In this video I'm going to show you how to set up Closed Captions on Zoom. Look down there! Even as
I speak, my words are getting transcribed; a live transcription! This is super important
for accessibility and you can do this on Zoom even with the free Zoom account. I'm
going to show you how to do that right now. Now the Zoom Help Center has some valuable
information about closed captioning and the live transcription. I'll include a link to this page
in the description to this video. It does point out that there are some limitations of real-time
transcriptions. You do need to be running the - a minimum version of the Zoom desktop client
or the mobile app, and the same thing for the operating system: Windows, Mac, Android,
whatever it is that you are running now. If you want to check what version of Zoom you are running
then go into the Zoom client and go to zoom.us and you can find About Zoom. That shows you what
version you're running, and if you are not on the latest version. zoom.us, check for updates.
And if you do need to update it, it's a very simple install that will take about a minute,
and then you're done. So, back to enabling the closed captions and the transcript options. So
you go into zoom.us into the web browser and then go into Settings, and then under Meeting
here. So you scroll down to the end: Meeting - Advanced. And then to Closed Captioning. We need
this one enabled. We actually will not need this third party one enabled, but I've got it enabled
anyway. It's not a problem. This is the one we want: is Allow Live Transcription Service
to transcribe the meeting automatically. Click on that and then Save and then next time you go
into a Zoom meeting you should have that live transcription option. Oh! One last thing to note
is that you can allow participants to save the closed captions or the transcripts themselves,
so make sure that that's enabled if you want to allow them to do that. So we jump into a Zoom
meeting and you've got this option down here, probably on the More button, either for closed
captions or for live transcripts, so let's select that. Now we're not going to assign a participant
in the meeting to do the typing for us. I'm not going to be doing the typing myself
and we don't have a third party company or a third party tool that is doing the closed captioning.
We're going to use the live transcription from Zoom itself. So, as soon as I enable that,
you'll see this message across the screen: You've turned on live transcription. And now my words
are going to come across the screen. Now if you're finding that a little bit distracting or annoying,
you can always keep the transcript going but you can hide those subtitles, but the
transcript is still being captured. We can turn them on again. Show the subtitle and we can also
change the settings; the font size. So I can make that smaller or larger as you wish. Now
if you want to turn off this transcript, not just hide the subtitles you can just click on
Disable there. And then the transcript won't continue happening. Now you can have that
setting for closed captioning for live transcription. You can have that enabled
on your account but you still need to turn it on for each meeting because some meetings you may
not want transcribed at all. Live transcript: are you going to use this live transcript facility in
Zoom to improve accessibility? Let me know in the comments. And hey! If this video has helped you
then give it a like so that it will get shared with others who might also need to know about it.