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WebEx should include an option to produce UNIFIED text file that combines Chat text and Automatic Closed-caption text (in the order it appeared during the call)

(This applies to the desktop/browser/mobile app WebEx clients)

When saving text from the call (either from Chat or Auto-Closed-Captioning) WebEx needs to be able to provide the option of downloading a text record that INTEGRATES BOTH: text from the CHAT ALL messages *AND* the text created by the AUTO-Closed Captioning function.

At the end of the call, the user could be with the following choices:

Do you want to download a text transcript of this meeting?:

  • Download Chat messages only

  • Download Closed Caption text only

  • Download BOTH as SEPARATE files

  • Download BOTH in a SINGLE transcript file

  • Do not download text transcript

Selecting the FOURTH option above would result in the creation of an INTEGRATED transcript text file that would look like this:

<file begins>
June 26, 2022 at 1:57:49 PM EDT: Meeting began

  • 2:00:33 Chat capture was enabled

  • 2:00:34 Automatic Closed-Caption was enabled

  • 2:05:13 Smith, John said: "zzzzz zzzzz zzzz zzz"

  • 2:05:45 Jones, Tony chatted: "zzzz zz zzzz"

  • 2:06:17 Smith, John said: "z zzz zz zzzzzz"

  • 2:06:25 Smith, John said: "zzzzzzz z zzzzzzzzzzz"

  • 2:08:17 Smith, John said: "z zzz zz zzzzzz"

  • 2:13:31 Cook, Edwina chatted: "zzz zzzzzz zz z"

  • etc...

  • 2:45:03 Chat capture was disabled

  • 2:45:03 Automatic Closed-Caption was disabled

  • 2:54:14 Chat capture was enabled

  • 2:54:15 Automatic Closed-Caption was enabled

  • 2:54:45 Smith, John said: "z zzz zz zzzzzz"

  • 2:45:45 Tremblay, Sue chatted: "zzzz zz zzzz"

  • 2:06:17 Smith, John said: "z zzz zz zzzzzz"

  • etc...

June 26, 2022 at 2:55:39 PM EDT: Meeting ended

<file ends>

NOTE: For simplicity and to preserve privacy, only chat messages to ALL participants on the call (and not any private direct chat messages) would be the included in the chat message transcript that get integrated into the closed caption text.

  • W. John Ruffing
  • Feb 4 2022