[technology taskforce] Simultaneous Interpretation coming to Zoom?

[Carlton Samuels]

Thanks for sharing Dev.

All remarkable developments if they come to fruition!

Carlton

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 2:45 PM Dev Anand Teelucksingh <devtee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Spotted in the Zoom blog post about their Zoomtopia 2019 event:
>
> https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2019/10/15/zoomtopia-2019-unified-communications-platform/
>
> "*Simultaneous interpretation: *Users bring their own interpreters and
> Zoom provides multiple audio channels that mix the original and interpreter
> audio at an optimal ratio that enables the listener to understand the
> interpreter but also hear the tone of the original speaker."
>
> This would obviously be interesting to test when Zoom (and presumably
> ICANN will enable)
>
> Other things of note :
>
> "Zoom Chat -* Comments and reactions (beta): *These enhancements organize
> conversations happening in parallel and allow users to react to specific
> messages with emojis, greatly improving the user experience."
>
> *"Zoom Meetings*
>
>    - *Live transcripts:* Following the success of recording transcripts,
>    this AI-based functionality powered by Otter.ai transcribes Zoom
>    meetings <https://zoom.us/beta?zcid=1231> in real-time and saves
>    transcripts for future reference.
>    - *Meeting notes, action items, and timelines: *Users may take notes
>    directly in the Zoom interface or use Zoom’s live transcription (see above)
>    for voice note taking. Notes and AI-derived action-items are automatically
>    made available to invited meeting participants after the meeting via
>    Meeting Timelines.
>    - *Video and slideshow virtual backgrounds: *New capabilities for
>    mixed-reality virtual backgrounds include support for videos and Microsoft
>    PowerPoint files, in addition to existing JPEG support."
>
>
>
> Dev Anand
>
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> Dev Anand
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