Live translation on Zoom, in your language, line by line

What Zoom gives you

Translated captions need a Business Plus plan or an add-on on the host’s account, and the host turns them on.

The transcript side of this, with who can start it and who can download it, is on Zoom transcript.

Translation on your side of the call

Open the meeting in Chrome, click the Trippi Notes icon, and turn on the translation line on the language bar. From then on each line appears with the speaker’s name, in the language it was said, with your language under it. It does not matter what plan the host has or whether they switched anything on.

• Join from the browser. Use the “join from your browser” link under the app prompt. Some hosts switch it off; ask them.
• Pick your language once. The choice is remembered for the next call.
• Keep the original. The line in the speaker’s language stays above the translation, so a number or a name is never only a translation.

After the call

The summary is written in the language you read, with decisions, tasks and open questions. You can ask about the meeting in your language too: “what did they say about the price?”, and the answer quotes the original lines with the translation.

Your own words

Your microphone is mixed with the tab, so your lines are in the transcript as well. If you speak your language and the others speak theirs, both sides are written, and each side gets the other in translation.

How to start

1. 1Open the call in Chrome. Google Meet, Zoom in the browser, or Teams in the browser.
2. 2Click the Trippi Notes icon. From that click it hears the meeting tab and your microphone, and writes each line with the speaker’s name.
3. 3Read along, or read it after. The lines appear as people speak. After the call you get a summary, tasks and a follow-up draft.

Tell people you are taking notes; a sentence at the start is enough. What to say.