Three ways to add subtitles to Zoom. 

Hi Camille, just after I uploaded the video I realised that the feature is only available in Office 365, so if you have a different version (without a yearly subscription) you likely won't have it sorry :( To double check go to the ribbon at the top and click "Slide Show" and see if the Subtitle options appear.

@@JamieBGall Got it - thanks for the quick reply!

@@camisantistevan Here is a youtube video that explains how it works using google presentations ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VC5EuQGPV18.html

Saludos Teresa. Tienes que aseguaearte que primero selecciones el lenguaje en que estás llevando la presentación. Luego selecciona el lengua que quieres que aparezca en la panta, ya sea el mismo Español en tu caso, o cualquier otro idioma (de la lista proveída).

Hiya Emcee, this will be in Facebook rather than Zoom and there are a couple of options. The subtitles normally go away if people turn the sound on. Or I think that the individual user can turn them off. There is some info here: facebook.com/help/427723640933279 but I'm not much of a Facebook user and its them that are adding them rather than it being a setting inside Zoom.

I think it will be the version you have. It needs to me Microsoft 365. As a workaround you could have a google doc open and be transcribing to that then share the link

@@JamieBGall Thanks for this. I've just been experimenting with the Google Doc voice typing. I'll bear it in mind, but the standard of the transcription is quite poor, and there's no punctuation at all either. I guess it could do as a draft which I could then go back and edit before sharing with students who need it. But at the moment I'm leaning more towards the double-up of Zoom and Meet. Might slow everything down when there's a big class though...

If you have budget and ability the best thing to do would be to use Zooms translation feature which will allow a translator to join and you can then speak normally and choose to listen to the translator instead of the speakers microphone. But I assume you can't. Certainly the transcription in Otter (or it is now available directly through zoom will be almost instantaneous but it will be a laborious thing to constantly copy and past lines into translate. I'd start off by having your questions translated properly, so at least they will be comfortable for them. You might be able to explore just having Google translate or something similar running the whole time. Have it listen and convert in live time. You'd each have the instance open locally. But I'd defo try and find a translator, which for German to English should be easy enough and quite cheap.

@@JamieBGall I have secured a retired famous professor from Germany to do this. They have the questions already. But tell me. If my son has Powerpoint open (your method 1) will the other person see the captions in German when my son speaks in English. Is that easy to set up?

@@DrDanielHoward Yes, as long as your son screenshares his computer then then other person will see all the text that appears, and if you have it set to listen in English and subtitle in German then that is what your guest will see.

This is a great question and unfortunately I don't know any easy way to do this. This would be very very clunky but perhaps you could run a two instances of google translate or some live translation software and share your screen to share both windows. Its a very inelegant solution though and hopefully there is a better one somewhere. but right now people can't select the language they see.

"but right now people can't select the language they see". I was hoping Zoom or one of the major players would produce this feature. It could be a major step in teleconferences! Right now, we still need to have an interpreter to communicate which is inconvenient most times.

Automatic subtitles I'm not sure. Zoom and Otter only do English just now but you could find who is the leader of automatic transcription of your chosen language (Otter was for transcription but moved to closed captions and you might find something similar) The other option is to find a company that do live cc where they assign someone to type the captions eg something like this www.captioningstar.com/spanish-closed-captioning-services/ (got that from google, don't know the company). That can be expensive though.

There are, just click CC and they will appear :)