Zoom is adding real-time transcription and translation for multiple languages, which it said will be available from next year.<\/p>\n
The meeting platform will use machine learning and artificial intelligence technology to transcribe live speech into text, the company said at its Zoomtopia 2021 conference<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’re planning to extend Zoom’s automated transcription to 30 languages and add live translation to 12 languages in the next year,\u201d Zoom said.<\/p>\n The news comes after Zoom \u2014 which currently offers live speech transcription only in English \u2014 acquired<\/a><\/strong> the translation company Kites<\/a><\/strong> in June.<\/p>\n The accuracy of Zoom\u2019s current transcription capabilities<\/a><\/strong> is influenced by variables such as background noise and the volume and clarity of a speaker\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n Zoom believes the incorporation of Kites’ intelligence will enhance its live transcription abilities.<\/p>\n Alongside the announcement of live speech transcription, Zoom also revealed another major change relating to its Whiteboard feature.<\/p>\n Whiteboard, which allows participants in Zoom meetings to interact on a shared virtual canvas, will soon allow users to use it from a \u201cwide range of devices\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’re also teaming up with Oculus from Facebook to build a Zoom Whiteboard integration for Oculus Horizons Workrooms, which will allow users to access and annotate a whiteboard within a virtual reality environment,\u201d Zoom said.<\/p>\n Zoom is working on adding more languages to its live speech transcription and translation services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":414210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49317,16],"tags":[35793,72320,22845,13651],"class_list":["post-414204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","category-software","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-kites","tag-machine-learning","tag-zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414222,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414204\/revisions\/414222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow Read: Stuck without items ordered or refunds \u2014\u00a0fury after tech stores close down<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"