Zoom brings translated subtitles as a plugin to facilitate inclusivity
Being already present since June of this year in the Zoom One Business Plus and Zoom One Enterprise Plus plans, Zoom now introduces the arrival of translated captions as an add-on for paid accounts, to encourage inclusive meetings and webinars.
This reduces the need for third-party solutions so that participants can understand what is being said in meetings and webinars, including those hosted through Zoom Events, in their own language, where the translated subtitles feature as a plugin it has a total of 12 supported languages:
Spanish, German, Mandarin Chinese (Simplified) – Beta, Korean – Beta, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Japanese – Beta, Portuguese, Russian and Ukrainian.
Focusing on organizations
Zoom says that if a meeting or webinar is recorded, translated subtitles will appear on the full transcript of the recording, not on the recording itselfand advance that in the coming months they plan to double the number of supported languagesas well as offering the possibility of translating subtitles to and from languages other than English, taking the example of translations from French to German and vice versa.
Regarding who will be able to use this function, Zoom says that it is available for any paid Zoom license for just $5 per month per user, and that translated subtitles follow the host’s settingsso that:
So if the host enables translated captions, all participants and attendees will be able to use them in your meeting or webinar.
Those interested with access to this function can enable it from the Zoom web portal, establishing the preferred languages, as indicated by the platform in a statement, and then:
Once the languages are activated and configured, you can select a subtitle language directly in the meeting. The translated subtitle will appear at the bottom of the screen and can be hidden at any time.
From Zoom they will continue to develop the feature to help organizations around the world conduct increasingly inclusive meetings and webinars, and more in an area that is moving more towards hybrid work environments.
