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.

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 much easier to set up and doesn't require messing with modifying the configuration of your Windows audio settings, but the captioning isn't as good and it only captions audio/video playing in Chrome. Solution #2 currently provides improved captioning, . We recommend that you try this solution first to see if it meets your needs.

Solution #2 may provide provide improved captions and can caption audio/video playing from any program on your computer, but it's more complicated to set up and involves changing the behaviour of how the sound settings work in Windows.

Solution #1: How to generate automatic live

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captions using

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Google Chrome

Requirement: Google Chrome web browser

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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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