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You can customize the display of subtitles and captions, and choose to use subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) or closed captions, whenever they’re available.

Tip: If your Mac supports it, you can turn on live captioning of audio so you can follow along more easily with conversations, audio, and video. See Use Live Captions .

Go to Hearing on the right, then click Captions.

Open Captions settings for me

Do any of the following:

Enable closed captions and SDH: Turn on “Prefer closed captions and SDH.”

Stop using closed captions and SDH: Turn off “Prefer closed captions and SDH.”

To have your style setting always used, deselect the “Allow video to override” checkbox.

In the bottom section, you can also set a font to use to override another font every time it’s used in subtitles. For example, you might set a font to use instead of Cursive in subtitles.

Edit a style you created: Select the style in the list, then click Edit.

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How to use Live Captions to get subtitles for absolutely anything in iOS 16

By D. Griffin Jones • 6:20 am, September 29, 2022

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Live Captions, in iOS 16, generate subtitles of any audio playing in any app on your iPhone. Powered by the Neural Engine in Apple’s custom silicon, the capability to turn words from music and/or videos into real-time text is a boon to many users, in many different situations.

If you’re hard of hearing, for instance, the ability to see instant captions on the screen is a game changer. Or, if you don’t have headphones when you’re sitting in bed late at night and your partner is asleep – or you’re in any situation where you don’t want to make noise, like on the bus or in an office – you can turn on Live Captions to get subtitles.

The applications are endless and exciting. Here’s how to use Live Captions in iOS 16.

How to use Live Captions in iOS 16

Live Captions made a big splash in May when Apple announced the feature alongside other new accessibility features coming to iOS. These features got their own day in the spotlight to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day ahead of WWDC22, where Apple laid out its plans for iOS 16 and its other operating systems.

To use these features, you need to install iOS 16 . iOS 16 is compatible with every iPhone released in 2017 and later, but this feature is only available on the iPhone 11, 12, 13 and 14 models and iPhone SE (second and third generation).

This feature is also limited to the United States and Canada. You can change the region if your device if you really want to try it out, but I don’t think it’s worth the compromise.

Enable Live Captions

Once you’re all set on iOS 16 (and after you’ve messed around with making a custom Lock Screen ), go to Settings > Accessibility > Live Captions (Beta) near the bottom of the list.

Enable  Live Captions to turn on the feature. A floating widget will appear, waiting for something to caption. Elsewhere in Settings, you can configure this widget to appear and disappear from Control Center or by triple-clicking the side button, but first, let’s take a look at how it works ( click here to skip ahead ).

Also, enable Live Captions in FaceTime while you’re here to get captions the next time you’re on a FaceTime call.

How well do Live Captions work?

Fair warning: Despite all of my best efforts, I cannot get the Live Captions widget to appear in my screenshots. I even tried plugging my phone into my computer and recording the screen in QuickTime to no avail.

What follows are pictures of my phone I took with an (old) iPad. I’m sorry.

Live Captions in YouTube videos

I tested Live Captions so you can directly see how accurate the captions are. See, I have been running a video experiment on YouTube for the last two years where I narrate Wikipedia articles in their entirety. This comes in handy, because you can compare how well Live Captions transcribes my narration to the original text on the screen.

As you can see, the results are … not great. This is a little surprising. Voice dictation works great for me in iMessage; Siri usually understands my voice pretty well. My voice, to my knowledge, sounds the same in the videos as it does when during typical iPhone use. And yet, Live Captions transcribes my YouTube videos pretty poorly.

I like to read the news through NetNewsWire and listen to commentary through podcasts. Could I consolidate this even further by using Live Captions to turn podcasts into written words? Kind of.

Even where it works best, we have to address a matter of implementation: You can’t run an entire podcast episode through Live Captions and scroll through the resulting text, reading like an article. Live Captions processes the audio as it hears it.

That means you can read a few lines at a time, at the same speed as the dialogue is spoken. Plus, as Live Captions hears the end of a sentence, it might work backward and correct the beginning of that sentence, adding punctuation or replacing sound-alike words, much as it does when using dictation on your iPhone. In effect, three lines of text really only yields one that you can read.

If you tap the fullscreen arrows, you can read more at once, but that covers up the app controls for pausing and skipping chapters.

It’s also clear that this doesn’t play well with the two dudes talking genre of podcasts. You can’t tell who’s saying what by reading the text alone.

Live Captions for music lyrics

I’m absolutely terrible at understanding song lyrics. There are albums I have heard literally hundreds of times that I still can’t memorize the lyrics to, much less understand. Apple Music serves up live lyrics for a lot of popular music, but confusingly, not for the entire discography of Driftless Pony Club , the greatest indie rock band in the world.

So, can you use Live Captions to parse lyrics for you? Another mixed bag. When it can pick up the lyrics, they’re generally pretty accurate. However, they come and go unpredictably.

On an acoustic song that I thought would be an easy home run, Live Captions decided to transcribe the single guitar lightly strumming in the background as “de de de de de de” instead of the spoken lyrics. After updating to developer beta 3, when I went to take the above screenshot, Live Captions picked up a partial lyric instead (pictured on the left).

I also tried two notoriously challenging songs to try and throw off the Live Captions feature. The spoken word intro to “ Ya Got Trouble ” from The Music Man captioned surprisingly well — that is, until the full music kicked in (pictured on the right). “ The Elements ” was another pleasant surprise, with Live Captions correctly identifying about half of the elements reeled off in the rapid-fire recording.

Quickly turn on and off the Live Captions widget

If you want to keep using Live Captions, you don’t want to dig into Settings to enable and disable the floating control menu every time.

To keep it hand, go to Settings > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut (at the very bottom) and enable  Live Captions . Now, you can enable or disable Live Captions by triple-clicking the iPhone’s side button.

You also can add a button to Control Center. Go back to Settings > Control Center and tap the green  + next to  Accessibility Shortcuts . Once enabled, swipe down from the top-right of the display (or, if you have an iPhone 8 or iPhone SE, the bottom edge) to bring up Control Center. Tap the Accessibility icon and select Live Captions to turn it on.

How could Live Captions improve?

Apple continues to make leaps and bounds of progress with its Neural Engine. Machine learning is clearly an area where the company excels, and the pace of improvement is only getting faster.

The captions themselves should get more accurate over time. Apple’s current dictation feature, and its voice processing for Siri, both work best when you speak clearly and hold your phone right up to your face. It will take some time for Live Captions to train on translating voices in the wide manner of environments people film YouTube videos and FaceTime their family.

I would love to see a developer API for this feature. The problem is that Live Captions transcribes any audio as it plays out of the speakers; the feature has no concept of what’s playing, how long the audio is, or what’s coming up ahead. It can’t process audio in advance and it can’t be connected inside an app’s interface.

Imagine if, in the Podcasts app, you could push a button that would process an entire episode at once. The text would scroll along with you as you listened, but you also could read ahead or back up.

Maybe in iOS 17. 🤞

This article was first published on July 19. It was republished after the release of iOS 16.

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How to Use Live Captions to Add Subtitles to Any Device's Audio and Video

How to add audio and video captions to just about any device..

Captions on services such as Netflix or YouTube are essential for those with hearing issues—and they’re a handy option for everyone when we’re in loud environments or have to watch videos in silence. Now our phones and laptops have grown smart enough to start captioning both audio and video streams automatically.

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That means, no matter where you’re watching or listening to something, whether it’s on social media or in a podcast app, you can get access to captions. The development of this feature is at different stages on different platforms, and the AI behind the technology isn’t always reliable, but it’s now something you can access on just about every device.

At the time of writing, Live Caption on Android works on Pixel phones and what Google describes as “other select Android phones”—so your own handset may not have it. On Pixel devices, open Settings, then go to Accessibility and Live Caption , then toggle on the Use Live Caption switch. You can also get to it by pressing a volume button, then tapping the bottom icon on the slider that appears.

The same technology is implemented on recent flagship Samsung Galaxy phones, though it’s located in a slightly different place. If you’re on a Galaxy handset, you need to head to Accessibility from Settings, then select Hearing enhancements and Live Caption . Again, you’ll see a straightforward toggle switch together with the same options that appear on Google phones (including an option for blocking out profanity).

That’s all there is to it—whenever audio or video is playing and speech is detected, you’ll see live captions appear in the center of the screen. Note that the feature works regardless of where your phone’s volume level is set, so you can have your handset muted and captions will still show up on the screen.

If you’re using an iPhone 11 or later, live captioning is available in beta form, so proceed accordingly—you may see one or two issues along the way (and for now it’s only available if your phone is set to use US English). Overall, the feature should work fine. To enable it, open up the iOS Settings screen and select Accessibility, then Live Captions (Beta) .

Set the Live Captions toggle switch to on and iOS will start listening out for audio—you’ll see an overlay at the bottom of the screen to this effect. You can also tap on Appearance to change how the live captions actually appear on screen, by adjusting the text size, the color of the text, and even the opacity of the overlay to suit yourself. You may also see certain apps listed that you can turn on live captions for individually.

Start playing something through an app with audio attached and the captions should appear on screen, whether or not your phone is currently muted (though you may have to wait for the necessary files to download first). It’ll even work on live conversations that are happening around you. Tap the floating overlay for more options (including the option to pause live captions).

Live captions are now available in Windows 11, as long as you’ve installed the major 22H2 update of late 2022—to check on this, open up Settings and select System and About , then look under the Windows specifications heading, where you should see the version number. If you’re not up to date, click Windows Update on the left.

From the front Settings screen, choose Accessibility , then pick Captions . The screen that then appears has a Live captions feature that you can turn on or off, and you’ll see a preview of how the subtitling is going to look on a little thumbnail. Further down the screen, you can make changes to the appearance of the captions . You can also turn live captions on or off by pressing Win+Ctrl+L .

In Windows, the captions appear in a large bar across the top of the screen, and you’ll see words start to appear once you start playing some audio or video (click the cog icon in the top right corner to tweak the feature). This all works independently of Windows’ volume settings , so you can have your computer muted and still see the captions.

When it comes to macOS, the feature is again in beta, so you may notice one or two bugs—you’ll need the latest Ventura version of the OS ( set to US English) and a Mac running Apple silicon under the hood to get live captions. Open the Apple menu, then click System Settings and Accessibility , and you’ll find the Live Captions (Beta) option.

Once you turn the Live Captions toggle switch on, you’ll see the captions overlay appear on screen, and macOS will start downloading the necessary language files. On the same settings screen, you can make adjustments to the text size and the style of the captions, and you might also see toggle switches for live captions in individual apps.

Start playing something with audio, whether that’s a FaceTime call or a YouTube video, and captions should start appearing on screen (no matter how high or low your Mac’s volume is set). Click and drag on the captions bar if you want to reposition it, and click on the pause button if you want to temporarily put a halt to live captioning.

Live captioning is supported in Google Chrome as well, which means you can use it in the browser on Windows and macOS, and it of course comes in handy on Chromebooks too. If you’re running the latest version of Chrome or ChromeOS and it’s set to English, then the live captions option should appear.

In any browser tab, click the three dots (top right), then Settings , then choose Accessibility . In Chrome, you’ll see the Live Caption toggle switch straight away; in ChromeOS, you need to select Manage accessibility features and then Audio and captions before you get to the Live Caption setting.

You’ll have various options for the captions on the same screen, including the color and the size of the text and the opacity of the overlay that appears on screen. When you’ve got everything looking the way that you want it to in the preview, you can start playing audio or video in any browser tab to see captions, with or without the volume muted.

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Requirements to use Live Captions:

• Software: iOS 16 , iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura .
• Hardware: iPhone 11 and above. iPad with A12 SoC and above. Mac with M1 and Above.
• Region: Live Captions is currently only available in the USA and Canada.

Apple has constantly been making efforts to make iOS more accommodating towards the specially-abled. Apple’s Developer Conference of 2022 bought several welcome changes to iOS 16. The Live Captions feature is one such feature released with iOS 16, and here’s how you can use it. 

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Apple announced the Live Captions feature for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. The term Live Captions might be confusing, so allow me to explain easier terms. 

For example, if you’re watching a regional movie that isn’t in your first language, you’d prefer subtitles to keep up with the conversations in the movie. Live Captions works similarly and can provide captions on several apps and services.  

Take a look at the list below and where you can make use of Live Captions,  

• Phone calls.  
• FaceTime calls. 
• Video conferencing apps/services. 
• Social media apps. 
• Streaming media.  
• Conversing with people.  

Live Captions are generated on the user’s device, so there’s no need to worry about one’s privacy.  

The Live Captions feature is currently available only in the USA and Canada. Also, users need to update to iOS 16 Beta to use this feature. If you meet these requirements, here’s how to enable or disable Live Captions,  

• Open  Settings .
• Navigate to  Accessibility .
• Tap the  Live Captions (Beta)  option located under the  Hearing  section.
• On the next page,  turn on the Live Captions toggle.

Follow the same steps and turn the toggle off in the last step whenever you want to disable Live Captions on iOS 16.

To enable Live Captions and Mac :  System Preferences has been renamed to System Settings with the macOS Ventura update. With the name change, the settings have also received a visual overhaul and now look similar to the iOS settings. You can follow the same steps on all three devices to use the Live Captions feature.

You can enable or disable Live Captions without going through all the settings every single time. All you need to do is triple-click the lock button to enable or disable Live Captions. Here’s how to enable this shortcut,  

• Open  Settings .  
• Navigate to  Accessibility .  
• Tap the  Accessibility Shortcut  option located under the  General  section.  
• Navigate and  select Live Captions .  

Another way is to enable and disable Live Captions directly through the Control Panel. Firstly, you’ll need to create an Accessibility shortcut by following the steps in the section mentioned above. Once you’ve done that,  

• Tap  Control Centre .  
• Search for  Accessibility Shortcuts  under the  More Controls  section and  tap the green + icon .  
• Now, you can find and use the Accessibility Shortcut that enables and disables Live Captions directly from the Control Centre. 

While Live Captions for FaceTime and RTT are enabled by default when you enable the Live Captions feature. You can also manually enable or disable this feature. Here’s how,  

• Tap the  Live Captions (Beta)  option located under the  Hearing  section.  
• On the next page,  turn on the Live Captions toggle. 
• Under the In-App Live Captions section, you can  enable or disable the toggles for Live Captions in FaceTime and Live Captions in RTT .  

I hope this article helped you enable Live Captions on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. How well refined is the Live Captions feature, according to you? Let me know in the comments below.

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How to Use Live Captions on Your Mac to Transcribe Audio

Closed captions aren't available everywhere, but Apple aims to fix that with the Live Captions feature in macOS Ventura. Here's how to use it.

In macOS Ventura and later, you can take advantage of a nifty feature called Live Captions to generate real-time captions while playing media or talking into a microphone. It even works the other way and converts typed text to speech.

Sounds useful, right? Here's how to use Live Captions on your Mac to transcribe audio anywhere.

How Live Captions in macOS Works

Live Captions is a built-in macOS accessibility feature that transcribes system and microphone audio to text in real-time on the Mac. It also comes with a Type to Speak mode that speaks whatever you type out loudly. Transcription happens locally on your Mac, so it works even when there's no internet access.

If you're deaf or hard of hearing, you should find Live Captions handy while watching videos, listening to podcasts, or interacting with people nearby. Even if you don't have a hearing impairment, you should still find it helpful when you need to keep the volume low.

That said, we'd like to quickly point out that Live Captions is in beta at the time of writing, so it is only sometimes accurate. Apple explicitly mentions that you must not rely on it in "high-risk or emergency situations." Also, Live Captions requires the neural engine in Apple silicon to work, so you won't find the feature if your Mac packs an Intel chipset .

How to Enable Live Captions on Your Mac

Live Captions is inactive by default, so you must enable it via the System Settings app. To do that, follow these simple instructions:

• Open the Apple menu and select System Settings .
• Go to Accessibility > Live Captions (Beta) .
• Use the menus next to Font Family , Font Size , Font Color , and Background Color to customize the appearance of captions. You can come back and change them whenever you want.
• Turn on the switch next to Live Captions in FaceTime to receive additional visual cues like speaker attribution in FaceTime group calls.

How to Use Live Captions on Your Mac

Live Captions automatically kicks into gear and generates captions at the bottom of the screen whenever you play a video or audio clip that contains speech. If you want, you can move or resize the Live Captions box around the screen.

Blue dotted lines under words and phrases indicate potential inaccuracies.

By default, Live Captions transcribes your Mac's system audio. Select the Microphone icon on the Live Captions box if you want to switch it for microphone input. Additionally, choose Pause / Resume to pause and resume Live Captions.

Additionally, you can use the Live Captions status icon on the menu bar to manage how the feature works.

• Start / Stop Live Captions : Pause and resume Live Captions.
• Computer Audio : Set your computer's audio as the transcription source.
• Microphone : Set microphone input as the transcription source.
• Keep Onscreen : Keep the Live Captions box visible, even when paused.
• Type to Speak : Activate Type to Speak mode. Live Captions will speak whatever you type into the box and transcribe audio from the microphone, allowing for real-time conversations if you have verbal communication issues.
• Restore Default Position : Restore the default position and size of the Live Captions box.

Live Captions Is Far From Perfect

Live Captions on the Mac works well, but expect frequent transcription errors if the audio source is unclear or has lots of background noise. Don't forget that the feature is still in beta.

So, if an application or website has dedicated caption or subtitle support, it's best to use that instead. For example, the Apple TV app supports closed captions for all its original content.

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How to Enable Live Captions in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura

The Live Captions feature in iOS/iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura will allow those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing to harness the power of machine learning on compatible models of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac to automatically generate and transcribe captions for on-device multimedia content and real-world conversations in real time.

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Using on-device intelligence, Live Captions will quickly generate captions inside apps, on websites, or other experiences where closed captions may not be available or supported.

Live Caption Pros

• Highly accurate speech-to-text engine
• Robust integration with video chat apps including FaceTime

Live Caption Cons

• Captions are not visible when sharing device screenshots.
• Lack of vocal clarity or excessive background noise may negatively impact performance.
• No dedicated API for developers can make performance feel slow.

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Before you proceed any further, know that Live Captions are only available on the iPhone 11 and later and iPad models powered by the A12 chip and later. Furthermore, the device needs to be running either iOS 16 or iPadOS 16 (available in beta at the time of writing). All Mac models with Apple Silicon can also run Live Captions. Follow the steps below to enable the Live Captions beta on your iPhone/iPad.

• Launch the Settings app.

• Scroll down and select “Accessibility” from the menu.

• Scroll down once more to the submenu labeled “Hearing” and tap on “Live Captions (Beta).”

• Tap on the switch next to “Live Captions” to turn on the feature.

• A green switch indicates that you have successfully enabled Live Captions.

• Go to the “Live Captions (Beta)” section as demonstrated above and find the “In-app live captions” section.

• Enable Live Captions during phone calls by tapping the toggle labeled “Live Captions in RTT” where “RTT” stands for “Real-Time-Text.”

• To automatically activate Live Captions during FaceTime calls, tap on the switch labeled “Live Captions in FaceTime.”

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If you find the default Live Captions difficult to use, you can take steps to make the caption text more legible using controls for font color, size and more.

Configure Rich Text Editing Options

• Go to “Live Captions (Beta).”
• Select “Appearance.”

• To make your Live Caption text appear in Bold format, select “Bold Text.”

• Tap “On” to enable or disable bold text by selecting “Off.” To revert back to the default boldness level, select “Default.”

• To make Live Captions appear smaller or larger, start by tapping on “Text Size” in the “Appearance” screen.

• On the next screen, drag the slider to the right to make text larger or drag to the left to make text smaller.

• To restore Live Captions to their default text size, select the “Reset Font Size to Default” button beneath the font size toggle.

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Adjust the Color

• Select “Appearance” again from the “Live Captions (Beta)” menu.

• Underneath the header labeled “Color options,” select “Text Color” or “Background Color” to view a list of colors for Live Captions.

• When the “Text Color” menu appears, tap on any of the preset colors to set a new Live Caption color.

• Alternatively, you can select “Spectrum” from the “Text Color” or “Background color” menu for more granular color customization options.

• For true color enthusiasts looking to customize Live Caption colors based on precise red, green, and blue levels, tap on the Slider” icon in the Text Color menu.

• Drag the red, green, and blue sliders to generate the color that you would like to use.

• If you know the color code that you want to use, tap on the text input field to the right of the “Display P3 Hex Color #” text and enter the color code using the onscreen keyboard.

• To reset to the default colors, select the blue “Reset Colors” button in the “Appearance” menu.

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Adjust the Opacity

• Go back to “Appearance” from the “Live Captions (Beta)” menu.

• Drag the slider under “Idle Opacity” to customize the transparency of the Live Text toggle icon while it is not in use.

Unlike live caption browser extensions , Live Captions work by displaying an easily-accessible widget throughout the entire system that can be dynamically adjusted and resized to remain as unobtrusive as possible. This uniquely integrated interface offers a surprising degree of user customization highlighted in the following steps.

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Minimize, Drag, and Expand the Live Captions Widget

• To begin using Live Captions, you will need to wake the Live Captions widget from its idle state by tapping the grey circular icon with sound waves.

• After you tap the Live Caption icon, it will expand to reveal a wide canvas for spoken dialog.

• Tap anywhere on the dialog window to reveal four new control buttons.

• If you want to return Live Captions to its idle state, collapse and minimize the dialog window by tapping the back arrow button to the left.

• To enter full screen mode for Live Captions, select the expand arrow on the right.

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Pausing the Live Captions Widget

• Tap anywhere on the Live Text widget to toggle the four control buttons.

• Tap the pause icon to temporarily pause Live Captions without closing out of it entirely.

Switching Between Active Captions and In-App Captions

• By default, Live Captions will monitor on-device audio to generate and transcribe in-app captions. To generate Active Captions for spoken content in real time, start by tapping anywhere on the Live Text widget to toggle the four control buttons.

• Tap on the microphone icon. It will turn white, and the dialog below will state “Microphone/Listening.”

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• To enable Live Captions on your Mac running the macOS Ventura beta, first open the System Settings app.

• From the left menu, select the “Accessibility” option.

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• Click on “Live Captions (Beta)” under “Hearing.”

• Click on the switch next to “Live Captions” to turn on the feature.

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• In the “Live Captions (Beta)” section, identify the “In-App Live Captions” header.

• Enable the “Live Captions in FaceTime calls” toggle.

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A variety of font-styling choices and background color options for the Live Captions widget on the Mac can help make Live Captions even easier to use. This ensures that users who are both hearing- and visually-impaired can still take advantage of the convenience of Live Captions.

Configure Fonts and Font Size

• Identify the font and color options in the same “Live Captions (Beta)” section.

• Click on the text button labeled “Default” next to “Font Family.”

• Scroll through a number of built-in system fonts and click on the one you’d like to use.

• To adjust the font size, go to “Font Size” and type in the point size that you desire or use the up or down arrow keys to get to the desired number.

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Change the Color of Live Captions

• Select the text button labeled “Default” to the right of either “Font Color” or “Background Color.” We are changing the font color in this example.

• Click “Choose custom color” from the drop-down menu, and a color picker window will appear.

• Select your preferred color.

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To prevent the Live Captions widget from constantly obstructing onscreen content or unnecessarily disrupting other multimedia content, you can move the widget or pause its functionality in just a few clicks.

Move, Resize, or Pause the Live Captions Widget

• Click and drag anywhere on the Live Captions widget to move it just as you would any floating window on the Mac.

• Click and drag diagonally on any one of the four corners of the Live Caption widget to resize it.

• Pause activity in the Live Captions widget by selecting pause in the upper-right corner of the window.

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Switch Between Active Captions and In-App Captions

• By default, the Live Captions feature uses in-app audio to generate and transcribe captions. “Active Captions,” which generate real-time captions for spoken content in the real world can be enabled by clicking anywhere on the Live Text widget. Two control buttons will appear in the upper right of the Live Captions widget.

• Click the white Microphone icon to turn on “Active Captions.” A strikethrough will appear on top of the icon to indicate that “Active Captions” have been successfully enabled.

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The Live Caption widget keeps disappearing on my Mac. How do I get it to stay?

Navigate to the left of the menu bar and click on the icon that looks like a speech bubble. Under the new drop-down menu, select the item labeled “Keep Onscreen.”

Why do I not see the option to enable the Live Captions beta on my device if it is compatible?

You must be running the iOS 16 beta on your iPhone, the iPadOS 16 beta on your iPad, or macOS Ventura on your Mac. To join the public beta ahead of Apple’s major software releases this fall. visit beta.apple.com

Can Live Captions auto-transcribe podcasts and YouTube videos?

Yes, Live Captions work inside all third party applications, including the Podcasts app and video streaming apps like YouTube. Note, however, that Live Captions work in real time and cannot instantly turn the audio content from podcasts or videos into instantly-readable articles.

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How to Use Captions and Live Captions in Mac?

Accessibility features help people with difficulties to use the Mac efficiently. However, normal users can also use these some of these features to make things easier. Captions and Live Captions are two such features you can use to read the text subtitles when the audio plays on your Mac. They are super useful when you are not able to follow the video content or not able to follow the participant talking in a FaceTime meeting. Here is how you can use Captions and Live Captions in Mac along with differences and limitations.

Enable Live Captions in Mac

Live Captions are disabled by default in Mac. Follow the below steps to enable and customize the appearance:

• Go to “ Apple logo > System Settings…” menu.
• Select “Accessibility” from left sidebar and scroll down on the right pane.
• Click “Live Captions (Beta)” option showing under “Hearing” section.

• Turn on “Live Captions” option to start using the feature.

Customize Live Captions in Mac

If you want to customize the appearance of Live Captions, click the “ Font family ” dropdown and select your favorite font family. Similarly, you can increase or decrease the font size as per your convenient.

For the colors, you can click on “Font color” and “Background color” dropdowns and select “Choose Custom Color…” option. This will open color picker in Mac allowing you to select different colors for Live Captions font and background.

You can also turn on “Live Captions in FaceTime” option to use the feature in FaceTime app to generate the transcript for your conversation.

Using Live Captions in Mac

Live Captions in Mac converts audio to text and displays as a pop-up box outside when the media file plays. Hover over the Live Captions box to pause or use your microphone.

You can also use the menu icon showing on the top bar to control the behavior.

It has the following features in macOS:

• It’s a beta feature and you may find the transcript is not perfect.
• Current the feature is only available on Mac with Apple silicon chip (M1 or M2) and in limited countries/languages.
• The conversion happens in your Mac based on the installed language files. That means, you can use Live Captions without internet connection.
• Live Captions works better with English though you can also get the translated text for other languages.
• You can move the box and keep on the display in convenient position.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Live Captions in Mac

Unlike Live Captions in Windows 11 , macOS does not offer default keyboard shortcuts. However, you can assign custom keyboard shortcuts to use Live Captions effectively.

• Go to “Apple logo > System Settings… > Keyboard” section.
• Click on the “Keyboard Shortcuts…” button.

• On the pop-up that appears, go to “Accessibility” section and check “Live Captions” option.

• Click the small arrow appears in front of “Live Captions” option and expand it. You will see a list of items with all set as “none” keyboard shortcut.
• Double click on the “none” value against each item and setup your custom keyboard shortcuts. You can setup shortcut for toggling Live Captions, type to speak, keep onscreen, audio/microphone and pause/resume.
• Remember, it is possible to assign any custom shortcut keys in the box. So, make sure to avoid overlapping with the default macOS shortcuts like “Command + A” or “Command + S”. If you made any mistakes, simply click on “Restore Defaults” button to delete the setup and make all the options as “none”.

Enable and Customize Captions in Mac

Captions are enabled by default in Mac and they will show when the media file has subtitles. However, you can customize the appearance of Captions to make them appealing for your eyes.

• Click the Apple logo on top right corner and select “System Settings…” menu.
• Go to “Accessibility” section from left sidebar.
• Scroll down a bit on the right pane and select “Captions” option showing under “Hearing” section.

• On the next screen, you will see a live preview of how captions will look when an app playing media file uses your macOS settings. You have few default styles to choose like Transparent Background , Classic, Large Text and Outline Text. In addition, you can also enable closed captions or subtitle for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). If this option is enabled, Mac will use closed captions instead of Live Captions.

• If you do not like all the four default styles, then you have an option to create a custom style. First select one of the default styles and click the + icon. This will open a pop-up with list of properties for the selected style. Now, you can edit colors, fonts, font family, opacity, etc. and provide a new name. Click “OK” button to add the new custom style in your Captions list.

• For deleting the custom style, select the style and then click on the – icon. Confirm the pop-up by clicking on “Delete” button. Remember, you can’t delete the default Captions style in Mac.

Using Captions in Mac

Captions/close captions are the subtitles shown only when the media file owner provided it. Unfortunately, most of the apps and media files played in Safari will NOT follow the Captions settings from macOS. YouTube videos are the best examples for this case. You can enable or disable subtitles/captions for each video by clicking on the CC icon or selecting from the gear icon. However, Captions style will not use macOS settings and use YouTube’s style. So, Captions are not much useful like Live Captions and it’s up to the app developers to use system Captions settings or use their own.

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108 Safari Captions For Instagram – Puns, Quotes & Short Captions

If you’re an adventurous spirit who loves to explore the beauty of nature then you know that a good caption can take your safari photos from great to amazing.

Whether you’re taking snaps of majestic elephants, stealthy lions or towering giraffes, you want your Instagram post to capture the essence of your safari experience.

That’s why I’ve put together this list of the best safari Instagram captions that will make your followers roar with envy.

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Best Safari Instagram Captions

Cute safari captions for instagram.

• Where the wild things are
• Come on a safari with me
• Another day, another grand adventure
• I came, I saw, I went on safari and found my spirit animal
• I bless the rains down in Aaaaafrica
• In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight
• Taking a walk on the wild side
• I’m wild about this safari
• On safari, the only rush hour traffic you’ll encounter is a herd of wildebeest

• Mother Nature is my kind of girl
• Safari tip: Always stay in the jeep unless you want to be a snack
• Africa stole my heart
• Feeling wild and free on my safari adventure
• We’re going on an adventure!
• The world is a beautiful place and there’s no better way to experience it than on safari
• I’m not a morning person, but I’ll wake up at dawn for a safari any day
• Safari dreams do come true
• Safari sunsets and wild animals stole my heart
• I went on a safari and all I got was this cool Instagram post
• There’s something magical about watching animals in their natural habitat
• Safari success: Spotted the big five and I’m feeling alive
• Being surrounded by animals in their natural habitat is the most peaceful feeling in the world
• All my worries and stress just melted away on safari. I guess that’s what happens when you’re surrounded by majestic animals
• This is where I belong – surrounded by the wild and untamed beauty of Africa

• On a safari, even the smallest creatures leave the biggest impressions

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Funny Safari Captions & Safari Puns

• Safari good time
• This safari is not kitten around
• Sorry for lion to you like that
• A long came a giraffe
• Don’t listen to him, he’s lion
• That was roar -some!
• Toucan play at that game
• I ain’t lion when I say that safari was amazing!
• That was ele-phantastic!
• Tree -t yo’self
• The view is tree -mendous!
• I herd that you’re going on safari…
• You’re giraffing me crazy
• Well this safari has my seal of approval

• Jeep in the savannah
• This is panda -monium
• Jeep in the jungle
• I zebr- et you’re gonna go far!
• Your argument is irrelephant!
• This safari is a total game -changer!

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Short Safari Captions

• Where the lion sleeps tonight
• The animal kingdom
• The thrill of the chase
• Let’s get wild!
• An escape into the unknown
• Roaming with lions
• Unforgettable moments in the wild

• Call of the wild
• Embracing the wilderness
• The call of the savannah
• Savannah sunsets
• Safari hair, don’t care
• Beyond the city limits
• Memories in the making
• Into the wild
• Discovering the African bush

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Inspirational & Beautiful Safari Captions

• You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions
• I’m convinced that the best things in life are wild and free, just like the animals on safari
• Nature is the closest place to heaven on earth
• There’s nothing like the feeling of pure awe and amazement when you see a majestic animal on safari
• Going on a safari is not just about seeing animals, it’s about connecting with the earth and all of its inhabitants
• Life is a safari so explore it with a sense of adventure and wonder

• Nature is not a place to visit, it is home
• The most valuable lessons I’ve learned in life have come from the natural world and a safari is the ultimate classroom
• A safari is not just a journey, it’s an awakening of the senses
• Life is a journey and a safari is one of the greatest adventures you can take
• My heart longs for the African savannah
• Going on a safari is like pressing the pause button on life and immersing yourself in the present moment
• I went on a safari and came back with a new appreciation for the wonders of the world
• On safari, time stands still and you’re immersed in the natural world around you
• Sometimes the greatest adventures are the ones that take you out of your comfort zone, like a safari
• I went on a safari and came back with a heart full of gratitude and wonder
• There’s nothing like seeing the majesty of nature up close and personal on a safari
• Going on a safari is like stepping into a different world

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Safari Quotes For Instagram Captions

• “If I’ve ever seen magic it’s been in Africa.” – John Hemingway
• “A safari is not just a journey into the wild, but a journey into the soul of Africa.” – Traveller’s Elixir
• “They say an elephant never forgets. What they don’t tell you is you never forget an elephant.” – Bill Murray

• “The love of all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” – Charles Darwin
• “In the stillness of the savannah, I found the rhythm of my heart.” – Traveller’s Elixir
• “I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happy.” – Ernest Hemingway
• “One cannot resist the lure of Africa.” – Rudyard Kipling
• “The beauty of a safari lies in the unexpected moments of wonder and awe that take your breath away.” – Traveller’s Elixir
• “There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne – bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.” – Karen Blixen
• “I hope you have an experience that alters the course of your life because, after Africa, nothing has ever been the same.” – Suzanne Evans
• “On a safari, time stands still and the world is reduced to the magic of the moment.” – Traveller’s Elixir
• “Nothing but breathing the air of Africa, and actually walking through it, can communicate the indescribable sensations.” – William Burchell
• “If there were one more thing I could do, it would be to go on safari once again.” – Karen Blixen
• “Going on a safari is not just an adventure but a journey of the senses that leaves an imprint on your soul.” – Traveller’s Elixir
• “Every time I look at a zebra, I can’t figure out whether it’s black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.” – Jodi Picoult
• “Everything in Africa bites, but the safari bug is worst of all.” – Brian Jackman

• “In the vast expanse of the African wilderness, I found a deep connection to the rhythm of life itself.” – Traveller’s Elixir
• “Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.” – Miriam Makeba
• “People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.” – David Attenborough
• “A safari is not just about seeing animals, but about immersing yourself in the sights, sounds, and smells of the wild.” – Traveller’s Elixir
• “The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa – for he has so much to look forward to.” – Richard Mullin 
• “To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.” – George Schaller
• “On a safari, you don’t just observe nature, you become a part of it.” – Traveller’s Elixir
• “There is a language going on out there – the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops and chirps have meaning derived over eons of expression…we have yet to become fluent in the language – and music – of the wild.” – Boyd Norton
• “The eye never forgets what the heart has seen.” – African Proverb
• “A safari is not a trip, it’s a pilgrimage to the heart of the African continent.” – Traveller’s Elixir
• “It was wildest, untouched Africa, and it was magic.” – Jane Goodall

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Safari Hashtags For Instagram Likes

• #safariphotography
• #safaribaby
• #safariparty
• #safarilife
• #safaripark
• #safariafrica
• #safarigallery
• #safaritour
• #africansafari
• #safaristyle
• #photosafari
• #wildlifesafari
• #safariworld
• #safaritrip
• #safaritime
• #africasafari

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And that’s it! I’ve covered some of the best safari Instagram captions that you can use to add a little extra flair to your wildlife adventure posts.

Whether you’re heading to the savannahs of Africa, the rainforests of South America or the national parks of North America, these captions will help you capture the essence of your trip and share it with the world.

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How to Set Up & Use Live Captions on iPhone (iOS 16)

The Live Caption feature on iPhone released with iOS 16 is a helpful tool for the Deaf and hard of hearing, as well as anyone who prefers to be able to read captions off a screen instead of relying solely on listening. Learn how to add captions to videos on your iPhone for apps like FaceTime or supported video players.

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In iOS 16, Live Captions is a new feature that has your iPhone automatically transcribe audio and list it out on the screen in caption format. Beneficial for both Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities, as well as those who prefer to read along with audio they're hearing, this feature is easy to turn on and worked surprisingly well when I tried it out. The feature is currently in Beta mode, so it might not yet be widely available or bug-free, but it seems to be off to a solid start. You can turn on Live Captions by going into your Accessibility settings and toggling on Live Captions. Here's how to do that.

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Once Live Captions are enabled, you'll see a box at the bottom of your screen titled Live Captions, and you'll see "Listening..."  at the bottom. This means your microphone is listening for internal sounds to caption.

• If you want to stop it from listening temporarily but not fully disable the feature, tap the pause button .
• To listen for external sounds, tap the microphone button .
• To fullscreen the Live Captions box, tap the arrows on the far right .
• To minimize the Live Captions box, tap the arrow on the left .
• If your Live Captions are blocking the way or a keyboard or something you want to see, just drag it to a different part of your screen, and it will stay there.

Once your iPhone begins picking up Live Captions, you'll see them displayed in this box. There is currently no way to edit or scroll through them, but choosing the full-screen option allows you to see more at once before they disappear.

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How to Use a Slew of New Closed Caption Tools

You don't need to be deaf or have hearing loss to benefit from live subtitles as you watch videos.

Perhaps it's late at night; you're watching a video online or listening to a podcast and need to have the sound on your computer low so you won't disturb the person in another room trying to sleep.

Did you know that you now can turn on “live captions” to read what's on the screen for any audio that you can play through your Chrome browser? That's true for Facebook, Netflix, YouTube — even podcasts or a homemade video.

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Google started offering the new Live Caption feature for users of its Chrome browser in March after debuting it for its 2017 Pixel cellphones and expanding the service in 2019 to the Google Meet videoconferencing and Google Slides online presentation apps. Chrome is the most used tool for reading and accessing web pages worldwide, and nearly half the computer, phone and tablet users in the United States rely on it, according to StatCounter.

To turn on Live Caption, go to  Settings  in your browser, click on  Advanced  |  Accessibility  and turn on  Live Caption . For the moment, Live Caption on Chrome is available only in English, though Google added French, German, Portuguese and Spanish to Live Caption in Meet late last year.

Verizon, social media sites show their subtitles

The idea of making it easier to enjoy online video by reading along is catching on. Reading English in addition to hearing it can help people learning English as a second language, and at least one study has shown that it can help some people listen better and concentrate more.

Verizon , the wireless carrier with the most customers in the U.S. and owner of websites Yahoo and AOL, has added captions to all video on its sites. Unlike with Google, you don't have to go to settings to make them play. They are standard on all videos. Verizon has announced plans to sell its media companies, but no changes are expected in the short term.

Instagram , the third most popular social media app behind YouTube and Facebook, introduced captions stickers for its stories this month that automatically transcribe speech in videos. Users add the captions sticker to a video they create and can change the caption's color, font, position and size as well as edit the subtitle text. The stickers soon will be available for its Reels videos, too.

Even TikTok , the smartphone app that appeals mostly to teens and young adults, has added captions, a move the company said it was doing to make “ TikTok more accessible  to everyone.”

"We're currently undertaking an accessibility assessment to identify additional areas for improvement. And we're increasing our outreach to organizations and communities with disabilities on TikTok to uplift their voices and make changes that better serve us all,” the company says.

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Turn it on for YouTube, streaming

Live captions are just one of the  many accessibility features  that recently have been released or are coming soon. Most captioning, like Google's Live Caption, are hidden in settings that need to be changed to work, but many are very useful and worth nothing.

Rival internet browsers Firefox and Safari don't offer live captions for video and audio, but if you stick with the top video players, you can easily see them.

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•  YouTube . Transcripts for most YouTube videos are available once you click to open them. On YouTube, directly under the video player, on the right side of the screen, directly next to  Share  and  Save  are three dots. Click the dots, and the menu choices are to either report an issue or access the transcript. Once you click for the captions, they will play in real time with the video. You'll also notice that many YouTube videos have a CC on the lower right corner of the video screen. Clicking that on — a red bar will appear underneath — will present you with closed captions.

•  Netflix . Viewers of the most  popular subscription streaming service  need to press up or down on the remote once a movie or TV show starts playing on a TV to see the menu offering captions. From there you'll be able to select captions.

•  Amazon Prime Video . Once your selection has started playing, tap  Menu | Subtitles | On . Now you'll be able to read along with the actors.

Caption your Zoom meetings, too

What about live subtitles for your  Zoom meetings ?

Google's new captions feature doesn't work with the most popular video meeting service, Zoom. And Zoom itself doesn't offer live captions to everyone, yet. The company says it will start offering live captions in the fall. However, it's making the service available now “upon request,” to people who fill out  this form .

Third-party services like Otter can be added to your Zoom to provide live transcripts on calls. Many people will be fine with the free account that offers transcripts for 600 minutes a month of Zoom meetings, but you won't get transcriptions beyond the 40-minute mark of each meeting for free. To get free live captions, open Otter in a web browser and don't wear headphones. Otter needs to hear the audio from Zoom to begin generating the live transcriptions.

How to hear web pages

Also useful is a feature that reads web pages and news articles to you. Perhaps you have some vision loss, may be taking a walk or are driving and are unable to look at a story. Having a computerized voice read to you could come in handy.

*  On Android  mobile devices such as the Samsung Galaxy, use your voice to kick in the feature by saying, “Hey, Google, read this article.” It's part of Google Assistant on every Android phone.

*  On iPhones,  download the free Google app, search for what you want to read and tap the search result you want. Then next to the URL at the top right of the page, tap the read aloud icon, which looks like a person with curved sound lines near the head. You can choose to  Listen now  or  Add to queue  in your media player that's part of the app. The feature doesn't work with the Google Chrome browser app or other mobile browsers like Apple's Safari or Firefox.

*  On Macintosh computers,  Apple's VoiceOver is a built-in screen reader that speaks text aloud from what's on your screen.

*  On Windows computers,  the feature is called Narrator, and Microsoft notes that with Narrator, you can use your PC without a display.

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Use Live Caption in Chrome

Turn live caption on:.

• At the bottom of the Settings page, select Accessibility .
• Turn on Live Caption .

• To use live captions for videos that autoplay, turn on the video volume.

Turn Live Caption off:

• Turn off Live Caption .

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:

• In your computer's system preferences, select your customization.

Related Resources

• Use TalkBack to browse the web with Chrome  
• Use Chrome with accessibility extensions
• Change text, image and video sizes (zoom)
• Get image descriptions on Chrome

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How to turn off automatic live captions in google chrome.

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Temporarily disable chrome's live captions, permanently stop chrome's live captions.

Are you not a big fan of Google Chrome's Live Captions , which displays the text version of your media files? If so, it's easy to turn this feature off both temporarily and permanently. We'll show you how to do just that.

Related: How to Get Live Captions For Any Video or Audio in Chrome

You can turn off Chrome's Live Captions for a specific playback session while keeping it enabled for all other sessions.

To close the live captions when they're displayed, in the top-right corner of Chrome's Live Captions box, click the "X" icon.

Live captions will immediately disappear from your screen, and you can enjoy your media playback without any interruptions.

To get the live captions back, refresh your web page.

Related: How to Use Live Captions on a Google Pixel Phone

If you don't wish to see live captions for any of your media playbacks in Chrome, turn the feature off permanently and it won't bother you anymore.

To do that, from Chrome's top-right corner, select the three dots.

In the three-dots menu, click "Settings."

On the "Settings" screen, from the left sidebar, select "Advanced."

In the expanded "Advanced" menu, click "Accessibility."

On the right pane, in the "Accessibility" pane, turn off the "Live Caption" option.

And you're all set. Going forward, Chrome won't display any captions for your media playbacks in the browser. Enjoy!

If you want, you can turn off live captions on YouTube as well. Check out our guide to learn how.

Related: How to Turn On (or Off) Closed Captions on YouTube

How To : Generate Live Captions for Any Streaming Video or Audio File Using Chrome's Desktop App

Captions are great for catching every word and important sound in a movie or TV show, but now there's a way in Google Chrome 's desktop browser to enjoy captions for any audio file or source. You could ensure you never mishear a comment during an online meeting, and you could even follow along to a song's lyrics on platforms that don't already have in-sync lyrics, such as SoundCloud .

Anything that you can watch or listen to in Chrome is fair game.

Google's "Live Capture" feature was previously only available on its Pixel lineup with Android 10 and has since made its way to other big-name Android smartphones, but "Live Capture" for desktop use just dropped as a server-side update on March 18 to stable Chome 89 versions.

The feature uses machine learning to provide real-time captions for any audio source in English, and it doesn't require any audio input to work. That means you can use Live Caption with headphones in or with your computer muted entirely.

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If you have an iPad, iPhone, or unsupported Android device, you won't find any captioning features hiding in your OS or Chrome browser, so you'll need to keep your caption-filled lifestyle to your Mac, PC, Pixel , Samsung Galaxy S20 , S21 , OnePlus 8 , 8T , Nord , and other supported Android devices for now.

Setting Up Live Caption in Desktop Chrome

First, click the vertical ellipsis on your menu bar, then choose "Settings." Next, click "Advanced," then select "Accessibility." Alternatively, you could go directly to chrome://settings/accessibility in your omnibox. Here, you should find "Live Caption" as the first option on the page. Just enable the toggle to get started.

Using Live Captions in Desktop Chrome

The next time you play an audio source in English, you'll see a Live Caption box appear on-screen. Live Caption will try its best to keep up with whatever is being spoken in your audio source, whether that be a podcast, song, movie, or lecture. At this time, it won't be perfect and can even crash occasionally.

So if a video, podcast, or other media format has closed captioning options built-in, you should use that for more accurate transcriptions. Many YouTube videos have the option, as well as most other streaming video services. But Live Caption is the next best thing for YouTube videos without a "CC" button, platforms without subtitles (like SoundCloud), podcasts, and more.

If you want to expand the window to see more of the captions at once, you can click on the arrow at the bottom of the Live Caption window. Clicking this arrow again will return the window to its original minimized form. You can also click and drag to reposition the window if needed.

Turning Off Live Caption in Desktop Chrome

If you like Live Caption but don't always need it, there are a couple of ways to disable it temporarily. Firstly, you can simply click the (x) in the Live Caption window. This will disable Live Caption for your current audio source. However, the next time you pull up an audio source, you'll see Live Caption appear again.

To disable Live Captions for all audio sources, you'll need to click the playback icon in Chrome's toolbar, which should be next to any extensions you have installed, if any. Below the playback controls, you'll see a toggle for Live Caption. Disable this toggle, and Live Caption will not activate on any future audio sources until you reenable it.

Of course, you can always permanently disable Live Caption by flipping the switch back off in chrome://settings/accessibility . That said, if you think you'll want to use Live Caption in the future, disabling it from the playback window is a much more convenient choice.

Good to know: Live Captions do not work in Zoom . You can launch a Zoom call from Chrome's browser, but it will always open in the Zoom app on your computer. Other chat platforms such as Skype and Google Meet already have built-in captioning tools you can activate. However, you may be able to use it on Slack calls in Chrome and on other audio and video messaging services.

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Thank you. It's great to know about how this technology is evolving. Do you know if it is the same accuracy rate as the you tube auto captioning latest? Same technology? Actually I have an existing audio and text file that were recorded separately and am trying to find an efficient way to sync the two. You tube does this but my chapters are longer than hour increments and would prefer to do it offline. Traditional subtitling, unless it will do 20 or 30 pages at a time, is just too much work for me at this time in my life.

I installed the extension and it is remarkable. My audio is very consistent w no background noise, etc., so it's easier but, still, I am definitely impressed. Some problems with putting a period at the end of a sentence and then capitalizing the 1st character in the next sentence but the transcription was so good that didn't bother me. Especially since all I did was drag the mp3 onto the browser. Hard Work!

Then watching some You Tube and there it was too. Imagine not having to constantly download srt files in Kodi or wherever. I'm really glad I found you to tell me about this.

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Jill Stein's remark about a homeland for Jewish people did not refer to Poland | Fact check

The claim: Jill Stein said Jewish people have a homeland in Poland and only 0.1% of Jews are Zionists

An April 26 post on Threads ( direct link , archive link ) shares a video of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein speaking outside an entrance to Columbia University during protests in support of Palestinians.

“Jill Stein says that the Jewish people have a homeland in Poland and that .1 percent of Jews are Zionists,” the post reads in part.

The post was liked more than 200 times in a week.

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Stein did not say either of those things in the clip. An automatic captioning program erroneously quoted her as saying Jewish people “have Poland” when she said they “have homeland.” She also did not say 0.1% of Jews are Zionists.

Campaign posted video with inaccurate caption

The post shares a clip of Stein speaking April 25 just outside Columbia, where students and others have been protesting in support of Palestinians . Stein was discussing Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip when a man interrupted her. The man, who identified himself as Jewish, tells Stein she is among “the 1%" of Jews who oppose Israel’s actions. During the exchange , he says Jewish people only have Israel as a homeland and Stein counters the claim.

The social media post misrepresents what Stein says – due in part to erroneous captioning of a video posted to Stein’s X account . Her remarks were transcribed as “Jewish people have Poland,” but it is clear she says “homeland” and never names a country.

Jason Call , Stein’s campaign manager and a Green Party congressional candidate in Washington, told USA TODAY that the posts saying she called Poland a Jewish homeland are absolutely wrong.

“It was just an auto caption that recognized ‘Poland' instead of 'homeland' and our video editor simply did not catch the error,” he wrote in an email. “It was recaptioned and reposted very shortly after.”

A post to X on April 26 had corrected captioning, and Call pointed to his own post on April 27 of Stein discussing her thoughts about a Jewish homeland in further detail during a campaign event in Missouri.

Jewish settlement on the land that today makes up Poland dates back more than 1,000 years, largely from people fleeing oppression of Jews in central and western Europe, according to the World Jewish Congress . More than 3 million Jews living in Poland at the start of World War II were killed by the Germans during the war, according to the Holocaust Encyclopedia .

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Stein also did not say that 0.1% of Jewish people were Zionists. The term at its core refers to people who believe in establishing and maintaining a Jewish homeland in Israel , although there are different definitions of what that entails.

In the video clip, after the exchange about “homeland,” she says to the camera, “Ignore that 0.1% who is mandating genocide right now."

She goes on to speak about a “misguided Zionist movement,” but that is not the same as saying that 0.1% of Jews are Zionists.

USA TODAY reached out to the social media user who shared the claim for comment but did not immediately receive a response. In the post, the user pointed to the faulty caption as the basis for the claim and said Stein had an “odd pronunciation of ‘Poland.’”

The Associated Press also debunked the claim.

Our fact-check sources:

• Jason Call , May 3, Email exchange with USA TODAY
• Jason Call, April 27, Post on X
• Jill Stein, April 25, Post on X
• Jill Stein, April 26, Post on X

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The moment a judge threatened Trump with jail, from the trial transcript

“Mr. Trump, it’s important to understand that the last thing I want to do is to put you in jail,” New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said at the trial.

New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan warned Monday that Donald Trump could face jail time , saying that if the former president continued to violate a gag order the court would be forced to consider incarcerating him.

Trump is charged with falsifying business records to cover up an alleged affair with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. He has pleaded not guilty.

The jail warning came after the judge found Trump in contempt of court – the 10th time he violated a gag order restricting him from commenting on witnesses, jurors and prosecutors involved in the hush money trial, as well as family members of the judge or Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg .

Here are key moments from that part of the court proceedings, based on an early trial transcript and lightly edited for brevity and clarity.

Merchan rules Trump committed 10th violation

The judge opened by speaking directly to the former president and his team of lawyers, addressing the prosecution’s claims that Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, had repeatedly violated the court gag order in public statements in late April.

Merchan : Mr. Trump, as you know, the prosecution has filed three separate motions asking this Court to find you in contempt. In a moment, I am going to hand down my decision on the third motion, in which I find you in criminal contempt for the 10th time.

Merchan, while he rejected some of prosecutors’ assertions, found that one of Trump’s statements did violate the court’s gag order and fined him $1,000.

He was referring to Trump’s comments criticizing the selection and makeup of his jury in an April 22 interview with Real America’s Voice . “The jury was picked so fast — 95 percent Democrats,” Trump said at the time. “The area’s mostly all Democrat. You think of it as a — just a purely Democrat area. It’s a very unfair situation, that I can tell you.”

In his written order , Merchan found that Trump had questioned the integrity and legitimacy of proceedings, raising the “specter of fear” for jurors and their loved ones.

Trump shook his head shortly after the judge issued the contempt order.

Merchan says he will consider jail time

The judge said that financial penalties didn’t appear to be deterring Trump from ignoring the gag order. Trump has so far been fined $1,000 for each of the 10 violations , the maximum allowed. Merchan said the court could be forced to consider other options — though he added that this is the “last thing” he wants to do.

Merchan : It appears that the $1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent; therefore, going forward, this Court will have to consider a jail sanction if recommended.

In his written order , the judge warned Trump that gag violations are punishable by up to 30 days in jail.

Merchan: Mr. Trump, it’s important to understand that the last thing I want to do is to put you in jail. You are the former president of the United States and possibly the next president, as well.

Merchan explains why jail is ‘truly a last resort’

The judge expressed hesitation over putting Trump behind bars, not least because of how it could impact the trial.

Merchan : There are many reasons why incarceration is truly a last resort for me. To take that step would be disruptive to these proceedings, which I imagine you want to end as quickly as possible.

He also alluded to the wider ramifications of jailing a presumptive presidential nominee in an already-fraught election year, expressing concern for the court workers, prison guards and Secret Service agents who would be required to enforce a jail order.

Trump hush money trial

Merchan : I also worry about the people who would have to execute that sanction: the court officers, the correction officers, the Secret Service detail, among others. I worry about them and about what would go into executing such a sanction. Of course, I’m also aware of the broader implications of such a sanction. The magnitude of such a decision is not one-sided.

Nevertheless, Merchan said that Trump’s violations ultimately represented a direct challenge to the rule of law, requiring him to consider a jail request if appropriate.

Merchan : But, at the end of the day, I have a job to do, and part of that job is to protect the dignity of the judicial system and compel respect. Your continued violations of this court’s lawful order threaten to interfere with the administration of justice in constant attacks which constitute a direct attack on the rule of law. I cannot allow that to continue. So, as much as I do not want to impose a jail sanction, and I have done everything I can to avoid doing so, I want you to understand that I will, if necessary and appropriate.

After Monday’s court session finished, Trump described the gag order as “disgraceful.”

“I have to watch every word I tell you people,” he told reporters outside, while also implying that he would be willing to face jail time. “Our Constitution is much more important than jail. It’s not even close. I’ll do that sacrifice any day,” he said.

Devlin Barrett, Tom Jackman, Shayna Jacobs and Marianne LeVine contributed to this report.

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Former president Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial is underway in New York. Follow live updates from the trial .

Jury selection: A full jury of 12 jurors and six alternates has been seated. Here’s what we know about the jurors .

The case: The investigation involves a $130,000 payment made to Stormy Daniels, an adult-film actress , during the 2016 presidential campaign. It’s one of many ongoing investigations involving Trump . Here are some of the key people in the case .

The charges: Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Falsifying business records is a felony in New York when there is an “intent to defraud” that includes an intent to “commit another crime or to aid or conceal” another crime. He has pleaded not guilty . Here’s what to know about the charges — and any potential sentence .

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