Zoom's live captioning feature will soon work with 30 languages

Zoom held its annual Zoomtoopia conference today, providing a glimpse at some of the features its working on bringing to its video conferencing software. There are almost too many enhancements to count, but some of the more notable ones have the potential to change how you use the service.

The first of those is an expansion of Zoom's automated closed captioning system. At the start of the year, Zoomannouncedit was making the feature available to all of its users by the fall of 2021. Now, the company plans to make it work in a total of 30 languages. Its also adding live translation support for 12 languages. Both expansions will occur over the next year and come after the companybought a startupthat specializes in real-time translation.

Zoom is also working on an expandedWhiteboard experiencethat will make the feature available on the web and outside of meetings and calls. To that end, youll find a separate Whiteboard tab once the experience rolls out in beta later this year. Then, sometime next year, Zoom plans to work with Facebook to bring its video conferencing software and Whiteboard feature to the companysHorizon Workroomsto allow you to access them both in virtual reality.

Zoom is also working on several smaller but still notable features. For instance, support for end-to-end encryption is coming toZoom Phone, which will allow you to keep phone calls you make over Zoom secure. Check out thecompanys blog postto see everything its working on at the moment.