Zoom meetings can now have automatic captions that help you keep track of what’s being discussed. This way, you can be more focused on the discussion and not have to read the text of the meeting.
For the time being, you can only get access to live captions in English, but Zoom says it plans to add other languages in the future.
In a blog post, Zoom’s Theresa Larkin said, “It’s important to us that everyone can successfully connect, communicate, and participate using Zoom. Without the proper accessibility tools, people with disabilities face tremendous barriers when using video communication solutions.”
The goal is to make Zoom more accessible for everyone, and having this key feature available to anyone, regardless of whether they pay for an account, is a big step towards that goal. “That’s why we are focused on building out a platform that is accessible to everyone, and features such as auto-generated captions are an important part of that mission,” Larkin continued.
It’s easy to enable automatic captions in Zoom. You need to go to “Account Management” then click “Account Settings.” From there, click the “Meeting” tab, then head to “In Meeting (Advanced),” and then click “Closed captioning” to enable it. Once you do that, you’ll get live English transactions during your Zoom calls, which is a fantastic feature to have.
