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Using closed captions

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When you attend a meeting hosted by someone from Amazon, you can view machine-generated closed captions. You can start and stop the captions at any time during the meeting. You can also adjust the settings for closed captions, such as language and font size. The following sets of steps explain how.

To show or hide closed captions
  1. On the left control bar, choose Closed captions ( An icon of a box surrounding the letters CC. ).

  2. In the Language Preference dialog box, open the Language list and choose your language.

  3. Choose OK.

The captions appear at the bottom of the meeting window.

To adjust the caption settings
  1. Repeat step 1 in the previous set of steps.

  2. In the upper-right corner of closed-caption box, choose Caption settings (the gear icon).

    The following list describes the settings.

    Use machine generated caption for all my meetings

    When selected, closed captions automatically start for all meetings hosted by someone at Amazon. You can turn the captions off at any time during a meeting.

    Language for my meetings

    Open the list and select a default language. That language will apply to all closed captions until you change it.

    Caption type size

    Select a comfortable font size from the list.

    Caption type color

    Select a color from the list.

  3. When finished, choose OK.

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