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- Live captioning is an essential accessibility tool that enhances the inclusivity of events, broadcasts, and online content. By converting speech into text in real-time, live captioning ensures that everyone, including those with hearing loss, can fully engage with the content.
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- Overview
- Turn on live captions
- Personalize how captions are displayed
- Make captions easier to read
- Use your microphone
- Add and use other languages
- Get the most out of live captions
- FAQ and troubleshooting
Live captions helps everyone, including people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, better understand audio by providing automatic transcription.
Live captions is available in Windows 11, version 22H2 and later. The latest live captions update includes support for multiple languages and changes to some of the menu items. If you don’t have this update yet, note that new Windows 11 features are released gradually.
To turn on live captions, do one of the following:
•Turn on the Live captions toggle in the quick settings Accessibility flyout. (To open quick settings, select the battery, network, or volume icon on the taskbar.)
•Press Windows logo key + Ctrl + L.
•Select Start > All apps > Accessibility > Live captions.
•Go to Settings > Accessibility > Captions, and turn on the Live captions toggle.
When turned on the first time, live captions will prompt you to download live captions language files to be used by on-device speech recognition. If your language is not available, you can use another language during setup.
To choose where captions are displayed on your desktop:
1.Select the Settings button in the live captions window.
2.Select Position.
3.Choose either Top, Bottom, or Floating on screen.
•When you choose Top or Bottom, the captions window will appear as docked to the top or bottom screen edges in reserved space on your desktop, and other apps will not be blocked by the captions window. When docked to the top, you might find that live captions works well while sharing video in a virtual meeting or conversation, whereas in other cases, such as viewing videos, docking to bottom might work best.
•When you choose Floating on screen, the live captions will appear in an overlay window which you can reposition as needed to avoid obscuring other apps in use.
1.Select the Settings button in the live captions window.
2.Select Preferences.
3.Select Caption style. The Accessibility settings for Captions opens.
4.Under Caption style, do one of the following:
•Select a built-in style from the dropdown menu. Use the Default built-in style to have captions displayed with colors appropriate to your device’s dark or light mode setting in Settings > Personalization > Colors > Choose your mode.
•Select the Edit button to create a custom style that works best for you.
To caption your own speech:
1.Select the Settings button in the live captions window.
2.Select Preferences, and turn on the Include microphone audio option.
Any audio captured by your microphone will be captioned, provided that no other audio on your device is being captioned. For example, if you use live captions to caption an online meeting with another person, if you both speak over each other, you will only see the captions for the other person while the other person is speaking.
To add other languages:
1.Select the Settings button in the live captions window.
2.Select Caption language.
3.Select Add a language. The Language & region settings window opens.
4.In Language & region settings, go to Preferred languages, and then select Add a language.
5.In Choose a language to install, browse or search for a language with support for Speech recognition, and then select Next.
•To mask profanity, go to the Settings menu, select Preferences, and turn on the Filter profanity option.
•To improve captioning accuracy when using the microphone, make sure to minimize background noise in your environment and speak directly into the microphone.
•To ensure minimal delay in captions or if you notice that captions are not appearing, try closing unused apps to maximize performance.
•Resource-intensive apps (for example, apps that share video) might impact the real-time behavior of live captions, leading to delays in captions, or even dropped captions. If this happens, consider limiting some app functionality while depending on live captions (for example, turn off any background effects or other special effects applied to shared video).
Live Captions Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Troubleshooting live captions or voice access setup issues
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Mar 26, 2022 · Simply stated, live captions are the textual record of spoken words implemented in real-time. But there’s a lot more to its definition than this summary. Here you’ll learn about the captions’ history, evolution, purposes, and what they accomplish.
With live captions, Teams can detect what’s said in a meeting and present real-time captions and subtitles.
Dec 22, 2022 · Live captioning allows Deaf people to easily follow along with talks and conversations when attending events, seminars and meetings, without having to rely on lip-reading. It works by converting spoken words into a written form that can be read by all parties involved in the conversation.
Dec 11, 2023 · Live captioning, also sometimes referred to as real-time captioning or live transcription, is a real-time transcription of spoken content with the text directly displayed to viewers or participants, enabling them to read and understand what is being said in the moment.
With Live Captions on iPhone, you can get a real-time transcription of spoken audio. Use Live Captions to more easily follow the audio in any app, such as FaceTime or Podcasts, as well as live conversations around you.
