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These instructions explain how to automatically generate live captions (text of the audio content) in your Chrome web browser for most video/audio that lacks captions, live Collaborate sessions, and more.

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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

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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 You must be using Chrome version 89+ (version 89 was released in March, 2021).

Select the customize button at the top right (button with the ellipses button, three dots) , and select Settings.

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On the left, expand advanced and on the left select Advanced and then Accessibility. Enable Get captions for your media, and then close Settings.select accessibility.

Select the Live Caption toggle to enable it.

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Done!

Most web pages with speech audio in Chrome 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 and 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 mediadisable Live Caption.

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

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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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