Use translated captions in Google Meet

               

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You can use translated captions to translate to and from specific languages.

If you need subtitles in your meetings, learn how to use captions in Google Meet.

Important: We recently announced that Google AI features will be added directly to Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans. As part of this announcement, customers with Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus editions can continue to use translated captions through their existing subscriptions.

Availability for Google Workspace editions

Translated captions are currently only available for the following Workspace editions

• Business Standard
• Business Plus
• Enterprise Starter (available until 30 June 2025)
• Enterprise Standard
• Enterprise Plus
• Teaching and Learning Upgrade
• Education Plus

You can translate captions to or from these languages

Important: This feature is gradually rolling out and may not be available yet.

• Afrikaans
• Albanian
• Amharic
• Arabic
• Armenian
• Azerbaijani
• Basque
• Bengali
• Bulgarian
• Burmese
• Catalan
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese, Mandarin (Traditional)
• Czech
• Dutch
• English
• Estonian
• Filipino
• Finnish
• French
• Galician
• Georgian
• German
• Greek
• Gujarati (India)
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Icelandic
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Javanese
• Kannada (India)
• Kazakh
• Khmer (Cambodia)
• Korean
• Lao
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Macedonian
• Malay
• Malayalam
• Marathi
• Mongolian
• Nepali
• Norwegian
• Persian (Farsi)
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Sinhala
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Sundanese
• Swahili
• Swedish
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Urdu
• Uzbek
• Vietnamese
• Zulu

Turn on translated captions

1. To display call controls on your device when you're in a meeting, tap the screen.
2. Tap More controls Settings .
3. Turn on live captions .
4. Select the language of the call .
5. To go back to the previous screen, tap Settings.
6. Tap Translation language .
7. Select the language that you prefer to translate into.
8. To go back to the previous screen, tap Settings.
9. To return to the main screen, tap Done.

Tip: If you record a meeting, select Record captions to embed captions in the clip.