Bridge the Language Gap and Connect People With Zoom Translated Captions
Zoom connects the world, and more specifically, Zoom connects people. Many of these people, however, don’t always speak the same language. Today we’re proud to announce an add-on for Zoom accounts to help remove language barriers, connect people, and promote inclusivity to your meetings and webinars: translated captions.
The translated captions feature reduces the need for interpreters and third-party integrations so you can foster a more inclusive environment in every meeting and webinar. Whether you’re a large company conducting business in multiple languages or a global university with multinational enrollment, translated captions help bridge language gaps.
Translated captions are debuted in June 2022. This functionality helps remove one of the biggest hurdles to effective collaboration in an increasingly connected, global world, and can benefit more people.
Now available as an add-on for paid Zoom accounts, the feature enables anyone in a Zoom meeting or webinar, including those hosted in our
Zoom Events solution, to translate the source language into English captions or translate English into captions in your preferred language.
We currently support caption translation for 12 languages:
- Chinese Mandarin – Simplified (beta)
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese (beta)
- Korean (beta)
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Ukrainian
More languages are added often 😀
If a meeting or webinar is recorded, the translated captions will appear in the full recording transcript, but not on the recording itself.
We are also continuously working to advance our caption capabilities to help make your meetings even more inclusive. In the coming months, we plan to:
- More than double the number of supported languages for translated captions
- Provide the ability to translate captions to and from languages beyond English – for instance, translating from French to German and vice versa
Disclaimer: Marquesa is Not an employee of Zoom