highlight by removing highlights in two ways:

Remove this highlight — removes only the selected highlight.

Remove all highlights — clears all highlights in the transcript.

Use Case:

Consider a product launch webinar where the organizer covers a wide range of topic, from product features and pricing to Q&A sessions.

Action:

The organizer highlights key moments in the transcript such as the feature walkthrough, pricing details, and Q&A session, before sharing the recording with attendees.

Result:

Attendees can enable the Play Highlights toggle to play only the highlighted moments in the recording, without having to watch the entire session. This saves time, improves focus, and ensures that critical information is always within easy reach.

 Chapters  

Chapters divides your webinar recording into clear, navigable sections based on the topics discussed. Each chapter is labeled with a title and a timestamp, you can click on any chapter to jump directly to that point in the recording.   

Note: Chapters cannot be automatically generated if Auto-generate chapters is disabled and no transcript is available, but you can create them manually.

  Generate chapters

To generate chapters, navigate to Files > Recordings from the left panel and select the relevant webinar recording once it is processed. Click Generate Chapters and your chapters will be generated.

Once you click Generate Chapters, your webinar recording will be divided into chapters as shown below.

Managing chapters

After chapters are generated, you can add or edit the title of your chapters with timestamp. To do so, click the pencil icon on the right corner of the chapters panel.

1. When adding or editing chapters, use the following format: mm:ss Chapter_name or hh:mm:ss Chapter_name. For example, 00:00 Introduction
   

2. Enter one chapter per line.

3. You may also paste timestamps directly.

4. If the timestamp you have entered exceeds the video duration, verify the video length and try again.

5. Each thumbnail is captured from the exact timestamp of the corresponding moment in the webinar recording.
   

6. ​Once you have made your changes, click Update to save. 
   

 Share webinar recording  

To share a recording, click on the Share icon in the top-right corner.

When sharing, you can choose to include or exclude access to the transcript, summary and chapters.

In addition to user-level settings, organization admins can enable transcript, chapters, and summary generation for all members by navigating to Settings > Organization > Recording.