Live captioning is a feature that displays a real-time text transcript of spoken audio during a virtual event, helping to improve accessibility for attendees who are deaf or hard of hearing, or who are participating in environments where audio is not available. This article clarifies the current status of live captioning within Zoho Backstage OnAir.
At present August 2026), live captioning is not available within Zoho Backstage OnAir and is not under active development. Hosts and speakers are therefore unable to enable automatic captions for sessions broadcast through OnAir at this time.
Live captioning is included on the Zoho Backstage product roadmap for a future release. Zoho will announce its availability through the official Zoho Backstage What's New page once the feature has been released. We recommend checking that page periodically for the latest product updates.