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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chrome://flags#enable-accessibility-live-captions
You should see the following:
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In Chrome, select the Customize button at the top right (the ellipses button, three dots), select Settings, at and on the very bottom left select Advanced, scroll down to Accessibility and enable and then Accessibility. Enable Get captions for your media, and then close Settings.
Done.!
Most web pages with speech audio in Chrome should will now display automatically generated live captions at the bottom. This caption feature will ignore videos that already have captioning functionality, such as videos in YouTube. If you have a video or audio file you can usually drag it onto Chrome, Chrome will play the file and display captions (doesn't work with all video formats).
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- Windows (the instructions don't cover macOS at the moment but a similar process does 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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At this point Web Captioner should be working. If it's not working refer to the Troubleshooting section below.
Please continue Continue reading the following information that is important in understanding how to use Web Captioner and how to manage your Windows audio settings.
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