Google Chrome Lets You Enable Live Captions via Global Media Controls Hub

Google Chrome gained the 'Global Media Controls' characteristic that lets you lot easily control playback from any tab, without having to switch back to the source. Chrome has also added support for Live Captions, an accessibility characteristic that lets you add captions to any video on the Internet.

Currently, if you want to enable Alive Captions, you will first need to toggle a Chrome flag and so head to accessibility settings to turn it on. This is a hassle if you want to turn it off in the heart of watching a video or i that already has subtitles. Google Chrome is looking to make information technology simpler to enable Live Captions. It has baked a toggle to enable this feature into the Global Media Controls hub, which is really handy.

So, if you want to add Live Captions to videos in your Chrome browser, closely follow the steps below:

Add Live Captions to Videos in Google Chrome

Annotation : I'm using Google Chrome dev build to demo this feature, so the Global Media Controls are already enabled for me. You lot will first demand to enable its flag before you move on to the Alive Captions i.

1. Open Chrome and head to 'chrome://flags' in a new tab.

two. Search for 'Global Media Controls' and enable the '#global-media-controls-modern-ui' flag from the dropdown carte du jour.

iii. Next, search for 'Live Captions' and enable the '#enable-accessibility-live-captions' flag from the dropdown menu.

iv. Restart your Chrome browser to utilize the changes.

5. Navigate to YouTube or any other video streaming service. Play a video and see the 'Global Media Controls' icon pop-up next to the address bar. Click on this icon to find the new 'Live Caption (English Merely)' toggle.

6. If you want to see this feature in action, only toggle Live Explanation, and voila, yous are washed.

While the feature flags can be enabled in whatever version of Google Chrome, it seems like Live Captions work merely in the Canary build at the moment. And then yeah, if you're eager to try out the characteristic working, download the aforesaid build from this link and follow the steps above to get it working. It is a nifty characteristic that'south been ported from Android over to Chrome to assist disabled Internet users.