Webex Meetings Simultaneous Interpretation API Update

To further enable a more inclusive collaboration experience, Webex recently introduced the new Simultaneous Interpretation feature. For meetings and events like legal proceedings, business negotiations, or academic seminars you may need a live interpreter. This feature allows a Webex user to assign live interpreters to unlimited audio channels so that attendees can listen in the language of their choice.

For Scheduling a meeting with this feature, a host can use the same familiar interface in the Webex client or web version. Alternatively, the new Simultaneous Interpretation feature can be scheduled programmatically leveraging the Webex Meetings API. Below we will be going through some of the updated Webex API changes and how to use them to create and update a Webex Meeting.

Webex Rest API Samples

The Webex Meetings Rest API enables seamless integration of Webex Meetings into your websites and apps. You can schedule meetings, send meeting invitations, list meetings, and more. The full source code for this sample project is available on Github. You can also find many more samples/examples in the repository that is managed by the Webex Developer Evangelist team here.

Create a Meeting with Simultaneous Interpretation

To Schedule a Meeting, we can make some changes to the create portion of the CRUD Meeting sample code in the Webex REST API Samples repository. We will need to create a variable that we will call interpreterAry and use to store the array that will contain the list of Interpreter Objects needed to fulfill theinterpreters parameter in the simultaneousInterpretation object.

interpreterAry = [
    {"languageCode1":"en", "languageCode2":"es", "email":"jodoe@example.com", "displayName":"John Doe"},
    {"languageCode1":"es", "languageCode2":"en", "email":"jadoe@example.com", "displayName":"Jane Doe"}
  ];

In the above code snippet, the values for keys languagecode1 and languagecode2 are strings in standard language format for ISO-639-1. Interpreters will be translating from languagecode1 to languagecode2 for listeners that select this language from the associated channel options. The email value will be the interpreter’s email and a meeting invitation will be sent to this email address upon successful implementation of the API call that will contain this list. See the below code snippet for more details.

const body = JSON.stringify({
   title: 'WebDev Meeting w/ Simultaneous Interpretation', 
   start: '2022-08-12T13:51:43-04:00',            
   end: '2022-08-12T14:38:16-04:00',              
   simultaneousInterpretation: {"enabled":true,"interpreters":interpreterAry}
 });

The above code is a snippet of the body with required parameters title, start, and end. It includes the optional simultaneousInterpretation parameter with its key values enabled set to true and interpreters set with the array/list of interpreter objects that we previously built. Making these changes to the sample code should produce the same expected output with a status code of 200 and all expected response properties according to the documentation. The same code changes will produce similar results in the update code sample as well.

Try It Now

A copy of the create sample code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/WebexSamples/rest-api-samples/tree/main/meetings/create.

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