Live Captions

Transcriptions are generated automatically in real time for students who are deaf or hard of hearing so they can follow along more easily with lectures, masterclasses, and Gather round recordings.

Live Captions

Turn Live Captions on or off

Live Caption is only available in English.

  1. On your computer, open Chrome Chrome.
  2. Start playing the masterclass, lecture, or talk.
  3. At the top right, click More More and then Settings.
  4. At the bottom of the Settings page, click Accessibility.
  5. Turn on Live Caption.

Tips:

  • When you play a video, to turn on captions, at the top right click Media control 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:

  1. On your computer, open Chrome Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More More and then Settings.
  3. At the bottom of the Settings page, click Accessibility and then Caption preferences.
  4. In your computer’s system preferences, select your customization.

Turn Live Captions on or off

  1. On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, click Accessibility in the sidebar, then click Live Captions (Beta) on the right. (You may need to scroll down.)
  2. Turn Live Captions on or off.The Live Captions window appears and stays on screen. If you want to hide the window when no audio is detected, click the Live Captions icon in the menu bar , then make sure Keep Onscreen isn’t chosen.

    Note: The first time you turn on Live Captions, language data is downloaded to your Mac. You must be connected to the internet. Live Captions is currently in beta. Live Captions is only available on Mac computers with Apple silicon and is not available in all languages, countries or regions. The accuracy of Live Captions may vary.