Jitsi voice transcription to text / Enhancement or do we already have an option to enable it from a Jitsi room ?

[ClaudeStabile]

Is there a way to enable transcription on some specific room only. Or better to enable it after joining a jitsi room. And option within the console would also be a great feature.
Currently if my understanding is correct, if we enable transcrption this is done and activated for all Jitsi conf on the OF server. There is a button to disable it within the conf but ideally i would like to have the contrary, enable transcriptions on the Fly
This is a very expected feature as we can transcribe only slice of conferences or whatever we want.

[gjaekel]

I also discovered this recenty, and the same holds for "Display Message as Captions": There's no difference between enabling the feature and the initial state - if the feature is enabled, its switchable by the user. But the initial state is also enabled.

I also suggest to have a second option with the initial state.

[ClaudeStabile]

@gjaekel Initial state could be great. If we can switch on and off from the Jitsi room, it would be a great enhancement. If we can toggle it on with a special shortcut even greater. You may also need to enable language chooser so transcribing from language you are speaking in that room. ++ Thanks a lot in adv for taking the point

[gjaekel]

You already may switch both features via the Conference Captions Dialog.

I already add Hotkeys and a Message Autohide, compare to Issue #299/PR #336 and #341

[deleolajide]

Is there a way to enable transcription on some specific room only.

At the moment, not yet. However If you install the rawproperties plugin,

You can add new properties to each MUC room

Pade can then look for a property called ofmeet.voice transcription and enable transcription if the value is true

[ClaudeStabile]

@gjaekel

I tried this hint.
I have created a room named voice2text on my server https://www.free-solutions.org/Voice2Text and added property as suggested
but still no transcription. No emmergency i was just trying out, i am always curious.

If you can add option within the Jitsi room it will be a huge steps ahead :)

[deleolajide]

You can now apply interface_config properties to specific rooms by adding them as MUC room properties.
For example, to enable transcriptions, set OFMEET_ENABLE_TRANSCRIPTION to true.

[gjaekel]

You can now apply interface_config properties to specific rooms by adding them as MUC room properties.

.. in a generic way, i.e. any properties to any room. Is this expandable to the config properties, too?

[gjaekel]

But in spite of that, I should going to add a second configurable properity for the initial state - something like startWithCaptionsEnabled and startWithTranscriptionEnabled, right?

[deleolajide]

Is this expandable to the config properties, too?

Only working with OFMEET interface_config properties. It will require more work to use config. You would have to test to see how it behaves for Jitsi properties. I think it will be too late to take effect.

[gjaekel]

It's a smart new thing, anyway! It will allow to setup rooms with different characteristics.

[ClaudeStabile]

Congrats @deleolajide for this already a big step ahead :)

I will try this out on one of my server. That's really cool as it open new possibility to differentiate room behaviour.
thanks a lot also @gjaekel for pusshing this and interest

++ Thanks a lot for efforts