Please add live captions feature
Even if the live captions are autogenerated, this would help to provide accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing users. This would also benefit individuals and businesses with international clients, where English or another language that is being spoken on the call, is not their native language.
Deafie
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c
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but put romanian as one of the languarges
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Benjamin Lupton
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My peers and I do a lot of international work, and this results in bilingual meetings. One of the main features that is preventing some people from moving from zoom is the lack of captions, including the lack of automatically translated captions. With the advent of AIs in this space for realtime transcription and translation this should be possible to add to Proton Meet's open source and free client in a privacy preserving way.
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Hoda
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Can the meeting host have the option of not allowing users to turn on captions? I teach a second language to kids, and when we used to use Google Meet, they'd sometimes turn them on and read inaccurate transcriptions that become distracting instead of helpful. I do one-on-one classes where it's easy to determine the needs of my student.
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Perri Corvino
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this is a critical feature, as the American with Disabilities Act is strongly enforced at my work. I will continue using Zoom until this feature is provided. ppl with disabilities often have to forgo privacy to meet their accommodations, which is nonsense. we can do better.