Zoom's live transcript feature allows you to provide students with an automatic transcript of what you or others are saying during a class. This is designed to support students who may have any auditory difficulties and ensure that they are included in the learning process.

To turn on Zoom's live transcript feature in class, complete the following steps.


  1. During a Zoom meeting, click Live Transcript.
  2. Click Enable Auto-Transcription. This enables the transcription feature and the transcript will begin appear in the main zoom area.
  3. If you want to adjust how this live transcript appears to students, click on the arrow to the right of Live Transcript in the menu in Zoom and select Subtitle Settings.
    4. Note: The arrow to the right of Live Transcript only displays if auto-transcription is enabled.

  4. From here, you can identify how large or small the subtitles for the transcript should appear by clicking and dragging the Closed Captioning slider towards Small or Large.
  5. You can also choose to display a full transcript of the class. To do so, click on the arrow to the right of the Live Transcript in the menu in Zoom and select View Full Transcript. The transcript displays in the right-hand side of the Zoom window.
  6. To download a copy of the transcript, click Save Transcript at the bottom of this area.


Zoom also automatically provides an audio transcript of recordings that you create. This appears for both you and students when you access your recording.

To access a transcript of a Zoom recording, complete the following steps.

  1. Log on to https://telcit.zoom.us/
  2. Click Recordings.
  3. Under Topic, click the name of the meeting that you want to access the transcript of.
  4. Click Audio transcript to download the transcript.

Note: The transcript of the recording is available some time after the recording itself is available. You may see the information that the audio transcript is Transcribing in the recording area until the transcript is available.