Many people rely on subtitles for audio or video content, but not every media site provides them. The “Live Caption” feature is integrated into the Google Chrome browser and works anywhere. We will show you how to use this useful feature.
Google Chrome itself can create captions for any video or audio-only content played in the web browser. It works in the same way as the real-time caption on Google Pixel phones. At the time of writing, the resource was available in English only.
To enable Live Caption, open Google Chrome on your Windows 10, Mac or Linux computer and click on the three dot menu icon in the upper right corner of the window.
Then select “Settings” from the menu.
In the left sidebar, expand the “Advanced” section and select “Accessibility”.
Activate the option “Live Caption”. Some speech recognition files will be downloaded immediately. If you don’t see the caption option active, try updating your browser.
As soon as the files are downloaded, Live Caption is ready to be used! Go to a website and play a video or anything with transcribable audio. Captions will appear in a translucent black box at the bottom of the screen.
You can click on the “X” button located in the upper right corner of the black caption box to close it. You can also select the small down arrow to see more text. If you close the caption box, you’ll need to refresh the page to bring it back.
To activate or deactivate the live subtitle, you do not need to go to the Settings menu every time. Instead, click on the media icon on the Chrome toolbar and you’ll find a button for “Dynamic Caption”.
That’s it! The feature – theoretically – works on any website, as long as there is something reproducible reproducible. We tested successfully on YouTube, Disney + and even Spotify Web Player.
As you can see above, the accuracy of subtitles is somewhat unpredictable (“Western” must be “wasteful”). This is still a useful resource for those sites that do not have their own subtitling system.
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