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. Also Read - Apple Launches Apple Pay Later Service in US; Here's All You Need To Know
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 Read - Microsoft Slips Ads Into AI-Powered Bing Chat - Watch Video
Also, this feature is available for Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Teaching & Learning Upgrade and Education Plus customers only. Also Read - WhatsApp Disappearing Messages To Get 15 New Durations - Watch Video
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.
