You can turn on Live Caption for media you play in Chrome. Live Caption is only available in English.
Tips:
- When you play a video, to turn on captions, at the top right click Media
control .
- To use live captions for videos that autoplay, turn on the video volume.
- When you click away from the tab with sound, live captions will appear in a hover-bubble that you can drag. To return to the tab with audio, click .
Customize your captions
Customize your captions to make them easier to read. You can:
- Collapse and expand captions with the arrow on the caption box.
- Select the captions to move them to your preferred place on your browser.
- Change your caption font, size, color, and opacity.
- Change the background color and opacity.
To customize the font:
- On your computer, open Chrome .
- At the top right, click More
Settings.
- At the bottom of the Settings page, click Advanced AccessibilityCaptions.
- In your computer's system preferences, select your customization.
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Accessibility on Chrome
- Use TalkBack to browse the web with Chrome
- Use Chrome with accessibility extensions
- Change text, image, and video sizes [zoom]
- Chrome keyboard shortcuts
- Get image descriptions on Chrome
- Use a text cursor to navigate & select text
- Highlight part of page you’re focused on
- Use tab groups with your keyboard
- Use Live Caption in Chrome
- Use Chrome Actions to quickly complete tasks
With a single tap, Live Caption automatically captions speech on your device. You can use it on media like videos, podcasts, phone calls, video calls, and audio messages. Important:
Contents
Turn on Live Caption
Move the caption box
Change Live Caption settings
Type responses during a phone call
Battery use & other notes
Get help
Turn on Live Caption
Live Caption works on:
- Pixel 2 and later phones in English
- Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish
- On Pixel 6 & Pixel 6 Pro phones, you can also identify these languages and translate media captions automatically through auto detection.
- Other select Android phones
To turn Live Caption on or off:
- Press the volume button.
- Under the volume controls, tap Live Caption
.
Tip: If these steps don't work, you may need to first turn on Live Caption in your device’s Accessibility settings.
When Live Caption is on, captions appear for speech in media playing on your device.
On Pixel phones, captions also appear during calls. The person on the other end of the call is notified with a voice announcement that captions are on.
All captions are processed locally, never stored, and never leave your device.
Tip: If you don’t find “Live Caption,” you might need to update your Android System Intelligence. Android System Intelligence was previously called “Device Personalization Services.” If you find the previous name in the Play Store, you can still update the app.
Move the caption box
- To move the caption box: Touch and hold, then drag up or down.
- To hide captions and turn off Live Caption: Drag the caption box off the bottom of your screen.
- To expand or contract the caption box: Double-tap. This movement isn’t available while you’re on a call.
Change Live Caption settings
- On your device, open Settings
.
- Tap Sound
Live Caption.
- Under Settings, you can find or change these settings:
- Turn Live Caption on or off.
- Hide or show profanity.
- Hide or show sound labels, such as laughter and applause.
- Hide or show the Live Caption icon in volume control.
- Turn call captioning on or off. This setting is for Pixel phones only.
Tip: To change the caption size, style, and color, go to caption preferences.
Type responses during a phone call
Important: Available on Pixel 6 & Pixel 6 Pro only.
Use this feature to make calls without speech. You get captions of what the other person says and you can type in responses in real time. Your messages are read aloud by the system. This feature doesn’t translate and only allows you to converse in your current language.
To turn type responses on:
- On your phone, open Settings
.
- Tap Accessibility
Live Caption.
- Turn on Type responses during calls.
During calls, a notification informs you that call captions is on. To start typing, tap Keyboard
Battery use & other notes
When you’re on calls or when you play media, Live Caption uses more battery. Live Caption turns off automatically in battery saver mode.
Other notes about Live Caption:
- Live Caption isn't intended for calls with more than one other person.
- During calls, if you mute your side during the captions disclosure announcement, the announcement is muted. Make sure that the other person knows captions are on.
- Captions might be unavailable for some media and calling apps.
- Live Caption works best on audio with clear speech and low background noise.
- Live Caption doesn't work on music.
- Live Caption doesn't use mobile data or an internet connection. All audio and captions are processed on the device and are never stored or sent to Google.
Get more help
For more help with Live Caption, contact the Google Disability Support team.