

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.
