Take Control of Zoom, 2nd Edition

Add AI Transcription and Captioning

So-called artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived, but in the usual unexpected form. Instead of an electronic brain capable of all tasks, the most-advanced AI comes in the form of deep learning, a way to train an algorithm to pick things that are very like other things. This lets machine-learning systems identify cats in photos, predict upcoming weather conditions based on radar imagery, and turn spoken words into text—all with shockingly good accuracy.

There are three general types of AI-based conversion of speech into text available:

• Live transcriptions: While people talk, the service creates a transcript which can be viewed as it’s created. It’s often just concatenating live captioning, but it typically ...