Show real-time translation and transcription in meetings and webinars

Real-time translation and transcription allows you to have more inclusive and engaging meetings and webinars. The host can select from 15 spoken languages for a meeting or webinar, which can then be translated into more than 100 other languages in closed captions.

This article is about Webex meetings and webinars. For information on Webex devices, see Closed captioning on Board, Desk, and Room Series.

When real-time translation is on, the system automatically translates a person's speech into captions that appear above the meeting or webinar controls. The captions panel on the right side shows the selected spoken language.

Only the host can select the spoken language for transcription. On Webex App, cohosts who join a meeting from a device can select the spoken language for transcription. Each and every participant can select their own preferred caption language for translations

The translation doesn't include all dialects. A meeting or webinar can use a maximum of 5 unique caption languages at the same time.

We support 15 spoken languages for Webex Meetings, Webex Webinars (not available for webinars in webcast view), and meetings started from Webex App, without requiring a Real-time Translation license. However, if you want access to the 120+ caption languages, you'll need to have a Real-time translation license.

For free Webex account users, Webex Assistant or automated closed captions only include 5 spoken languages for transcription.

Webex for Government provides the default 5 spoken languages translated to 120+ caption languages.

Your site administrator must enable real-time translation for meetings and webinars.

You can generate the following types of post-meeting transcripts:

• A transcript embedded with the video recording. This transcript supports English transcription only.
• A transcript available on the post-meeting site page for the duration that recording is on AND Webex Assistant or Closed Captions is on. This transcript and any Webex Assistant highlights support transcription in all spoken languages (see Supported Languages below to see which languages are available to you).
  • To access this transcript, sign in your Webex account, click Calendar, then select Review.

On Webex App, if you prefer, turn on manual captioning and assign a captioner or use a manual captioning service to add captions to your meeting.

• Desktop
• Mobile

1	In a meeting or webinar, select Show closed captions.
2	Select Caption language and choose the desired language. Each participant can select their own preferred caption language for translations. The translation doesn't include all dialects. A meeting or webinar can use a maximum of five unique caption languages at the same time.

Supported languages

You can choose from 15 different spoken languages for your meetings or webinars, without requiring a Real-time Translation license. However, if you want access to the 120+ caption languages, you'll need to have a Real-time Translation license.

Webex for Government uses a slightly different language list for caption languages.

• Arabic
• Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)
• Chinese, Mandarin (Traditional)
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• French
• German
• Hindi
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Spanish

With a free Webex account, Webex assistant or automated closed captions only includes the following default spoken languages for transcription.

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Italian

Caption Languages:

Participants can select their own preferred caption language for translations. The translation doesn't include all dialects. A meeting or webinar can use a maximum of five unique caption languages at the same time.

Caption languages	Supported in Webex	Supported in Webex for Government
Afrikaans	✓	✓
Albanian	✓	✓
Amharic	✓	✓
Arabic	✓	✓
Armenian	✓	✓
Assamese	—	✓
Azerbaijani	✓	—
Azerbaijani (Latin)	—	✓
Bangla	—	✓
Bashkir	—	✓
Basque	✓	✓
Belarusian	✓	—
Bengali	✓	—
Bosnian	✓	—
Bosnian (Latin)	—	✓
Bulgarian	✓	✓
Cantonese (Traditional)	—	✓
Catalan	✓	✓
Cebuano	✓	—
Chinese (Literary)	—	✓
Chinese (Simplified)	✓	✓
Chinese (Traditional)	✓	✓
Chinese Simplified	✓	✓
Chinese Traditional	✓	✓
Corsican	✓	—
Croatian	✓	✓
Czech	✓	✓
Danish	✓	✓
Dari	—	✓
Divehi	—	✓
Dutch	✓	✓
English	✓	✓
Esperanto	✓	—
Estonian	✓	✓
Faroese	—	✓
Fijian	—	✓
Filipino	—	✓
Finnish	✓	✓
French	✓	✓
French (Canada)	—	✓
Frisian	✓	—
Galician	✓	✓
Georgian	✓	✓
German	✓	✓
Greek	✓	✓
Gujarati	✓	✓
Haitian Creole	✓	✓
Hausa	✓	—
Hawaiian	✓	—
Hebrew	✓	✓
Hindi	✓	✓
Hmong	✓	—
Hmong Daw (Latin)	—	✓
Hungarian	✓	✓
Icelandic	✓	✓
Igbo	✓	—
Indonesian	✓	✓
Inuinnaqtun	—	✓
Inuktitut	—	—
Inuktitut (Latin)	—	✓
Irish	✓	✓
Italian	✓	✓
Japanese	✓	✓
Javanese	✓	—
Kannada	✓	✓
Kazakh	✓	✓
Khmer	✓	✓
Kinyarwanda	✓	—
Korean	✓	✓
Kurdish	✓	—
Kurdish Kurmanji (Northern)	—	✓
Kurdish Sorani (Central)	—	✓
Kyrgyz	✓	—
Kyrgyz (Cyrillic)	—	✓
Lao	✓	✓
Latin	✓	—
Latvian	✓	✓
Lithuanian	✓	✓
Luxembourgish	✓	—
Macedonian	✓	✓
Malagasy	✓	✓
Malay	✓	—
Malay (Latin)	—	✓
Malayalam	✓	✓
Maltese	✓	✓
Maori	✓	✓
Marathi	✓	✓
Mongolian	✓	—
Mongolian (Cyrillic)	—	✓
Mongolian (Traditional)	—	✓
Myanmar	—	✓
Myanmar (Burmese)	✓	—
Nepali	✓	✓
Norwegian	✓	✓
Nyanja (Chichewa)	✓	—
Odia	✓	✓
Pashto	✓	✓
Persian	✓	✓
Polish	✓	✓
Portuguese (Brazil)	✓	✓
Portuguese (Portugal)	✓	✓
Punjabi	✓	✓
Queretaro Otomi	—	✓
Romanian	✓	✓
Russian	✓	✓
Samoan	✓	—
Samoan (Latin)	—	✓
Scots Gaelic	✓	—
Serbian	✓	—
Serbian (Cyrillic)	—	✓
Serbian (Latin)	—	✓
Sesotho	✓	—
Shona	✓	—
Sindhi	✓	—
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	✓	—
Slovak	✓	✓
Slovenian	✓	✓
Somali	✓	—
Somali (Arabic)	—	✓
Spanish	✓	✓
Sundanese	✓	—
Swahili	✓	—
Swahili (Latin)	—	✓
Swedish	✓	✓
Tagalog (Filipino)	✓	—
Tahitian	—	✓
Tajik	✓	—
Tamil	✓	✓
Tatar	✓	—
Tatar (Latin)	—	✓
Telugu	✓	✓
Thai	✓	✓
Tibetan	—	✓
Tigrinya	—	✓
Tongan	—	✓
Turkish	✓	✓
Turkmen	✓	—
Turkmen (Latin)	—	✓
Ukrainian	✓	✓
Upper Sorbian	—	✓
Urdu	✓	✓
Uyghur	✓	—
Uyghur (Arabic)	—	✓
Uzbek	✓	—
Uzbek (Latin)	—	✓
Vietnamese	✓	✓
Welsh	✓	✓
Xhosa	✓	—
Yiddish	✓	—
Yoruba	✓	—
Yucatec Maya	—	✓
Zulu	✓	✓
Caption languages

Known issues and limitations

Inuktitut isn’t supported for Webex for Government.

Real-time translation isn't supported on Webex App for web on the Webex Suite meeting platform.