How To Add The Live Closed Captions To Zoom
How To Add The Live Closed Captions To Zoom
The Zoom Video Communications, Inc. is a communications technology company berthed by America in the headquarters of San Jose, California. It makes provision for videotelephony and the online chat services via a cloud-based peer to peer software platform and it is used by many companies and groups for teleconferencing, distance education, social relations, and telecommuting.
History
Zoom was founded by a man called Eric Yuan, he was a former corporate vice president for Cisco Webex. He left the Cisco in the month of April 2011 with 40 of the engineers to start up a new company, originally named "The Saasbe, Inc". The company later had trouble finding people to invest because many people thought that the videotelephony market was already saturated everywhere. In the month of June 2011, the company raised up to $3 million of seed money from the WebEx founder Subrah Iyar, who was the former Cisco SVP and the General Counsel Dan Scheinman, and also the venture capitalists Matt Ocko, Mr Bill Tai and TSVC.
In the month of May 2012, the company had to change its name to Zoom, it was influenced by Thacher Hurd's children's book The Zoom City.
Having a video call meeting is great, but it can leave a lot to be desired when it comes to accessibility. Fortunately, Zoom has got the ability to create real time live closed captions during times of meetings. We will take you through this section and show you how it works.
The Zoom’s live closed captions is very different from the standard closed captions in the sense that they are generated automatically by the AI. At the time of this article, you will need to submit a request form to get the feature on your account. You can do this by making use of the Google Form.
When you have been able to enable live captions on your account, Zoom will give you an Information via your email. Now you can then toggle it on and begin to use the feature in meetings.
How to Turn on The Live Captions on Zoom
1. First, you sign in to the Zoom website in a web browser any browser of your choice such as Google Chrome and then choose “Settings” on your account page.
2. After you have signed in and selected settings Scroll down till you get to the “In Meeting (Advanced)” section and toggle on the switch for “Closed Captioning.”
3. When you have toggled on the live captioning, then toggle the switch, after you have toggled the switch, a pop-up will come up explaining that you must also enable “Save Captions.” Tap on the “Enable” button to do so.
4. After you have enabled the save captions, the next thing to do is to toggle under the “Closed Captioning” , you will now see a box for “Enable live transcription service to display transcript on the side panel in-meeting.” Now check the box and tap the “Save” button.
When you have enabled the live transcribe and clicked the save, now your live captions are enabled on your account. And they will be available every time you are hosting a meeting.
How to Make Use of Live Captions in Zoom Meetings
Once you have enabled the live captions on your account, it is a very simple thing to use them in a meeting. Although you will have to be the host. You can rurn your live captions on from the desktop apps on Windows, your macOS, and your Linux as well as from your Android phone, iPhone phone, and your iPad apps.
Courses and Certification
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