This post shows students and new users steps to enable or disable live captions in Windows 11. Live captioning is a new feature released with Windows 11 build 22557, that will help everyone, including people who are deaf or hard of hearing, better understand audio by viewing captions of spoken content.
When live captions are enabled, they will automatically generate and display on the device any content with audio. Captions can be displayed at the top or bottom of the screen, or in a floating window, and can be resized accordingly.
Live captions can be turned on with the WINDOWS + CTRL + L keyboard shortcut, or from the Accessibility flyout under Quick Settings.
When turned on the first time, live captions will prompt for download of the required speech model to enable on-device captioning. At the moment, Live captions are only available in US English language.
Here’s a post that shows you how to change your display language in Windows 11.
Below is how to turn on or off live captions in Windows 11.
How to enable or disable live captions in Windows 11
As mentioned above, live captioning is a new feature that will help everyone, including people who are deaf or hard of hearing, better understand audio by viewing captions of spoken content.
As of now, Live captions are only available on Windows 11 computers that are enrolled in the Microsoft Insider Preview program. If your device is not enrolled, you will not be able to use live captions at this time.
As with all releases, this feature might be available to all devices in a few months after it has been tested and promoted to the stable release branch.
There are multiple ways to turn on or off live captions. The quickest way is to use the keyboard shortcut below:
Press the WINDOWS + CTRL + L keys to toggle live captions on or off.
Alternatively, one can turn on or off live content using the steps and going to the Settings app.
Windows 11 has a centralized location for the majority of its settings. From system configurations to creating new users and updating Windows, all can be done from its Settings app.
To get to System Settings, you can use the Windows key + I shortcut or click on Start ==> Settings as shown in the image below:
Alternatively, you can use the search box on the taskbar and search for Settings. Then select to open it.
Windows Settings pane should look similar to the image below. In Windows Settings, click the Accessibility tile to expand it.
On the Accessibility settings pane, under Hearing, select the Captions tile to expand it.
On the Captions pane, select the Live captions tile, then toggle the button to the On or Off position to enable or disable.
That should do it!
Conclusion:
This post showed you how to enable or disable live captions in Windows 11. If you find any error above or have something to add, please use the comment form below.
On my windows 11 pro I do not have the option to turn off “live captions” and the key combination does not work either.
facing same problem !
have you got any solution?
Disable Chrome Live Caption
Launch Google Chrome browser.
Click on the More. for options menu.
Select the Settings menu from the list.
Scroll to the Advanced section, and click to expand.
Under the Accessibility section, and turn OFF the Live Caption toggle button.
You literally just saved me SO MUCH frustration THANK YOU.
This worked for me! Thank you!
its very annoying and i am not able to turn this off eigther
I turned it off, and it’s still off, but live captions still comes up every time a video starts playing. It’s infuriating!
Turning it off in Windows didn’t work for me and I was getting so frustrated! Turned out I needed to disable it in Chrome browser settings under Accessibility. Looks like Peggy Staley had the same solution.