Setting Up Wordly For Hosting Zoom Meetings

If you want to host Wordy translation sessions in Zoom for your meeting participants, you'll need to:

• Install the Wordly App for Zoom.
• Link your Wordly App for Zoom to your Wordly account.
• Enable Live Streaming in your Zoom account.
• Maximizing Zoom sound for Wordly.

You can unlink your Wordly account at any time using the app.

 

Link With Your Wordly Account

You need to link the Wordly App for Zoom with your Wordly account if you want to host Wordly translation sessions during your Zoom meetings. Only a host with a linked Wordly account and enough available Wordly minutes can start a translation session.

To link your Wordly account to the Wordly App for Zoom

1. Open the Zoom desktop app and click Apps

2. Choose one of the options to link the account:

Link Accounts

Select this option if the Wordly App for Zoom detects that your Zoom email address is being used by a Wordly account. Click the Link button to link to the Wordly account.

Sign in to Wordly

Select this option if you have a Wordly account but it uses a different email address than your Zoom account. Click the Sign In button. This opens the Wordly login page in your Web browser where you can sign in normally. Once you have signed in, Wordly links your account and returns you back to Zoom.

Register with Wordly

Select this option if you have don't have a Wordly account yet. Click Register. This opens the Wordly registration page in your Web browser where you can create a new account. It's free to sign up for Wordly and you'll receive some free Wordly minutes for your first meeting. 

Once you've created the account, Wordly sets up the account, links it with the Wordly App for Zoom, and then returns you back to Zoom.

Enable Live streaming

The Wordly App for Zoom needs access to the audio from your Zoom meeting so that it can listen to the speakers and translate what they are saying for the other participants. 

The app uses the Live streaming feature in Zoom to access your Zoom audio. You need to enable Live streaming before you can host your first Wordly translation session.

To enable live streaming

1. In your internet browser, sign into Zoom.
2. Locate Live stream under the settings. (For more information about Zoom navigation, see Zoom support.)           
3. Make sure that live streaming is turned on.
4. Select Custom Live Streaming Service and type Wordly into the text field.

Unlinking Accounts

You can unlink your Wordly account at any time using the app.

To unlink your Wordly account

1. Open the Wordly App for Zoom in the main Zoom window.
2. Click the My Account menu found in the top right.
3. Click Unlink Wordly Account and click Unlink in the dialog window.

After unlinking your Wordly account, you can link to the same Wordly account or a different one.