• Closed captioning isn’t available in space-backed meetings.

  • With closed captioning, you can see a maximum 3x3 view with the Grid layout.

All participants can choose whether they want to have closed captioning on the screen of their own device. Tap the Captions button from the call controls, and toggle closed captioning on or off.

Supported languages

Don't speak the language? You can now choose to translate from English to one of the 100+ languages that are supported on the RoomOS devices. We also support translation from 13 languages to English.

Real-time translation is an add-on, and purchase of this feature will include the Webex Assistant subscription.

By default, 5 spoken languages for transcription are included for free to users with Webex Assistant or automated closed captions:

  • English

  • French

  • German

  • Spanish

  • Italian

With the Real-time Translation license , these features are expanded to 13 total spoken languages and 100+ caption languages.

Spoken Languages:

  • Chinese, Mandarin (Simplified)

  • Chinese, Mandarin (Traditional)

  • Dutch

  • Hindi

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Polish

  • Portuguese


The maximum number of unique caption languages that can be used at the same time in a meeting or webinar is five. Not all dialects are included in translation.

Caption Languages:

  • Afrikaans

  • Albanian

  • Amharic

  • Arabic

  • Armenian

  • Azerbaijani

  • Basque

  • Belarusian

  • Bengali

  • Bosnian

  • Bulgarian

  • Catalan

  • Cebuano

  • Chinese (Simplified)

  • Chinese (Traditional)

  • Corsican

  • Croatian

  • Czech

  • Danish

  • Dutch

  • English

  • Esperanto

  • Estonian

  • Finnish

  • French

  • Frisian

  • Galician

  • Georgian

  • German

  • Greek

  • Gujarati

  • Haitian

  • Creole

  • Hausa

  • Hawaiian

  • Hebrew

  • Hindi

  • Hmong

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Igbo

  • Indonesian

  • Irish

  • Italian

  • Japanese

  • Javanese

  • Kannada

  • Kazakh

  • Khmer

  • Kinyarwanda

  • Korean

  • Kurdish

  • Kyrgyz

  • Lao

  • Latin

  • Latvian

  • Lithuanian

  • Luxembourgish

  • Macedonian

  • Malagasy

  • Malay

  • Malayalam

  • Maltese

  • Maori

  • Marathi

  • Mongolian

  • Myanmar (Burmese)

  • Nepali

  • Norwegian

  • Nyanja (Chichewa)

  • Odia

  • Pashto

  • Persian

  • Polish

  • Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil)

  • Punjabi

  • Romanian

  • Russian

  • Samoan

  • Scots Gaelic

  • Serbian

  • Sesotho

  • Shona

  • Sindhi

  • Sinhala (Sinhalese)

  • Slovak

  • Slovenian

  • Somali

  • Spanish

  • Sundanese

  • Swahili

  • Swedish

  • Tagalog (Filipino)

  • Tajik

  • Tamil

  • Tatar

  • Telugu

  • Thai

  • Turkish

  • Turkmen

  • Ukranian

  • Urdu

  • Uyghur

  • Uzbek

  • Vietnamese

  • Welsh

  • Xhosa

  • Yiddish

  • Yoruba

  • Zulu