February Updates (2): Caption Control & Subtitle Customization

Cleaner captions, more control, more flexible customization — providing the best environment for real-time meetings

In the second February update, we strengthened caption control features and user customization options so you can manage real-time meetings and events more professionally. With the caption reset button, caption position adjustment, multilingual glossary upload, and the ability to hide the original text, you can now manage real-time interpretation captions much more flexibly.

EventCAT Conference: Instant caption reset

Added “Clear Caption” button to caption overlay

Would you like to directly control captions during a conference?
 When using the caption overlay feature, you can now manually reset the content of the live caption window by clicking the newly added Clear Caption button.

✔ How to set it up:

1. On the Conference preview screen, click the ⚙️ Settings button in the top right
2. Enable the Caption Overlay feature

      3. When the Clear Caption button appears, click to reset the caption window

✔ This feature is available in the following plans:

• Half-day Pass
  
  

• All-day Pass
  
  

• Advanced Customization Plan
  
  

This feature is only activated in sessions using one of these plans, and it can be applied after clicking the Start Session button.

OnlineMeeting: Caption position setting

Choose “Top” or “Bottom” for real-time translation captions

Now in OnlineMeeting, you can choose where captions are displayed on the screen.
 Provide a more natural and comfortable viewing experience that matches the participant’s reading flow.

✔ How to set it up:

1. On the OnlineMeeting preview screen, click the ⚙️ Settings button

2. Under New Sentence Placement, choose Top or Bottom

✔ Related article:

• Can I Control Where Subtitles Appear in OnlineMeeting? 

Conference: Upload up to 4 glossaries

Flexible glossary management for diverse topics and speakers

If you need to support multiple topics and presenters in a multilingual meeting, you can now select up to 4 glossaries per session.

✔ Update details:

• Upload up to 4 glossary sheets per session
  
  

• Each glossary sheet can contain up to 50 rows (previously 200) for improved performance and cleaner management
  
  

✔ Related articles:

• How to create a glossary in EventCAT 
  

• What is the EventCAT Glossary? 
  

OnlineMeeting: Hide original captions

Hide the source text and show only the translated captions

If only translated captions need to be shown, you can use the option to hide the original spoken language.
 This makes the screen cleaner and helps participants focus on the translation, improving meeting engagement.

✔ How to set it up:

1. On the OnlineMeeting preview screen, click the ⚙️ Settings button
   
   

2. Enable the option Hide Speaking Language
   

This feature provides a clearer screen, especially for participants who only want to see the interpreted captions.

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