Live captions in Hangouts Meet
What’s changing
Google is making meetings more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing users by launching live captions in Hangouts Meet.
Who’s impacted
End users
Why you’d use it
Live captions help make your meetings more accessible by reducing barriers to holding meetings between users of different hearing abilities, regardless of whether they are participating remotely or in person.
How to get started
- Admins: No action required.
- End users:
- On the web and on Chromebase for meetings touchscreen devices, navigate to the triple-dot menu at the bottom right corner of your screen and select the option to turn on captions.
- On devices with a Mimo touchscreen and Chromebox for meetings with the remote, you can find the toggle to turn on captions in the Settings menu.
Additional details
Live captions is available across different Hangouts Meet-compatible platforms, such as on the web, devices with a Mimo touchscreen, Chromebox for meetings with the remote, and on Chromebase for meetings touchscreen devices.
When you turn on captions, they will be visible on that particular device. In order for other participants in the meeting to see captions, they’ll have to turn it on for their devices as well.
Currently, live captions is only available in English. Additionally, captions will not appear in a recording of a meeting.
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