Captions for anything you hear in Chrome.

Captions for videos, video calls and in-person talks. Translation into 190 languages.

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Free captions, no account needed. Works in Chrome and Edge.

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Caption what you hear.

Videos and online meetings

Play it, open Live Captions, choose Tab audio and press Start. Works on almost any website, even with your sound muted or headphones on.

Video calls in two languages

On Zoom, Teams and Google Meet, you read what they say in your language, and they read you in theirs. Only you need the extension.

See how it works →

Classes and talks in the room

Switch to Microphone to caption whoever is speaking. Put it on a projector so the whole room can read along, including anyone hard of hearing.

Enhanced captions

Captions that hear what was said.
Translations that get it right.

Uses credit. Examples recreated from our side-by-side tests.

Names and places, spelled right

Place names, dishes and people's names come out the way they were said, even over traffic and crowd noise.

Free captions
walking through moncock looking for teams of restaurant
Enhanced captions
Walking through Mong Kok, looking for a dim sum restaurant.
Travel vlog · Hong Kong street

Reads like real text

Punctuation, capitals, and a new line at each pause or change of speaker.

Transcript
A+
Okay, let’s get started.
Today we’re making dumplings.
First, mix the flour and water.
Then let the dough rest. Twenty minutes is enough.
Any questions so far?
Cooking class · English

Keeps up with conversations

In a panel or roundtable, a new line starts each time the speaker changes, even when people talk over each other.

Live roundtable The future of the office
Transcript
A+
So is the office actually coming back?
For some teams, yes. Not for mine.
I’d push back on that a little.
Go ahead.
Most people I know want two days in, tops.
Two days. Okay, that’s a real shift.
Microphone mode · live roundtable

Translation from the right words

It starts from what was actually said, so the translation is far more accurate. 60 spoken languages, translated into 190.

Free captions
새우 씨 오늘 어땠어요
Shrimp, how was your day
Enhanced captions
세호 씨, 오늘 어땠어요?
Seho, how was your day?
Talk show · Korean → English
Video calls

You read them in your language.
They read you in theirs.

Translation uses credit.

Live Captions works on Zoom, Teams and Google Meet calls, even when you speak different languages. What they say is captioned for you, and what you say is captioned for them. They don't need to install anything.

Your screen
Yuki
注文はいつ発送できますか?
Daniel
When can you ship the order?

You read what your client said, in your language.

Your client's screen
Daniel
We can ship it Friday.
金曜日に発送できます。
Yuki

Your client reads what you said, in their language.

See how it works
Auto-detect

60 languages.
No need to choose.

Part of Enhanced captions. Uses credit.

Pick Auto-detect and Live Captions recognizes the spoken language by itself. It keeps up when speakers switch languages, or drop in a word or phrase from another one.

Language Auto-detect
Translate English
Transcript
A+
ES
Hola, ¿empezamos con las presentaciones?
EN
Hi, shall we start with introductions?
KO
네, 저는 서울에서 왔어요.
Yes, I’m from Seoul.
ES
¡Qué bien! Yo soy de Madrid.
Great! I’m from Madrid.
Y me encanta el kimchi, de verdad.
And I really love kimchi.

Captions where you want them.

Make the text bigger, show the original and translation as a chat, as subtitles, side by side, or the translation alone, and download the transcript when you're done.

On page

Captions over the page, like subtitles. Drag them anywhere.

Side panel

A running transcript in Chrome's side panel, next to the page, so nothing is covered.

Window

A running transcript in its own window. Move it to a second screen or a projector.

Try it free.
Then from $4.99 a month.

One Google account for both apps. Your hours work in Chrome on your computer and in the app on your phone.

Free

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  • Captions in ChromeNo account needed. 80 spoken languages, plus regional varieties like US, UK and Indian English.Free
  • 10 minutes of translationSigning in starts your free trial. No card needed. Use it in Chrome or in the app.Free

Translation and Enhanced captions

  • 10 hours a month$4.99
  • 25 hours a month$9.99
  • 60 hours a month$19.99

Cancel anytime: you keep your hours until the month ends. Credit pauses when nothing's playing.

One-time packs and 100 hours

  • 5 hours, one-time$5
  • 20 hours, one-time$14
  • 100 hours a month$32.99

Questions

Is it free?

Captions are free, with no account. Translation and Enhanced captions use credit. Signing in starts a free trial, no card needed.

Which languages?

Free captions: 80 spoken languages. Enhanced captions: 60, translated into 190.

The 60 languages

  • Afrikaans
  • Albanian Shqip
  • Arabic العربية
  • Azerbaijani Azərbaycan
  • Basque Euskara
  • Belarusian Беларуская
  • Bengali বাংলা
  • Bosnian Bosanski
  • Bulgarian Български
  • Catalan Català
  • Chinese (Simplified) 中文
  • Croatian Hrvatski
  • Czech Čeština
  • Danish Dansk
  • Dutch Nederlands
  • English
  • Estonian Eesti
  • Filipino
  • Finnish Suomi
  • French Français
  • Galician Galego
  • German Deutsch
  • Greek Ελληνικά
  • Gujarati ગુજરાતી
  • Hebrew עברית
  • Hindi हिन्दी
  • Hungarian Magyar
  • Indonesian Indonesia
  • Italian Italiano
  • Japanese 日本語
  • Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ
  • Kazakh Қазақ тілі
  • Korean 한국어
  • Latvian Latviešu
  • Lithuanian Lietuvių
  • Macedonian Македонски
  • Malay Melayu
  • Malayalam മലയാളം
  • Marathi मराठी
  • Norwegian Norsk
  • Persian فارسی
  • Polish Polski
  • Portuguese (Brazil) Português
  • Punjabi (Gurmukhi) ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
  • Romanian Română
  • Russian Русский
  • Serbian Српски
  • Slovak Slovenčina
  • Slovenian Slovenščina
  • Spanish Español
  • Swahili Kiswahili
  • Swedish Svenska
  • Tamil தமிழ்
  • Telugu తెలుగు
  • Thai ไทย
  • Turkish Türkçe
  • Ukrainian Українська
  • Urdu اردو
  • Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
  • Welsh Cymraeg
Does the other person on my call need it?

No. Your captions travel to them via your video. Join the call in the browser, not the app, and keep your camera on.

Which browsers?

Chrome and Edge. In Brave and Opera, captions work through Enhanced captions, which use credit.

Where doesn't it work?

On Chrome Web Store, settings and new tab pages.

Try it on your next video.

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