Translate speech to text with Live Caption

With a single tap, Alive Caption automatically captions spoken communication on your device. Y'all tin can use it on media like videos, podcasts, telephone calls, video calls, and audio letters.

Contents

Plow on Live Caption

Movement the caption box

Alter Alive Caption settings

Blazon responses during a telephone call

Battery utilise & other notes

Get aid

Turn on Live Caption

Live Caption works:

  • On Pixel 2 and after phones in English
  • On Pixel 6 & Pixel vi Pro phones in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, & Spanish
    • On Pixel 6 & Pixel 6 Pro phones, you can besides identify these languages and translate media captions automatically through auto detection
  • On other select Android phones

To plough Live Caption on or off:

  1. Printing the book push button.
  2. Under the volume controls, tap Live Caption Live Caption Subtitles.

When Alive Caption is on, captions appear for speech in media playing on your device.

On Pixel phones, captions also appear during calls. The person on the other finish of the call is notified with a voice announcement that captions are on.

All captions are processed locally, never stored, and never go out your device.

Tip: If you lot don't find "Live Caption," you might need to update your Android System Intelligence. Android System Intelligence was previously called "Device Personalization Services." If you observe the previous name in the Play Store, you can still update the app.

Motion the caption box

  • To move the caption box: Affect and concur, and so elevate upwardly or downwards.
  • To hide captions and plow off Alive Caption: Elevate the caption box off the bottom of your screen.
  • To aggrandize or contract the caption box: Double-tap. This move isn't available while you're on a call.

Change Live Caption settings

  1. On your device, open Settings .
  2. Tap Sound and then Live Explanation.
  3. Under Settings, you lot can observe or modify these settings:
    • Turn Alive Explanation on or off.
    • Hibernate or bear witness profanity.
    • Hide or show sound labels, such as laughter and applause.
    • Hide or show the Live Caption icon in volume control.
    • Plough telephone call captioning on or off. This setting is for Pixel phones only.

Tip: To change the caption size, fashion, and color, become to explanation preferences.

Type responses during a telephone call

Important: Available on Pixel 6 & Pixel half dozen Pro only.

Apply this feature to brand calls without speech. You go captions of what the other person says and you tin blazon in responses in real fourth dimension. Your letters are read aloud past the organisation. This feature doesn't interpret and only allows yous to converse in your current language.

To turn type responses on:

  1. On your phone, open up Settings .
  2. Tap Accessibilit y and then Alive Caption.
  3. Turn on Type responses during calls.

During calls, a notification informs you lot that call captions is on. To start typing, tap Keyboard Keyboard.

Bombardment utilize & other notes

When you're on calls or when you play media, Alive Caption uses more battery. Live Caption turns off automatically in battery saver fashion.

Other notes about Live Explanation:

  • Live Caption isn't intended for calls with more than one other person.
  • During calls, if you mute your side during the captions disclosure declaration, the announcement is muted. Make sure that the other person knows captions are on.
  • Captions might exist unavailable for some media and calling apps.
  • Live Caption works best on sound with clear oral communication and low background dissonance.
  • Live Explanation doesn't work on music.
  • Alive Explanation doesn't use mobile data or an net connectedness. All audio and captions are processed on the device and are never stored or sent to Google.

Get more help

For more assistance with Alive Caption, contact the Google Disability Support squad.