Chrome Live Captions

Overview

Chrome has a Live Captioning feature that provide AI powered, English Language captioning for any audio streaming through Chrome.

Installation/Activation

Google produced a video on how to enable this feature that explains it beautifully:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDP8a5s8yaU

Notes / Gotchas

• The captions are good, but not perfect. Be aware that the captions are not split out by source in any way - they are simply displayed as a stream of words in the order that the AI hears them. In a conversation with only a few people, this works pretty well, but can get messy when there is extra audio.
• Nearby conversations can be partially picked up and muddy the transcription. It may be necessary to stand a little further off if there is another conversation happening close by.
• On a Mac, the display of the captions actually ties into a users' accessibility settings at a system level.
  • The positioning and styling of the captions can be highly customized, but this is done through the MacOS system accessibility settings, rather than any settings in NOWHERE or in Chrome .

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