These instructions explain how to automatically generate live captions in your Chrome web browser for any audio/video that is playing on your computer, 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 audio/video playing in Chrome, while solution #2 currently provides improved captioning and can caption audio/video playing from any program on your computer.

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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At the bottom right select the Start Captioning button. When Web Captioner asks to use your microphone, grant it permission to do so.

Done!

Web Captioner should now display the captions of any voice audio that is playing on your computer, including a live Collaborate session.

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