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These instructions explain how to automatically generate live captions in your Chrome web browser, including people speaking in a live Collaborate session.

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  • Windows (the instructions don't cover macOS at the moment but a similar process does , but the combination of VB-Cable and Web Captioner do work there)
  • Google Chrome web browser (Web Captioner uses Google's speech-to-text service, which is only available in Chrome)
  • You must have administrator permissions on your computer and be able to install software on your computer

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Privacy: When using Web Captioner, audio is sent to Google's speech-to-text service and captions are sent back to the browser. For more info read Web Captioner's privacy page.

Steps

Download VB-CABLE. (if you want more info on what this is you can find it here).

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