Google’s Live Caption Tool Is Now Available as a Hidden Feature in Chrome

survive Captionsis one of the most utilitarian feature on Android phone , allowing your mobile gadget to automatically transcribe any audio it ’s currently toy . And now it seems Google is bringing Live Captions to Chrome , with the feature already uncommitted as a hidden alternative in the browser app .

First remark byChrome Story , Live Caption can actually be activated now in Windows , macOS , and Chrome OS interlingual rendition of Chrome 88 . But if you need to stress out Live Captions for yourself , you ’ll need to manually enable it as it ’s presently still name as an experimental lineament . To activate Live Captions , you’re able to glue this control chrome://flags/#enable - accessibility - live - subtitle into Chrome ’s hunting legal community , and then explore for Live Captions to see the toggle choice .

Once you have Live Captions flex on , you ’ll be asked to relaunch Chrome . From there , to get it knead , all you need to do is browse over to a video or something like a podcast in Chrome , and a modest measure should automatically toss off up along the bottom of the web web browser expose live subtitle .

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That said , Live Captions is still an experimental feature and there are a few bug . The first is that it does n’t seem to work with YouTube at all ( unless you are run Chrome Canary ) , though that ’s not of necessity a vast deal as YouTube already offers reflex closed captions for many telecasting .

Additionally , depending on the audio germ , arranging may not mechanically seem as you look or might bar form if you intermit a television , so you may have to re-start the Live Captions feature by turning it on and off from Chrome ’s Global Media configurations controls ( the music note icon in the top correct corner of Chrome ) . And on Chromebooks and other Chrome bone devices , Live Captions does n’t seem to exploit for sound recording come from Linux or Android apps either .

Still , some bugs are to be look for something that has n’t been officially let go of yet , and even though in my experience the truth of Google ’s Live Captions can be somewhat arrive at or escape , the feature of speech is still a valuable upgrade for world-wide accessibility .

Screenshot: Sam Rutherford