Zoom has a variety of options for creating closed captioning during a meeting or a transcription to share after the meeting.  


1. Go to Settings in your Zoom Dashboard, In-Meeting (Advanced), or search for Closed Captions in the search bar at the top.  By default this feature is enabled.  Check the options that will best fit your meeting.  Note:  Recommend checking Enable live transcription service to show transcript on the side panel in meeting.




2. With the Automated captions above checked, you can start a meeting and see the Show captions icon in the bottom toolbar or hidden in the More button.  When selected, a dialog box will appear.  Note:  Review the options available for captions.




3. For more information about captions, click Viewing captions in a meeting or webinar.


4. Enable Captions.  Most used method to provide captions to appear at the bottom of the screen during a meeting.  When selected, participants select the Show captions button at the bottom of the screen.  When enabled, a box will appear at the bottom of screen with every spoken word during the meeting.  Note:  Live captions will not be perfect.  Some words can be misinterpreted by Zoom.  


Live transcription




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