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.
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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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- People speak at a regular pace or slower (not too quickly)
- People speak clearly
- People speak with a good quality microphone. And if they're transmitting their audio live over the internet then they should also have a good quality internet connection and avoid using wireless.
- There is no background music or noise or it's as quiet as possible.Volume in Windows and the application (e.g., Collaborate, YouTube) is set to 100%. You can change the volume of your speakers or microphone to anything you'd like, as explained above under the "how to change the volume of your speakers or headset..." heading.
Web Captioner isn't working at all (nothing is being captioned)
- Reboot the computer and try it again.
- Ensure Windows Volume is not muted
- Ensure that you're using the Chrome web browser.
- If you want to caption a specific program's audio (e.g., Zoom), ensure that the audio output device for that program is set to CABLE Input.More suggestions coming.. and that the volume in the program isn't muted.