How to enable/disable transcription in Jitsi Meetings

[mdhanif-simformsolutions]

What happened?

We are using Jitsi SDK in our Android/iOS/Web platforms and it is working great so far.

Currently, I need to enable transcription in and Android/iOS/Web platforms we are having all of the server things set up and our transcription is getting enabled by our config.js in which we have this :-

transcription: {
        enabled: true,
        translationLanguages: ['en', 'es'],
        translationLanguagesHead: ['en'],
    }

But this transcription only works when we enable recording/subtitles from the Jitsi meeting menu, and if do enable this using feature flags like setFeatureFlag(recording.enabled, true) at that time transcriber is not enabled.

Also I don't see any of the featureFlags listed for transcription over here :- https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/react/features/base/flags/constants.ts

Now what I need is a flag or something with which I can set if I want to enable transcription by default or no.

Platform

• Chrome (or Chromium based)
• Firefox
• Safari
• Other desktop browser
• Android browser
• iOS browser
• Electron app
• Android mobile app
• iOS mobile app
• Custom app using a mobile SDK

Browser / app / sdk version

9.2.2

Relevant log output

No response

Reproducibility

• The problem is reproducible on meet.jit.si

More details?

No response

[Calinteodor]

FIrst, you need to update to latest. You are using a pretty old SDK version. Latest is 10.3.0.
Second, please check the full transcription object in config right here
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/config.js#L455.

[mdhanif-simformsolutions]

I understand sdk Version is little old but I don't think that can be a issue.

Also as I mentioned in the description it get's enabled when starting recording from the Jitsi menu when we start recording/subtitles but what I need is to also start transcription automatically when I start the meeting.

[saghul]

A lot of transcription related things have changed in the last few months. You need to update.

Transcriptions are not enabled automatically from the client, you'll need a server plugin for that.

[sahil-saini-18]

I also want to achieve the same functionality of enabling transcription automatically in the Jitsi SDK for Android.

I am using docker-jitsi-meet stable-9779, Could you please guide me on the server plugins or the changes I need to make on the server side to enable transcription automatically when starting a meeting?

[saghul]

We don't maintain such a plugin. I though there was one at https://github.com/jitsi-contrib/prosody-plugins but I was mistaken. Perhaps you can copy jibri_autostart and adapt it to start transcriptions instead.