

How to view closed captions or live transcription in a Zoom Room
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Manual captions allows the meeting host to assign a participant to type the closed captions.Īutomated captions (live transcription) uses the meeting audio to automatically create captions. Under In Meeting (Advanced), click the Manual captions or Automated captions (live transcription) toggle to enable or disable them.Click Edit next to the Zoom Room you want to enable closed captioning for.In the navigation menu, click Room Management then Zoom Rooms.How to enable closed captioning in Zoom Rooms Meeting with closed captioning or live transcription.Prerequisites for using closed captioning in Zoom Rooms Assigning a participant to manually type captions in a meeting.How to use closed captioning as the meeting host.How to view closed captions or live transcription in a Zoom Room.How to enable closed captioning in Zoom Rooms.If the Zoom Room joins a meeting as a participant, and closed captioning or live transcription is available for that meeting, the captions can be viewed on the Zoom Rooms display. Zoom strongly recommends using this value because local clocks are often poorly synchronized.Įxample returned timestamp: T00:00:06.Zoom Room meeting hosts can enable live transcription for a meeting, or assign participants to manually type captions. It may be used to correct the local clock on a client driving the server. HTTP POST returns timestampĪ timestamp value is present in the POST return body and corresponds to the time the POST was processed. You should retry until it makes more sense to move on to the next closed caption packet (after approximately 5 seconds). Wait a random period between milliseconds and retry if that fails, wait a random period between milliseconds and retry if that fails, wait a random period between milliseconds and retry, and so on. When performing retry requests, use randomized binary exponential backoff: If a request times out, it should be retried. This includes the response codes 405, 400, 403 shown above, as well as additional codes such as 408 Request Timeout, 500 Internal Server Error, 502 Bad Gateway, 503 Service Unavailable, and 504 Gateway Timeout.Īll HTTP POST requests should be performed with a timeout. Zoom recommends that you retry all codes.
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The language code and ISO country code separated by a hyphen. The seq number of the last successful send can be obtained through the API: /closedcaption/seq Counter must increase by one between posts of new caption data (it must not be increased for retries). Counter for all closed caption data posts. The following parameter needs to be added to the URL of every POST: Name The URL of the POST will specify the destination of the data (the meeting that the closed captions are associated with). Every meeting and breakout room session has a special URL (breakout room sessions have an additional subconfid parameter). Zoom expects closed caption data to arrive in a continuous sequence of POSTs. Using the URL for closed captioning over HTTP In a Zoom meeting or webinar that you are hosting, click Closed Caption.Alternatively, the host can copy the URL and send it to someone else using in-meeting chat.
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In order to establish the connection, the host or co-host must copy the caption URL and enter it into a closed captioning software that supports Zoom's closed captioning REST API.

