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Had a Google hangouts meeting with a US and an AU participant, and I'm from Sweden, and amazingly enough Hangouts (or is it Meet now?) can provide close to real
by retSava 6y ago
Had a Google hangouts meeting with a US and an AU participant, and I'm from Sweden, and amazingly enough Hangouts (or is it Meet now?) can provide close to real-time closed captions (subtitles), with a very high degree of accuracy. It also shows who is saying something, so subs may be,
PartA: Who's going?
PartB: I'm going.
PartC: When is it?
What boggles my mind is why it doesn't immediately after the meeting end, Hangout would send you a transcript of the meeting. This would be a crazy USP.
- hvidgaard 6y agoMy experience with captions is that it fails hilariously when the person speaking is not a native speaker and not completely fluent. You will understand the point they're making with reasonable accuracy, but if you only read the captions you would not have anywhere near the same understanding it at all.
- adrusi 6y agoPeople expect there to be no log for phonecalls, and that extends to video calls. Google might well keep a log for themselves, but if they sent it to participants, they would alienate many of them.
- retSava 6y agoPeople take notes in meetings all the time, and this Google product is for professionals in meetings, not the consumer product. Sorry for being unclear.
- Foivos 6y agoI think the option to save the transcript is available only to the organiser of the call.
- retSava 6y agoI was the organizer but didn't see it. Another coming up in 3 minutes, will look closer this time!
- Foivos 6y agoI checked the online documentation again and there is no mention of recording the live captions now. I am very confident that, a few months ago, this option was there for the call organisers.