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- You can stop Live Caption in Chrome by turning it off from the Accessibility section of Chrome’s Settings page.
- You can also turn Live Caption on or off from the Media icon that appears in the Chrome toolbar when a video is playing.
- Live Caption is a new feature in Chrome that automatically generates captions from the audio playing in a video.
If you need help understanding the audio portion of videos that play in your browser — or you simply want to play video with the audio muted — then you may appreciate Google Chrome’s Live Caption feature.
Live Caption automatically transcribes audio playing in a video and displays it as subtitles in a window that pops up in your browser. This feature is optional, however, and it’s easy to turn on or off from Chrome’s Settings page with just a click.
How to stop Live Caption in Chrome
You can stop the Live Caption feature from the Settings page whether or not a video is playing in Chrome.
1. In the Google Chrome browser, click the three-dot menu at the top right. In the pop-up menu, choose Settings.
Go to Settings from Chrome’s drop-down menu.
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2. On the Settings page, click Advanced in the navigation bar on the left.
3. Under Advanced, click Accessibility.
4. On the Accessibility page, turn off Live Caption by sliding the button to the left.
You can turn Live Cation on or off from the Accessibility page in Chrome settings.
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Quick tip: If a video is playing in Chrome, you can turn off Live Caption without opening Settings. Click the Media icon in the toolbar, which looks like three horizontal lines and a music note, and then turn off Live Caption by sliding the button to the left.
You can turn Live Caption on or off from the Media button that appears when Chrome plays a video.
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