Live captions turn speech into text on your screen as it happens: a Zoom or Teams call, a webinar, a YouTube live stream, a video with no subtitles. Useful if you are hard of hearing, in a noisy place, or following a meeting in a language you know less well.
Options on Windows
- Windows Live Captions (Windows 11): built in, for system audio, limited languages and no translation in many versions.
- Meeting apps’ own captions (Teams, Zoom, Meet): only inside that app, features depend on your plan.
- A caption app for anything playing on your PC: works across apps and can translate.
SubtitleVideo Live Caption
Our Live Caption app for Windows shows real-time captions and translation for anything playing on your PC (Zoom, Teams, YouTube and more). Get it free from the Microsoft Store.
Tips for better live captions
- Set the spoken language rather than relying on detection when you know it.
- Clear audio helps: live recognition has no second pass to fix mistakes.
- Translation follows the recognized text, so a misheard word stays wrong after translation.
Need a clean transcript afterwards?
If you record the meeting, upload the recording to video transcription for a full transcript with timecodes (TXT, SRT or VTT) that you can review and share.