How to use the translation feature for a meeting

Hi ​@Daryl Wolf! Yes, Zoom can do what you're looking for.

In a regular Zoom meeting, you can use translated captions. This shows the translation as text (subtitles) on your screen while you continue to hear the other person's original voice speaking Spanish.

To turn on translated captions during the meeting:

1. Click Show Captions (or CC) in the meeting controls.
2. Click the ^ (up arrow) next to it.
3. Under Captions and Translation, turn on Translation.
4. Choose the language you want the captions translated into (for example, English), then click Save.

Each participant can choose their own caption language. For example, you can read English captions while hearing Spanish, and the other person can choose Spanish captions while hearing English.

If you see a Voice Translator option, leave it off if you only want translated subtitles. That way, you'll continue to hear each other's natural voices instead of a translated voice.

For more insight into the topic, you may refer to this article: Viewing captions in another language

Thank you so much.  So the one who I will be inviting to the zoom meeting that only knows Spanish will have to do the above steps on her end to be able to see subtitles in Spanish on her end correct?

Zoom has a couple of different language features, so it depends on which one you're referring to.

If you use translated captions, Zoom will display subtitles in your chosen language while you continue to hear the other person speaking in their original voice. Likewise, they can hear you speaking normally while seeing translated captions if they enable them. This sounds like the option you're looking for.

If you use translated audio (available with certain Zoom plans and settings), an AI-generated voice translates the speech into another language. In that mode, the translated audio can replace or be played instead of the original speaker's voice, depending on the settings.

For a one-on-one conversation where you both want to hear each other's natural voices, translated captions are probably the better choice. Just make sure the meeting host has the feature available and enabled, as it isn't included with every Zoom plan.

Thank you Annie for the input.  Hopefully with me being the host the zoom program I have has the translated caption feature.  I will test it out soon.

Hi Community.  I tried the translation feature on Sunday.  I was speaking to a person who spoke Russian and no English.  She said she was only getting text in English not Russian on her screen.  When I asked her what her setting were she said “My spoken Language”: Russian.  And “My subtitle Language”: English.  Shouldn’t her “My Subtitle Language” setting have been Russian as well.  I put both of my setting on English and zoom translated the subtitles in English fair to good most of the time.  But her subtitles were in English on her device.  Thanks for the help Community.