Zoom at IU now features automatic live transcription, which can help improve accessibility in Zoom meetings. The AI app behind the transcriptions is powered by Otter.AI using Ambient Voice Intelligence, which in part means you can train Otter to learn special terminology.
In addition, once the host enables auto-transcription, meeting participants can choose to hide the subtitles, to view a full transcript in a separate pane, or to modify the font size and display of the closed caption area.
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Zoom at IU now features automatic live transcription, which can help improve accessibility in Zoom meetings. Keep in mind that if you've received an accommodation request, the live transcription service and Zoom is not enough to ensure accessibility in a meeting. For accommodations apart, contact, the assistive technology and accessibility center. The meetings host will need to turn on automatic live transcripts for everyone to have the option to view them to enable the live transcription feature in the menu bar at the bottom of the Zoom window, click on Live transcript. This option is also available under the More option in the Zoom menu when sharing your screen. In the dialog box that appears under the live transcript heading at the bottom of the dialog box. Click the Enable auto transcription button to turn on live transcription. The live transcript subtitles will now display at the bottom of the screen for all participants. All meeting participants, including the meeting host, have the option to hide the subtitles generated by the live transcript tool on their individual device. This does not affect the visibility of subtitles on other participants devices. To hide the subtitles, the Zoom menu bar. Click the arrow to the right of live transcript. In the menu that appears, click Hide Subtitle. The subtitles will no longer be displayed on your screen. To turn them back on, click the arrow to the right of live transcript in the Zoom menu. Then click on Show Subtitle. For more information about the automatic live transcription feature in Zoom at IU, visit the IU knowledge base article, manage automatic live transcription in Zoom at IU, at KB dot IU.edu slash d slash BG SE.A few more things to note:
The automatic captions provide benefits everyone can take advantage of: If you're in a noisy setting or otherwise struggling to follow a discussion, the transcript and captions can make all the difference.
Keep in mind that if you've received an accommodation request, the live transcription service in Zoom is not enough to ensure accessibility in a meeting (and it does not work in breakout rooms). For accommodation support, contact the Assistive Technology and Accessibility Center (ATAC).
A post from Dynamic Language highlights several ways captions and transcripts can improve learning:
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