Language Options

Zoom offers several options that support accessibility, allowing anyone to participate in a Meeting or Webinar. The features allow participants to listen to or read the conversations using tools that meet their needs.  

Language Interpretation

Attendees can listen to a live interpreter through a dedicated audio channel, available in multiple languages.

• Follow the instructions for 'User' settings in this article to Enable Language Interpretation in your account.
• Learn how to Use Language Interpretation as a host or participant in a meeting or webinar.

Sign Language Interpretation

Attendees can view a dedicated window of the ASL interpreter; the window can be resized and moved by the viewer. When enabled by the host, the interpretation window is included in the recording files and can be downloaded as a separate video file. 

• Learn how to Use Sign Language Interpretation in a Meeting or Webinar as the host.
• In the article, Enabling Sign Language Interpretation View, click on 'Users' in the menu on the left to learn how to Enable 'User' settings in your account.
• Learn how to view Sign Language Interpretation as a participant. 

Translated Captions

Using Zoom's AI Translated Captions, participants can read real-time translations of the spoken language in another language with several available languages to choose from. 

• The feature requires an add-on license; use the Purchase Form to order licenses.
• Learn how to Enable and Configure Translated Captions; this article includes the prerequisites, supported languages, and configuring language pairs.
  
  
• Learn how to View Captions in Another Language as a participant in a meeting or webinar.

Automated Captions in Different Languages

Attendees can read the conversation in the spoken language. With Automated Captions, hosts have the option to select the specific language they will be speaking; Zoom will generate automated captions in that language.  An attendee can choose their speaking language; as the speaker changes languages, that language will be used for automated captions.  (Note: Zoom's AI is not translating spoken words in one language to captions in a different language.)

For example, if I am a Spanish speaker in the meeting, then I would select Spanish as my 'speaking language' in the caption setting. Whenever speaking, Zoom would caption my Spanish spoken words into Spanish captions. So, once the speaker changes their spoken language, the remaining participants' language will change to the same spoken language as the speaker.

• Enable Automated Captions.
• Learn to Manage Automated Captions. Click on How to Enable Automated Captions for Meeting and Webinars in the box on the left.
• Learn how to View Automated Captions as a participant.