Rehearse before the day

Where the button is

In the setup, on the step that offers you the download, above those cards. It also sits on the meeting's own page, so you can run it again later without walking back through the setup. The button says See what your attendees will see.

Press it and the card shows the QR square and the link to open on a phone, a line reading Playing a rehearsal while it runs, and a Stop beside it. Point your own phone at the square, choose a language, and read along. That is the whole thing, and it takes about a minute.

What you are looking at

The real reader, not a picture of one. About twenty lines of a scripted session arrive a few seconds apart, translated the same way a live room is translated, with the half-finished line at the bottom that a live room also shows. Choose a different language on the phone and the rehearsal follows, because that is the same choice your attendees will make.

The sentences are written for this. They are about Frasiey, in plain English, and nobody is speaking them anywhere.

The banner is the point

Every phone reading a rehearsal carries a line that does not go away: This is a rehearsal. Nobody is speaking in a room. Send the link to a colleague and they cannot mistake it for the meeting, which is why it stays on screen rather than appearing once and fading.

What a rehearsal is not

• It never opens a microphone. Not on your computer, not on a room laptop, not anywhere. There is nothing to permit and nothing to plug in.
• There is no recording of anyone. The sentences are a written script, not speech, so no audio of you, of your speakers or of your rooms exists to be kept.
• It is never billed. A rehearsal does not touch your free hours, does not reach an invoice, and is not counted anywhere that money is counted.
• It does not count as your first real captions. The setup still waits to hear a room for real before it calls that step done, so a rehearsal cannot talk you into thinking a room has been tested.

One at a time, and stopping it

A room plays one rehearsal at a time. Press the button again and it starts over from the first line rather than running two at once. It stops itself at the end of the script, and Stop ends it at any point.

If a laptop in that room is captioning for real, the live room wins: Frasiey leaves it alone and tells you the room is busy. Use another room, or wait until the session ends.