Hello, Crafton Hills faculty. This is Suzanne
Delahanty, your alternative media and assistive
technology specialist with a very exciting
announcement. Zoom has just announced the addition
of a free, live automated captioning tool for all
of their paid accounts. As faculty and staff, we
have immediate access to this new captioning
feature in our own ConferZoom accounts, as well as
any other ConferZoom accounts which are paid for by
the CCC. The live captioning feature is available
right now and is simple and easy to activate in
your own Zoom sessions. But before we begin, it's
really important for you to know that this feature
can only be activated by the Zoom lead host,
which in your classes, is you. And again, your
students cannot activate this feature. Only you,
as the meeting host, can turn on the live captions
for others to see in your meetings. Once you
turn them on as the meeting host, your students
will then be able to see a small close captioning
button in their own (Zoom) control strip. With that
button they can turn the streaming captions on or
off in their own view of the meeting, as well as
adjust the caption size, however, they prefer their
own caption size. So let me quickly demonstrate
these features. So for you, all you need to do, (I
already have this feature running), but in your
main window on the bottom of the Zoom toolbar,
you'll see a CC icon,and it says and live transcript.
If you don't see it, that means your window might
not be stretched out enough. So if your meeting window is
shrunken and small like this, you might not be
able to see it unless you go to the "more" button
right here. And in that case, you would activate
and say "show subtitles" and "live transcript".
This is how you would activate it. As far
as your students, they would need to be told that
the CC button is available in their toolbar now. They
may not know that, they need to be told they can access their cc
button after you've activated the captions; and for
them to activate it by going
in to CC and saying "show transcripts"; or also the
feature of showing the "full transcript" on the side
view as it's captioning live. To do that, you
simply just select the CC button again, and then you
go to "view full transcript" and that pops out a
full transcript window of everything that's been
said in the meeting thus far. It will continue to
the very end of the meeting. I would say that
the accuracy of this tool is about eighty five
percent. It's powered by Otter A.I., which is an
extremely well known and very high quality
automated captioning tool. At any time that you
feel that you would like to save the transcript,
you can do so here with the "Save transcript" button.
This is very handy because as you have students
jump into the meeting, their usernames are also
going to be shown in the transcript. When
different people speak, if they don't have a
username, it will only show just an anonymous user.
if they have a picture, it will show a picture of
their avatar. If you'd like to save the
transcript, you simply click on the "save
transcript button" and it tells you it's been saved.
Then you can view it immediately on your computer,
on your desktop. I'm going to give you a look
at what this looks like. It is timestamped. It
does tell you for every second what has been said.
And at any point you can actually re-download this.
It's a really powerful tool to also check your
discussions to see if students have actually been
taking part in discussions and it will timestamp
and show their names as well. So I hope that this
makes sense to you and that you will consider
using this in your own course. This is an excellent
universal design tool because it actually helps
all kinds of learners, not just those who are hard
of hearing and deaf, but also students with other
type of learning concerns such as dyslexia, autism,
and those who have a little bit of need to see the
words while they're watching a meeting. This is very
helpful for English language learners too. Hopefully
you've enjoyed this and will consider
incorporating this into your live Zoom meetings. And as
anything else, if you have any questions or need
any assistance, please feel free to reach out to
me. Thank you. Have a wonderful day!