Fact · Transcription
Zoom's whitepaper says that when captions are enabled, Zoom uses automatic speech recognition to turn spoken meeting audio into caption text that participants see during the meeting.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“When enabled, Zoom uses automatic speech recognition to convert spoken audio into dynamic caption text”
Zoom AI Features whitepaper, Zoom, 2026, Speech-to-text, Captions.
Open the original- What it measures
- The whitepaper describes Zoom's speech-to-text as one capability across the platform. Captions are one use of it, and they convert the audio that the meeting hears, not text typed by one person.
- What it does not show
- The whitepaper does not describe a dictation feature for writing into chat or other text fields.