Polycom VSX Series manual Configuring Closed Captioning, Audio Options for Closed Captioners

Administrator’s Guide for the VSX Series

Configuring Closed Captioning

You can provide real-time text transcriptions or language translations of the video conference by displaying closed captions on your system. When you provide captions for a conference, the captioner uses a web browser to listen to the conference audio and enter the caption text in the system’s web interface. When the captioner sends a unit of text, all sites see it on the main monitor for 15 seconds. The text then disappears automatically.

Closed captions are supported between VSX systems with software version 7.0 or later.

Audio Options for Closed Captioners

When you provide captions for a conference, the captioner may be present, or may use a telephone or web browser to listen to the conference audio.

The captioner will need to receive all audio from the conference using one of the following methods:

•Attending one of the conferences sites

•Participating in the conference as an audio site

•Listening to the conference via VSX Web

•Listening to the conference via a speakerphone in the room at one of the sites

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