Subtitles only appear during the live meeting. This feature is not available in Breakout Rooms and does not create subtitles in the Zoom recording.

Lexicons and dialects specific to a geography or community.

Speaker's proficiency with the English language - at this time, only English is supported.

Volume and clarity of the speaker’s voice.

The accuracy of Zoom’s live transcription feature depends on many variables, such as but not limited to: Note: Live transcriptions cannot be accessed using the web client (browser) regardless of type.

Zoom mobile app for Android and iOS: version 5.0.2 or higher.

Zoom desktop client for Windows, macOS: version 5.0.2 or higher.

Instructions on 'alternative hosts' can be found in this Zoom article. The 'alternative host' will become the 'host' if you are not in the meeting and be able to initiate live captioning. If you are scheduling a meeting that you will not be present for, you should designate an 'alternative host' when creating the meeting. Note: Only the host of a meeting can initiate live transcriptions. These are time stamped and tagged with who was speaking.

Live Transcript: full meeting audio converted to transcripts in real time.

Subtitles: these are captions that appear at the bottom of the Zoom window.Overview: Live captioning within Zoom Meetings and Webinars come in two options: This feature (including Closed Captioning) is enabled by default for all UW-Madison Zoom users.

Most automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcription results in approximately 70-80% accuracy.

Important/Warning: Be aware that because this service creates machine-generated transcriptions, their accuracy will not be perfect. Live Transcription (built-in Otter.ai service) provides robot transcription services, which enables speech to text transcription in meetings and webinars.

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