With a single tap, Live Caption automatically captions speech on your device. You can use it on media like videos, podcasts, phone calls, video calls, and audio messages.
Important:
- Some of these steps work only on Android 10 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.
- Some of these steps require you to touch the screen.
- Call captioning only works on Pixel phones.
Contents
Type responses during a phone call
Turn on Live Caption
Live Caption works on:
- Pixel 2 and later phones in English
- Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro phones in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish
- On Pixel 6 & Pixel 6 Pro phones, you can also identify these languages and translate media captions automatically through auto detection.
- Other select Android phones
To turn Live Caption on or off:
- Press the volume button.
- Under the volume controls, tap Live Caption
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.Tip: If these steps don't work, you may need to first turn on Live Caption in your device’s Accessibility settings.
When Live 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 end of the call is notified with a voice announcement that captions are on.
All captions are processed locally, never stored, and never leave your device.
Tip: If you 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 find the previous name in the Play Store, you can still update the app.
Move the caption box
- To move the caption box: Touch and hold, then drag up or down.
- To hide captions and turn off Live Caption: Drag the caption box off the bottom of your screen.
- To expand or contract the caption box: Double-tap. This movement isn’t available while you’re on a call.
Change Live Caption settings
- On your device, open Settings
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- Tap Sound
Live Caption.
- Under Settings, you can find or change these settings:
- Turn Live Caption on or off.
- Hide or show profanity.
- Hide or show sound labels, such as laughter and applause.
- Hide or show the Live Caption icon in volume control.
- Turn call captioning on or off. This setting is for Pixel phones only.
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Live Caption.Tip: To change the caption size, style, and color, go to caption preferences.
Type responses during a phone call
Important: Available on Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, and Pixel Fold only.
Use this feature to make calls without speech. You get captions of what the other person says and you can type in responses in real time. Your messages are read aloud by the system. This feature doesn’t translate and only allows you to converse in your current language.
- On your phone, open Settings
- Tap Accessibility
- Turn on Type responses during calls.
During calls, a notification informs you that call captions is on. To start typing, tap Keyboard 
Battery use & other notes
When you’re on calls or when you play media, Live Caption uses more battery. Live Caption turns off automatically in battery saver mode.
Other notes about Live Caption:
- Live Caption isn't intended for calls with more than one other person.
- During calls, if you mute your side during the captions disclosure announcement, the announcement is muted. Make sure that the other person knows captions are on.
- Captions might be unavailable for some media and calling apps.
- Live Caption works best on audio with clear speech and low background noise.
- Live Caption doesn't work on music.
- Live Caption doesn't use mobile data or an internet connection. All audio and captions are processed on the device and are never stored or sent to Google.
Get more help
For more help with Live Caption, contact the Google Disability Support team.