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.

Notes:

• Voice translator is currently available as a beta program for eligible customers and available for free for 60 days starting with the 7.0.0 release. Eligible customers will have access to 5 hours of Voice translator every 30 days during the beta program (10 hours total).
• If your organization would like to evaluate Voice translator during the beta program, an admin can manually enable the Voice translator setting anytime after March 23, 2026.
• Once the 60-day beta program ends, the feature will no longer be available for free. Customers will not be charged for Voice translator at the end of the 60 days. Voice translator is expected to be generally available for purchase as an add-on feature in June 2026.

Requirements for using the Voice translator in Zoom meetings

• A Pro, Business, or Enterprise account
• 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
• Eligible users receive 5 hours of usage every 30 days (10 hours total) during the beta program
• 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 enableVoice 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.