One year after acquiring MT startup, Zoom launches translation feature

收购MT初创公司一年后，Zoom推出翻译功能

Zoom announced earlier this month that it will be rolling out a machine translation (MT) feature along with a suite of additional offerings in its new Zoom One package.

本月月初，Zoom宣布其将在新的Zoom One套餐中推出机器翻译(MT)功能以及一系列附加服务。

The announcement comes just about a year after the San Jose-based video communication company acquired Kites, a German startup focused on developing MT solutions. At the time of the acquisition, Zoom’s president of product and engineering said that MT would be the “key in enhancing our platform for Zoom customers across the globe.” Now, Zoom will allow users to translate meetings between English and ten different languages.

就在一年前，这家总部位于圣何塞的视频通信公司收购了一家专注于开发机器翻译解决方案的德国初创公司Kites。在收购时，Zoom的产品和工程总裁表示，机器翻译将是“增强我们为Zoom全球客户提供平台的关键”。现在，Zoom将允许用户将会议翻译成英语和十种不同的语言。

Bi-directional translations will be available between English and Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Dutch, and Ukrainian — it’s likely however, that the company will add more languages to its offerings. In September 2021, the company announced that it was planning to launch a translation feature for 12 languages. To start out, the translation feature will only be available for users who purchase the Business Plus, and Enterprise Plus packages of Zoom One.

该服务将提供英语和简体中文、西班牙语、法语、德语、意大利语、日语、韩语、俄语、荷兰语和乌克兰语之间的双向翻译——然而，该公司很可能会增加更多的语言。2021年9月，该公司宣布计划推出12种语言的翻译功能。首先，翻译功能只对购买了Zoom One的Business Plus和Enterprise Plus套装的用户开放。

As users speak in one of the above languages, translated captions will appear at the bottom of the window — at the moment, Zoom only allows for direct translation between English and another language.

当用户讲上述提到的一种语言，翻译字幕将出现在窗口的底部-目前，Zoom只允许英语和另一种语言之间的直接翻译。

Zoom One allows users to access much of Zoom’s features — text chat, video and phone calls, and the whiteboard — within a single offering. Along with the aforementioned options, users can also access a Basic version for free, and Pro, Business, and Enterprise versions as well. These, however, do not have access to the translation feature at the moment.

Zoom One允许用户在一个单一的产品中访问Zoom的大部分功能——文本聊天、视频和电话以及白板。除了上述选项，用户还可以免费访问基本版，以及专业版、商业版和企业版。然而，这些目前还不具备翻译功能。

“As the Zoom platform has evolved from a meeting app to a comprehensive communications platform, it was clear that introducing new packaging like Zoom One was the next step in the company’s evolution,” Greg Tomb, Zoom’s president said.

Zoom总裁格雷格·特姆（Greg Tomb）表示：“随着Zoom平台从一个会议应用程序发展为一个综合通信平台，很明显，推出像Zoom One这样的新包装是公司发展的下一步。”

In addition to the translation feature, Zoom is also expanding its automatic captioning technology to include more languages. While the platform originally only supported live transcription in English, Zoom One’s Business Plus, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus versions will also include the ability to access live transcriptions in ten new languages.

除了翻译功能，Zoom还将其自动字幕技术扩展到更多语言。虽然该平台最初只支持英语的实时转录，但Zoom One的Business Plus、Enterprise和Enterprise Plus版本也将支持10种新语言的实时转录。