Google Meet: improve and change some features in livestreams

What is changing?

Google is improving now live streams for Google Meet with 2 new features:

• Live streams between multiple domains: Previously, only guests within your organization could watch live streams. Admins can now specify Google domains Workspace Reliable for Google Meet live streams. Once added, you can also invite users in those trusted domains to watch live streams produced by your organization.
• Live streams subtitles: Users now have the option to enable subtitles when starting a live stream. At launch, subtitles for live streams will be available in English, German, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Note that the subtitles available for video calls on Google Meet..

Who is affected?

Admins and end users

Why it’s important

Many companies have important meetings that require getting the message across to large groups of people, such as a hands-on training or company-wide briefing. With live streaming for Google Meet, up to 100,000 users (or 10,000 in some versions) can watch the meeting from the web or their mobile device.

Live streams between multiple domains allows you to expand your audience of live streams not only to guests in your organization, but also to guests in another trusted Workspace domain.

Subtitles in live streams may make it more accessible to deaf or hard of hearing users, and may help other users who would rather read the text than hear more from the meeting.

Getting started

• Admins:
  • Cross-domain live streams support: Use the content in Google's Help Center to learn how add a trusted domain for live streaming in Google Meet.
    • Note that you can add any Workspace domain to the list of trusted domains, but Google recommends adding only domains that you own (such as subsidiaries or schools in your area), because adding domains can give access to live streams to anyone with accounts in those trusted domains.
• Subtitles in live streams: There is no admin control over this feature.
• Please visit Google's Help Center to Learn more about enabling or disabling live streaming for your organization.
• End users:
  • Cross-domain live streams support: Available if allowed by your administrator. If yes, use Google's Help Center to learn about how to live streams video meetings.
  • Subtitles in live streams: This feature is available by default to all users with live streams available. To use captions in live streams at a specific meeting, meeting participants must first enable live streams captions from the main meeting. Use Google's Help Center to learn more about using subtitles with live stream.

Rollout pace

Live streams between multiple domains

• Rapid release domain: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting June 30, 2021
• Scheduled release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting July 12, 2021

Availability

• Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus
• Not applicable to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Education Fundamentals, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers

Source: Gimasys