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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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, while solution #2 currently provides improved captioning.

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

Requirement: Google Chrome web browser

Copy and paste the following into the location bar in Chrome and then press enter.

chrome://flags#enable-accessibility-live-captions

You should see the following:

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Set Live Captions to Enabled and select the Relaunch button.

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In Chrome, select the Customize button at the top right (the ellipses button, three dots), select Settings, at the very bottom select Advanced, scroll down to Accessibility and enable Get captions for your media, and then close Settings.

Done.

Most web pages with speech audio in Chrome should 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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If you'd like to disable this captioning feature in Chrome, return to the Accessibility section in Settings and disable Get captions for your media.

Solution #2: How to generate automatic live captioning using Web Captioner

Requirements

• Windows (the instructions don't cover macOS at the moment but a similar process does work there)
• Google Chrome web browser
• 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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