Zoom live translation: meeting captions and Team Chat

Translate speech during a Zoom call

Join using the Zoom Web App. In the meeting toolbar look for Show captions; check More if the toolbar is narrow. Confirm the source caption matches what the speaker said.

1. Open the caption language options. If translation is enabled, choose the language you want to read.
2. If your language is missing, ask the host to check translated-caption access and the allowed language pairs. If no source captions appear at all, ask whether captions are enabled for this meeting.

Zoom Support: how hosts enable translated captions and language pairs

Translate the message after the meeting

Open the actual conversation in Zoom Workplace → Team Chat. If it is a continuous meeting chat, you can read messages there after the call without joining again. To translate one, paste the message into the tool below; you do not need a caption track.

With the CastReader extension preview, select Translate chat in the conversation header and choose your target language. It translates messages visible in the open conversation and new arrivals. In a tested chat, “The train arrives before noon.” appeared with “火车在中午之前到达。” The word “before” matters: the message does not say the train arrives at noon.

Where to find the CastReader controls in a live meeting

Meeting translation is the start control inside the browser meeting; Translate chat is for the separate chat workspace. In the preview, turn on Zoom’s source captions, start Meeting translation, and set your reading language using the gear. New captions and meeting messages get translations in your view.

Keeping settings open is optional. If a caption disappears before its translation arrives, look in the recent entries under the gear. Stopping translation prevents new requests; it does not erase finished translations.

Zoom Support: find the Show captions control in the Web App