Using the Voice translator for meetings

Voice translator during meetings is designed to enable real-time language interpretation, focusing on live, multilingual meetings and aims to help remove language barriers in live conversations and enable teams to connect and collaborate more effectively. The feature integrates with existing translated captions technology and provides automated text-to-speech services in multiple languages. It uses artificial intelligence to process spoken language, translate content, and generate synthetic speech in real-time. Translation quality may vary and evolve depending on language pair, audio quality, and speaking clarity.

Requirements for using the Voice translator in Zoom meetings

• A Basic, Pro, Business, or Enterprise account
• Live Translation add-on or ZoomMate
  Note: Using advanced AI features in ZoomMate will incur AI Credit costs. Learn more about using Zoom AI credits.
• Voice translator must be enabled
• Zoom desktop app
  • Windows: 7.0.0 or higher
  • macOS: 7.0.0 or higher

Limitations of Voice translator during Zoom meetings

• Currently support the following languages:
  • English
  • Chinese
  • French
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
• Voice translator settings such as speaking language and preferred language can only be configured during a meeting

How to use Voice translator for Zoom meetings

Participants can enable Voice translator during a Zoom meeting.

It offers near real-time interpretation for short speeches and provides interpreted audio playback after the speaker has paused during long continuous speech.

1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop app.
2. Join a Zoom meeting.
3. In the meeting controls toolbar, click the More menu then Voice Translator.
4. Click the My speaking language drop-down to select the preferred language.
5. Click the Language you want to hear drop-drown to select the preferred language.
6. (Optional) Under Balance audio volume, adjust the volume by dragging the slider. Preferably, the original speaking voice should be lowered and the translated voice is at a higher volume setting.
7. (Optional) Click the Translated voice style drop-down to select the preferred voice then click Test voice to listen to the selected voice style.

When another participant speaks, the voice translator icon  appears next to their names indicating the speech is being translated to the language the user wants to hear. Only the person using Voice Translator will see this icon; it will not be visible to participants.