Use live captions in Google Meet


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You can turn on live captions to view subtitles as everyone speaks while in a meeting. The captions are turned on only for you.

To translate to and from specific languages, learn how to use translated captions in Google Meet.

All users can use captions in these languages
  • Afrikaans (beta)
  • Albanian (beta)
  • Amharic (beta)
  • Arabic (Arab Emirates) (beta)
  • Arabic (Egypt) (beta)
  • Arabic (Levant) (beta)
  • Arabic (Maghrebi) (beta)
  • Armenian (beta)
  • Australian English (beta)
  • Azerbaijani (beta)
  • Basque (beta)
  • Bengali (Bangladesh) (beta)
  • Bulgarian (Bulgaria) (beta)
  • Burmese (beta)
  • Catalan (beta)
  • Chinese (Mandarin, Traditional)
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Czech (beta)
  • Dutch
  • English
  • English (India) (beta)
  • English (Philippines) (beta)
  • English (UK)
  • Estonian (beta)
  • Farsi (beta)
  • Filipino (beta)
  • Finnish
  • French
  • French (Canada)
  • Galician (beta)
  • Georgian (beta)
  • German
  • Greek (beta)
  • Gujarati (India) (beta)
  • Hebrew
  • Hindi
  • Hungarian (beta)
  • Icelandic (beta)
  • Indonesian (beta)
  • isiXhosa (South Africa) (beta)
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Javanese (beta)
  • Kannada (India) (beta)
  • Kazakh (beta)
  • Khmer (Cambodia) (beta)
  • Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) (beta)
  • Korean
  • Lao (beta)
  • Latvian (beta)
  • Lithuanian (beta)
  • Macedonian (beta)
  • Malay (beta)
  • Malayalam (India) (beta)
  • Marathi (India) (beta)
  • Mongolian (beta)
  • Nepali (beta)
  • Northern Sotho (South Africa) (beta)
  • Norwegian (beta)
  • Polish
  • Portuguese
  • Portuguese (Brazil)
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian (beta)
  • Sesotho (South Africa) (beta)
  • Sinhala (beta)
  • Slovak (beta)
  • Slovenian (beta)
  • Spanish (Mexico)
  • Spanish (Spain)
  • Sundanese (beta)
  • Swahili (beta)
  • Swati (South Africa) (beta)
  • Swedish (Sweden)
  • Tamil (India) (beta)
  • Telugu (India) (beta)
  • Thai
  • Tshivenda (South Africa) (beta)
  • Tswana (South Africa) (beta)
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian (beta)
  • Urdu (beta)
  • Uzbek (beta)
  • Vietnamese
  • Xitsonga (South Africa) (beta)
  • Zulu (beta)

Turn live captions on or off

How to: Enable captions in Google Meet

  1. On your computer, go to Google Meet.
  2. Join a meeting.
  3. At the bottom, click Turn on captions or Turn off captions .

View past captions

If captions are turned on, you can review the captions of the previous parts of a conversation.

You can scroll up or down to review the captions. Captions only display for the parts of the conversation where you’re in the meeting and have captions turned on.

 
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