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

These instructions will discuss two different solutions for generating live captions. The first solution will use a beta feature built into Google Chrome and the second solution will use a web service called Web Captioner.

Solution #1: is simpler to set up and will only caption easier to setup and doesn't require messing with your Windows audio settings, but the captioning isn't as good and it only captions audio/video playing in Chrome, while solution #2 currently . Solution #2 currently provides improved captioning and , can caption audio/video playing from any program on your computer, but it's more complicated to set up and involved changing the behaviour of how the sound settings work in Windows.

Solution #1: How to generate automatic live captioning using only Google Chrome

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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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