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Closed Captioning With Zoom Rooms Follow

Overview

Closed Captioning allows a Zoom Room to view closed captions if they are available for the meeting.

This article covers:

Enable as an Admin
View Closed Captions in a Meeting

Prerequisites

Zoom Rooms for Mac or PC/Touch version 3.6x and higher (view caption only)
Zoom Rooms iPad controller version 3.6x and higher
Zoom Rooms Android Controller version 1.0.16326.1205 or higher
Meeting with Closed Caption in use

Enable as an Admin

Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
Click Room Management > Zoom Rooms.
Click Edit for the Zoom Room you want to enable closed captioning for.
Select Meeting Settings.
Select Show More Settings.
Under In Meeting (Advanced), toggle Closed Caption to on.

View Closed Captions in a Meeting

On the controller, you will see CC appear on the settings icon when Closed Captions are available for a meeting.
Click on Settings and toggle Closed Caption to on.
You can adjust the text size. Closed Captions will now appear on the Zoom Room display.