This article is about Webex Meetings. 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, but 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 real-time translation as a paid add-on for Webex Meetings, Webex Webinars (it is not available for webinars in webcast view), and meetings started from Webex App. Meetings started or joined from a space in Webex App don't support real-time translation. As long as the host has an active Real-time translation license, guests can access this feature.

By default, 5 spoken languages are provided. With the real-time translation add-on, we support 13 spoken languages translated to 100+ caption languages. Webex for Government provides the default 5 spoken languages translated to 100+ 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.

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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.
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Tap More options > Closed Captions .

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Toggle on Closed Captions.

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Tap Choose Language and select the language you want to translate speech.

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.
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Exit out of the options to save these settings.

Supported languages

By default, Webex Assistant or automated closed captions includes the following spoken languages for transcription:

  • English

  • French

  • German

  • Spanish

  • Italian

The Real-time Translation license includes the following additional spoken languages, as well as 100+ caption languages. Webex for Government doesn't include the spoken language expansion, but does expand the available caption languages. Webex for Government uses a slightly different language list for caption languages.

Additional spoken languages:

  • Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)

  • Chinese, Mandarin (Traditional)

  • Dutch

  • Hindi

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Polish

  • Portuguese

Caption Languages:

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.

Table 1. Caption languages
Caption languagesSupported in WebexSupported 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 ✓ ✓
Known issues and limitations

Inuktitut is not supported for Webex for Government.