How to Enable Zoom’s New Live Transcripts Closed Captions for Your Meeting

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Zoom brings its Live Transcription feature to free users. Paid users have had access to it service for a while, but free users will soon too have the ability to be automated, AI-poweredsubtitles with them meetings.

Live transcription will be rolled out to all accounts this fall, but you can request early access through this application formMultilingual Zoom hosts, please note: at launch the function only recognizes English

We’re not sure how long it will take for early access to be granted, but here’s how to enable Zoom’s Live Transcription once it’s available to you

  1. Log in to it Zoom website
  2. To go to Settings> Meeting
  3. Switch on “Closed caption.” Note: If you see the feature but can’t enable it, you may need to request permission from the Zoom group or account administrator. You can find more information on Zoom’s support page.
  4. To turn on Enable the live transcription service to have the transcript on the side panel during the meeting.

Enable live transcript during a meeting you’re hosting

  1. Make sure Live transcription is turned on using the steps above
  2. Open Zoom and get started a new meeting or join one
  3. Click “Closed Caption” or Live transcript of the call buttons.
  4. Select ‘Enable automatic transcription’

Once Live Transcript is enabled, you can continue your conversation as normal. The app will handle all subtitles for you.

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The app automatically recognizes speech and types it on the screen, but there is a chance that some errors will occurAccording to Zoom’s support page, a live transcript‘s accuracy can be affected by:

  • Background noise
  • Volume and clarity of the speaker’s voice
  • Proficiency of the speaker with the English language
  • Lexicons and dialects specific to a geography or community

If Live Transcription isn’t working, Zoom recommends typing manual captioning for your Zoom meeting or breakout room in real time.

Google Meet also works as a contingency plan if Zoom’s automatically generated captions aren’t available to you. Meets automatic captions are easy to turn on and identify English, French, German, Portuguese and SpanishIf all else fails, you can use third-party tools such as Description or even one paid transcription service to add captions to a previously recorded meeting.

[The Verge]

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