Live captions
Live captions in your browser: press Start and what your microphone hears appears on screen as large, easy-to-read text.
Free, and no daily minutes are used
Live captions need Chrome, Edge or Safari. In Firefox you can record and transcribe instead.
Press Start captions, and what your microphone hears appears here.
This browser can't keep the screen on, so it may dim while captions run.
Live captions use none of your daily minutes.
The microphone needs JavaScript. To transcribe a file you already have, use Audio to text.
Live captions put what your microphone hears on screen as it's said, in text big enough to read from across a room. For live captioning, pick the language being spoken and press Start. The newest words appear at the bottom while the last few lines stay in view, and the screen stays awake for as long as the captions run. Choose one of four text sizes, light or dark, and press Full screen to give the captions the whole display.
Questions
Are live captions free?
Yes, with no account, and they don't use any of the site's free minutes.
Which browsers do live captions work in?
Chrome, Edge and Safari. They don't work in Firefox, so there the page points you to record and transcribe instead.
Can it caption a video or a call playing on my computer?
Not directly. It listens to your microphone, not to the sound your computer plays. To caption the computer's own sound, turn on Live Caption in Chrome (Settings, then Accessibility) or Live captions in Windows 11.
Is this the same as Chrome's Live Caption?
No: Chrome's Live Caption captions audio and video playing in Chrome, and this page captions what your microphone hears. It works wherever you open it, on a phone or a computer, in Chrome, Edge or Safari, so you can caption a speaker in the room, a lecture or your own voice.
Can I save the captions?
Yes. Download .txt saves everything captioned in the session as a plain text file.