Digital Interpreter and Translation
The Digital Interpreter helps participants who speak different languages to communicate with each other. All participants decide which language they speak. The digital interpreter automatically translates what is said into the chosen language.
The Digital Interpreter Feature must be enabled by moderators or room administrators in order to be available to participants.
Digital Interpreter
If enabled, you can find the Digital Interpreter in the Secondary menu under 
Live Transcription.
The Digital Interpreter helps you to follow multilingual conversations. You select the language you want to speak. The spoken word is displayed in the language you selected.
Selecting a language
The language selection is located at the top of the Digital Interpreter tab. The selection can be updated at any time:
- Click on the drop-down menu next to Your spoken language. If you have previously selected a language, the drop-down menu will display a country code.
Depending on the room administrator’s settings, you can choose from different languages.
- Click on the language you speak. The selected language will immediately change.
- You can now speak in your language and the spoken word will appear as transcribed text.
If the participants are speaking in a language other than the language you are using, their spoken words will be displayed in the language you have selected.
Settings
You can adjust the following settings for the Digital Interpreter:
Click on the Font size icon to adjust the font size of the text. Each click increases the font size by one size.
You can copy the text from the Digital Interpreter. To do this, click on the Copy to clipboard icon. The text will be copied to your clipboard. Paste it into a text program of your choice.
You can hide your own spoken text. To do this, click on the Hide own text icon. The transcription of your own spoken word will no longer be visible in the Digital Interpreter tab. Instead, you can only see the text of the other participants’ spoken word.
Translation
The Digital Interpreter currently only supports the spoken languages English, German and Spanish. The spoken word can therefore be translated into various other languages.
To use this feature, click on Live Transcription in the Secondary menu and then click on the Translation tab.
Selecting a translation language
- Click on the button at the top of the Translation tab.
- Select the language you want the spoken word to be translated into.
The translation will now appear in the sidebar in your selected language. You can change the selected language at any time. The conversation will be translated retroactively into the new language.
Tip: View the Digital Interpreter and translation at the same time:
- Move your mouse over the left edge of the Live Transcription tab. The pointer will change to a double-headed arrow.
- Hold the left mouse button and drag the tab to the left until the Digital Interpreter and Translation tabs are displayed side by side.
Settings for moderators
Moderators can start and stop the Digital Interpreter and can choose between the transcription types Digital Interpreter and the Live-Transcription. While the Live-Transcription is limited to one spoken language in the room, the Digital Interpreter allows participants to choose their individual preferred spoken language.
Selecting a transcription type
Select the transcription type as the first step:
- Open the settings by clicking on the
Transcription options icon at the bottom of the tab. - Then click on the Digital Interpreter option.
- Close the menu with a second click on the Transcription options icon.
You are now ready to start the Digital Interpreter in your alfaview room.
Starting the Digital Interpreter
Click on the button, to start the Digital Interpreter. Once activated, every word spoken in the room will be logged and translated.
Stopping the Digital Interpreter
Click on the button, to stop the Digital Interpreter. Once the feature is disabled, logging and translation will stop.
Settings for room administrators
Room administrators can also control which languages participants can choose from.
Selecting spoken languages
- Open the Live-Transcription tab in the Secondary menu.
- Click on the Transcription options icon in the Digital Interpreter tab.
- Click on Update available language.
- The meeting language menu offers you the following languages:
- German
- English
- Spanish
- Tick the box of each language you wish to activate in your alfaview room.
Selecting translation languages
- Open the Live-Transcription tab in the Secondary menu.
- Click on the Translation options icon in the Translation tab.
- Click on Update available languages.
- Tick the box of each language you wish to activate in your alfaview room (a maximum of three translation languages at the same time). There are 30 different languages to choose from.
Last updated on February 10th, 2025, 04:31 pm