

Once the meeting ends, you will no longer be able to view the transcript unless your instructor chooses to share it with you. In addition to viewing the transcript, you can copy words or sentences into your personal notes, or request access to review the transcript after the Zoom session has ended. You and other meeting participants can resize the Otter transcription and Zoom meeting windows to position them side-by-side. Clicking the Live button and selecting View Stream on Otter.ai will open a new window displaying the live transcript from the Otter website. When your instructor has Otter enabled within Zoom, you will see a “Live on Otter.ai” icon in the top left corner of the screen. In this article we will demonstrate how students can use Otter to improve the learning process. Students can follow a transcript of meetings in real time, which can help improve knowledge retention and understanding of conversations when Zooming from a noisy environment, and provide aide to students with disabilities and ESL students. UCSF does not provide Otter licenses to students, however students can use the free version of Otter to view their instructor's shared transcripts and more. Otter is a live transcription and captioning tool used by UCSF academic faculty to provide live transcription during Zoom sessions.
