Administrator’s Guide for ViewStationEX, ViewStation FX, and VS4000
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Displaying Closed Captions
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 for IP or ISDN point-to-point calls between these
systems:
❑ViewStation SP, MP, V.35/RS-449/RS-530 systems with software version 6.5 or
later
❑ViewStationFX or VS4000 with software version 2.5 or later
To supply closed captions for a conference:
1. On a PC, open a web browser.
2. In the browser address line, enter the IP address of the system, for example,
http://255.255.255.255, to go to the system’s web interface.
3. Click Show Closed Caption.
4. Log in using this information:
User Name: Your nam e.
Password: Meeting password defined for your video conferencing system.
5. In the Closed Captioning screen, type the caption text into the Current field.
You can enter up to 250 characters per line.
6. Press Enter to send the text to the sites in the conference.
The text is also added to the History field of the Closed Captioning screen.