After making the Live Caption feature available in its Pixel Phones on Android, Google is now bringing it to Chome browser on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS platforms. What this means is Chrome will automatically detect speech in media and generate captions for all media playing in the browser if users enable ‘Live caption’ switch in accessibility settings.
Accessibility wise, Google Chrome for screen reader users already allows generating descriptions for the images that don’t have alt text, and the Chrome browser also links to Windows 10 Captions from its Accessibility Settings to allow users to customize the way closed captions appear in the browser.
Enable Live Caption feature in the Chrome browser
1. Launch latest Chrome Canary 84.0.4136.2 or later
2. Visit chrome://flags page.
3. Search for live, select Enabled for the highlighted “Live Captions” flag
4. Restart the browser
Note: Google offers this description for the flag on Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS: “Enables the live captions feature which generates caption for media playing in Chrome. ”
5. Click on menu > Settings > Advanced
6. Select Accessibility or visit chrome://settings/Accessibility page, and enable Live caption.
Chrome’s LIve caption feature could be useful for deaf or other people who learn non-native languages.
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