Google Meet hacks: How to turn on live translated captions in your meetings
Google Meet is an incredibly useful video conferencing platform that makes catching up with far away family members and colleagues easy. It offers a bouquet of features and functionalities that make it easier for users to understand the conversation going on in a meeting even if it isn’t happening in the language that a particular user uses predominantly. Case and point, the live translated captions feature. It lets users understand the conversation in a meeting by showing captions in the language of choice in real time.
But there is a caveat. This feature is available in select languages at the moment. Users can use translated captions to translate English to or from these languages: French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. On the other hand, users can use translated captions to translate English into these languages: Japanese (Available on Desktop and Android); Mandarin, simplified (Available on Desktop and Android); and Swedish (Available on Desktop and Android).
Also, this feature is available for Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Teaching & Learning Upgrade and Education Plus customers only.
So, if you check all these boxes and you want to turn on this feature for your meeting in Google Meet, here’s what you need to do:
How to turn on live translated captions in Google Meet on your computer
Step 1: Open Google Meet on your computer.
Step 2: In your meeting, click the More Options button.
Step 3: Now click the Settings button.
Step 4: In the settings menu, go to the Captions option.
Step 5: Now toggle the button to turn on Captions.
Step 6: Now, select the “Language of the meeting.”
Step 7: Next, toggle on the Translated Captions button.
Step 8: Select the language to translate into.
How to turn on live translated captions in Google Meet on Android
Step 1: On your Android device when you’re in a meeting, tap the screen to display call controls.
Step 2: Now, tap More Controls option and then tap the Settings option.
Step 3: Now toggle the button to turn on Live Captions functionality.
Step 4: Next, select the Language of the call Closed Caption.
Step 5: Tap Save.
Step 6: Now, tap the Translation Language option.
Step 7: Select the language to translate you want to translate the conversation into and then tap Save.
Step 8: To return to the main screen, tap the Close button.
How to turn on live translated captions in Google Meet on iOS
Step 1: On your iOS device when you’re in a meeting, tap the screen to display call controls.
Step 2: Now, tap the More controls option and then tap the Settings button.
Step 3: Next, toggle the button to turn on Live Captions.
Step 4: Select the Language of the call Closed Caption.
Step 5: To go back to the previous screen, tap the back arrow.
Step 6: Now tap the Translation Language option on your screen.
Step 7: Next, select the language you want to translate the conversation into.
Step 8: To go back to the previous screen, tap the back arrow.
Step 9: To return to the main screen, tap Close button.
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Google Meet is an incredibly useful video conferencing platform that makes catching up with far away family members and colleagues easy. It offers a bouquet of features and functionalities that make it easier for users to understand the conversation going on in a meeting even if it isn’t happening in the language that a particular user uses predominantly. Case and point, the live translated captions feature. It lets users understand the conversation in a meeting by showing captions in the language of choice in real time.
But there is a caveat. This feature is available in select languages at the moment. Users can use translated captions to translate English to or from these languages: French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. On the other hand, users can use translated captions to translate English into these languages: Japanese (Available on Desktop and Android); Mandarin, simplified (Available on Desktop and Android); and Swedish (Available on Desktop and Android).
Also, this feature is available for Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Teaching & Learning Upgrade and Education Plus customers only.
So, if you check all these boxes and you want to turn on this feature for your meeting in Google Meet, here’s what you need to do:
How to turn on live translated captions in Google Meet on your computer
Step 1: Open Google Meet on your computer.
Step 2: In your meeting, click the More Options button.
Step 3: Now click the Settings button.
Step 4: In the settings menu, go to the Captions option.
Step 5: Now toggle the button to turn on Captions.
Step 6: Now, select the “Language of the meeting.”
Step 7: Next, toggle on the Translated Captions button.
Step 8: Select the language to translate into.
How to turn on live translated captions in Google Meet on Android
Step 1: On your Android device when you’re in a meeting, tap the screen to display call controls.
Step 2: Now, tap More Controls option and then tap the Settings option.
Step 3: Now toggle the button to turn on Live Captions functionality.
Step 4: Next, select the Language of the call Closed Caption.
Step 5: Tap Save.
Step 6: Now, tap the Translation Language option.
Step 7: Select the language to translate you want to translate the conversation into and then tap Save.
Step 8: To return to the main screen, tap the Close button.
How to turn on live translated captions in Google Meet on iOS
Step 1: On your iOS device when you’re in a meeting, tap the screen to display call controls.
Step 2: Now, tap the More controls option and then tap the Settings button.
Step 3: Next, toggle the button to turn on Live Captions.
Step 4: Select the Language of the call Closed Caption.
Step 5: To go back to the previous screen, tap the back arrow.
Step 6: Now tap the Translation Language option on your screen.
Step 7: Next, select the language you want to translate the conversation into.
Step 8: To go back to the previous screen, tap the back arrow.
Step 9: To return to the main screen, tap Close button.
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