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Use live captions

Use live captions - Windows Tutorial

From the course: Windows 11 Essential Training (2023)

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Use live captions

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- [Tutor] Live Captions is an accessibility tool for people who have difficulty hearing audio. It can put text captions on screen for audio you play on your computer and it can even caption in-person conversations. To enable live captions, we'll need to go into settings. On the left, we'll go to the category for accessibility, then scroll down to the hearing section, click on captions, and then there is a switch here to turn live captions on. Now the first time you turn live captions on, you will have to agree to give it permission. It will be analyzing audio that you play on your computer, but it will be analyzing it locally on your computer. It does not send any of that data to Microsoft. So I am going to click Agree. And now the live captions panel is open at the top of the screen. Let's play some audio. So now the live captions panel is open at the top of the screen. Let's play some audio. I'll go over to my web browser where I have a webpage open, which has a video in it, but…

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