Google Meet is getting caption support for video recording: Here’s how it works
Video conferencing apps have significantly improved the utilities and the benefits that they offer ever since work from home was introduced in companies across the industries during the pandemic. Over the years, companies have not only made video conferencing platforms more dynamic to use but they have also made them more inclusive, especially for people from different languages and with various disabilities. Case and point, Google Meet. Google’s video-conferencing platform introduced live translated captions in meetings for select Google Workspace users last year. And today, the company has announced a major upgrade to this feature, one that will make Google Meet meetings accessible to more users.
Google, in Workspace Update blog, announced that users can now include the live translated captions in the meeting recordings. “If you’re using captions in Google Meet, you now have the option to include those captions in a meeting recording. Including captions in your meeting recordings can help make them more useful and accessible for meeting participants,” Google wrote in a blog post.
For the unversed, Google Meet users can use the platform’s Live Translated Captions option to live translate conversation going during a meeting. The translated captions are show at the bottom of the Google Meet screen whenever any participant is speaking. This feature supports translations to and from English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. However, up until now, these captions were available only when a meeting was going on.
Today the company has announced that these captions will also be available as a part of a meeting recording if the feature has been enabled. With this update, participants who hail from a different language or have some form of disability will be able to revisit the meetings without missing out on the critical details even when the meeting is over.
The only caveat is that this feature will work only when it has been enabled by a host or a co-host.
As far as availability is concerned, Google says that it has started rolling out this feature to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade customers and that all of the eligible users should get the update within a couple of weeks.
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Video conferencing apps have significantly improved the utilities and the benefits that they offer ever since work from home was introduced in companies across the industries during the pandemic. Over the years, companies have not only made video conferencing platforms more dynamic to use but they have also made them more inclusive, especially for people from different languages and with various disabilities. Case and point, Google Meet. Google’s video-conferencing platform introduced live translated captions in meetings for select Google Workspace users last year. And today, the company has announced a major upgrade to this feature, one that will make Google Meet meetings accessible to more users.
Google, in Workspace Update blog, announced that users can now include the live translated captions in the meeting recordings. “If you’re using captions in Google Meet, you now have the option to include those captions in a meeting recording. Including captions in your meeting recordings can help make them more useful and accessible for meeting participants,” Google wrote in a blog post.
For the unversed, Google Meet users can use the platform’s Live Translated Captions option to live translate conversation going during a meeting. The translated captions are show at the bottom of the Google Meet screen whenever any participant is speaking. This feature supports translations to and from English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. However, up until now, these captions were available only when a meeting was going on.
Today the company has announced that these captions will also be available as a part of a meeting recording if the feature has been enabled. With this update, participants who hail from a different language or have some form of disability will be able to revisit the meetings without missing out on the critical details even when the meeting is over.
The only caveat is that this feature will work only when it has been enabled by a host or a co-host.
As far as availability is concerned, Google says that it has started rolling out this feature to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, the Teaching and Learning Upgrade customers and that all of the eligible users should get the update within a couple of weeks.
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