Live Captioning in Zoom

Zoom has just added the ability to add live captions and a transcript to any Zoom room. As an instructor, you can turn this on for any of your rooms, including your classes or your personal meeting room.

First, a few caveats:

For students with a letter of accommodation that specifies live captions, this doesn't cut it. It's not accurate enough. Contact Access Services to get that set up.
It doesn't live caption breakout rooms. If you have a student relying on the live captions, hold one of your breakouts in the main room in Zoom, and make sure that student is in that room.
Your recording will not show the subtitles. Upload your recording to Panopto and let Panopto auto caption it.

Step 1: Turn on Live Transcription in your account

Go to http://highline.zoom.us Links to an external site. and Sign in.
On the left navigation menu, click on Settings.
Scroll down to “In Meeting (Advanced).”
Turn on closed captioning, and check the box to “Enable live transcription…”

Zoom closed caption setting, with switch set to on, and Enable live transcription checked.

Step 2: Start the Live Transcription Service in your meetings

The next time you start a Zoom meeting, there will be a new button along the bottom of the meeting window.

Click on the Live Transcript button.
Then, select Enable Auto-Transcription.

Everyone in your Zoom room—including you—will now have the Live Transcript button at the bottom of the screen. By clicking on the up arrow next to the new Live Transcript icon, each person can hide/show subtitles, and view the full transcript (shows in a new side window).