Try Translated Captions in Google Meet

You can use translated captions to translate spoken English into these languages:

French
German
Portuguese
Spanish

Translated captions are currently only available for the following Workspace editions:

Business Plus
Enterprise Starter
Enterprise Standard
Enterprise Plus
Teaching & Learning Upgrade
Education Plus

If your Workspace organizations signed up to beta test translated captions, you can continue to test more languages and send feedback. To opt out, use this form.

Turn on translated captions

Important: Translated captions are currently available for video calls in spoken English. To use translated captions, “Captions” should be set to English and “Translated Captions” should be set to one of the translated languages.

1. Tap the screen so that call controls appear.

2. Tap More and then Show captions . You get an on-screen prompt that says "Captions are starting."

3. Tap More and then Settings .

4. Under “Live Captions,” tap Translation language.

5. Select a language:

French
German
Portuguese
Spanish

A check mark appears next to the language you’ve selected.

6. To return to the main screen, tap Return and then Close .

Translated captions should now be on-screen in your selected language.

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