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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Solution #1 is much easier to set up and doesn't require modifying the configuration of your Windows audio settings. 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.
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You must be using Chrome version 89+ (version 89 was released in March, 2021).
This solution should work for any audio that is played through the Chrome browser. This works with Collaborate. This works with Zoom as long as you connect via the Chrome browser and not the application. You can even drag video files onto Chrome and they will usually play with captions.
Select the customize button at the top right (button with the three dots) and select Settings near the bottom of the drop-down menu.
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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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