If you have a quiet environment around you when you watch a video or just want the audio to be silent, you can still see what’s happening in the video with Windows Live Captions. Live captions work across Windows 11, making it easier to read captions while working in other apps.
Audio captions are provided even when you are offline. Live Captions also provides subtitles on Copilot+ PCs, translating any live or pre-recorded video in any app or video platform from over 40 languages to English and 27 languages to Chinese. Here’s how to turn it on and customize it.
What to do:
- Click on Windows key + Ctrl + L To turn on live captions. If this is your first time using live captions, you’ll be prompted to set them up. Go ahead and click on Prove.
- Select Settings button in the Live Captions window.
- He chooses position. Now choose either above the screen, bottom of the screen or Overlaid on the screen. When you select Screen Top or Screen Bottom, the caption screen will appear as it is attached to the top and bottom edges of the screen. When you choose the Overlaid on screen option, your live captions will appear in an overlaid window that you can reposition as needed to avoid blocking other apps in use.
You can also customize the captions to make them easier to read.
- Select Settings button in the Live Captions window.
- He chooses Preferences then Caption style.
- Select a built-in style from the drop-down list. The default combined mode will display captions in colors that match your device’s dark or light mode settings.
- Or select Edit Button to create a custom style that suits you.
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