If you’ve got a quiet environment happening around you when you’re watching a video or just want your audio to be silent you can still see what’s happening in your video with Windows live captions. Live captions works across Windows 11 making it seamless to read captions while working in other apps.
Captions are provided for audio even when you’re disconnected from the internet. Live captions also provides translations on Copilot+ PCs, translating any live or pre-recorded video in any app or video platform from over 40 languages into English and 27 languages into Chinese. Here’s how you turn it on and personalize it.
What to do:
- Press the Windows Key + Ctrl + L to turn on live captions. If it’s the first time you’ve used live captions, you’ll be asked to set it up. Go ahead and click on Setup.
- Select the Settings button in the live captions window.
- Select Position. Now choose either Above screen, Below screen or Overlaid on screen. When you choose the Above screen or Below screen the caption screen will appear as docked to the top and bottom of the screen edges. When you choose the Overlaid on screen option live captions will appear in an overlay window which you can reposition as needed to avoid obscuring other apps in use.
You can also customize the captions to make them easier to read.
- Select the Settings button in the live captions window.
- Select Preferences then Caption style.
- Select a built-in style from the drop-down menu. The default built-in style will display captions in the colors that fit your device’s dark or light mode settings.
- Or select the Edit button to create a custom style that works for you.
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