For accessibility purposes, you might want to add captions or subtitles to your presentations. This feature will transcribe your words as you speak and display them on-screen to your audience in Google Slides and PowerPoint, and even translate them in a chosen language in PowerPoint. You might also want captions whenever someone is talking in the room or playing a video which can be done in Chrome. We're going to explain to you how to do so.
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Add Captions in Google Slides
You can turn on automatic captions on Google Slides. Whenever you or another contributor will be talking during the presentation, your audience will see the captions in real-time.
Only English is supported at the moment. The feature is supported on Chrome devices.
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- Click on the Share button in your room.
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- Choose Share screen, then Chrome tab, and choose your Google Slides presentation tab .
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- Click on Present to start presenting the document.
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- Go to the lower-left corner of your screen and click on ⋮ > Caption preferences > Toggle captions.
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- Start talking, you will see the captions displayed at the bottom of your presentation. 🙌
Add Captions/Subtitles in PowerPoint
You can turn on automatic captions or subtitles on PowerPoint. Whenever you or another contributor will be talking in the room, your audience will see the captions or the subtitles in real-time.
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- Click on the Share button in your room.
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- Choose Share screen > Application Window and select your PowerPoint document.
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- On your PowerPoint document, click on Slide Show > Subtitle Settings.
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- Choose the spoken language and the subtitle language.
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- Click on Presenter view to start presenting your document.
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- Click on the subtitles icon to enable subtitles.
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- Start talking, you will see the captions/subtitles displayed at the bottom of the presentation. 🙌
Add Captions in Chrome
Directly in your Chrome browser, you can enable the Live Caption feature. You will have real-time captions whenever someone is talking in the room or if there's a video that is being shared. You won't see the captions when you're talking, you only see them if someone else is talking in the room.
Each participant must enable the Live Caption feature on Chrome if they need it during the event.
Only English is supported at the moment. The feature is supported on the latest version of Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
If a video is played in the room by either you or someone else, you'll see the captions.
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- Go to your Chrome settings.
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- Click on Advanced and then Accessibility.
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- Enable Live Caption.
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- You can customize the design of the captions by clicking on Caption preferences.
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- Restart your Chrome browser.
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- Whenever there's someone talking or audio in the room, you'll see the captions displayed at the bottom of your screen.
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- You can move the caption window or even close it if you don't need it anymore.
After closing the caption window, if you need the captions again, just refresh the room tab and it will be displayed again.