“Automatic subtitles” appeared in Google Chrome for Windows, macOS and Linux

Google has officially announced the long-awaited Live Caption feature in its proprietary Chrome desktop browser.

Automatic subtitling for video and audio content will soon be available in Chrome for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Google originally introduced Live Caption in 2019 along with the Android 10 operating system. Automatic captioning lives up to its name – it automatically converts speech to text. For a long time it was “exclusive” for select smartphone models.

Last year, the function began to be tested in test builds of Chrome, and in February 2021 it appeared as an experimental one in the stable version of Chrome 88. Now the function does not need to be activated with a special flag on the test functions page chrome: // flags. It can be turned on and off in the section of additional settings of Chrome “Special. opportunities”.

Subtitles are available for a wide variety of sites – social media, video hosting, podcasts, internet radio, personal video libraries such as Google Photos (Google Photos), built-in video players, and most web versions of video or audio chat services.

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