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Enable Live Captions in Vonage Video Using Symbl.ai

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses adding transcription/closed captioning to a Vonage Video application, leveraging Symbl.ai's web SDK. The goal is to provide accessibility and insights into video calls. To achieve this, the application uses a custom React hook called `useSymblai`, which abstracts away the complexity of opening a WebSocket connection with Symbl.ai. The hook returns captions, the other party's captions, and the name of the speaker. The application also sets up a preferences context to store user information, such as username and conversation ID. The custom hook uses React hooks like `useState` and `useEffect` to manage state and side effects. The text concludes by mentioning additional features provided by Symbl.ai, including sentiment analysis, insights extraction, summary of the call, analytics, and more.

Company
Vonage

Date published
Dec. 13, 2021

Author(s)
Javier Molina Sanz

Word count
2170

Language
English

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