Enabling or Disabling Live Captions in Windows 11

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The post provides a guide on how to enable or disable live captions in Windows 11. This feature, specific to Windows 11 build 22557, aids those with hearing impairments by displaying captions for audio content. Live captions can be activated via a keyboard shortcut or through the Accessibility flyout, currently existing only in US English…

This post shows students and new users steps to turn live captions on or off 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 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. Currently, Live captions are only available in the US English language.

Here’s a post that shows you how to change your display language 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.

Live captions are only available on Windows 11 computers enrolled in the Microsoft Insider Preview program. You cannot use live captions now if your device is not enrolled.

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. As a result, everything can be done, from system configurations to creating new users and updating Windows 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.

Select the Live Captions tile on the Captions pane, 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. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have something to add.

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9 responses to “Enabling or Disabling Live Captions in Windows 11”

  1. BigFish63 Avatar
    BigFish63

    On my windows 11 pro I do not have the option to turn off “live captions” and the key combination does not work either.

    1. abhishek navgan Avatar
      abhishek navgan

      facing same problem !
      have you got any solution?

    2. John Brazilian Avatar
      John Brazilian

      Turn Off Live Captions using Registry Editor

      1. Press the Win + R keys to open Run program.
      2. Type regedit to open Registry Editor.
      3. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Accessibility by Pasting this string in the address bar
      4. Double click in the key Configuration
      5. Remove livecaptions from the Value data
      6. Press OK
      7. Reload registry (any of: reboot, logoff then login, killing Explorer.exe process)

  2. Peggy Staley Avatar
    Peggy Staley

    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.

    1. Garb Avatar
      Garb

      You literally just saved me SO MUCH frustration THANK YOU.

    2. Adrian Avatar
      Adrian

      This worked for me! Thank you!

  3. abhishek navgan Avatar
    abhishek navgan

    its very annoying and i am not able to turn this off eigther

  4. Jacob Avatar
    Jacob

    I turned it off, and it’s still off, but live captions still comes up every time a video starts playing. It’s infuriating!

  5. Jacob Avatar
    Jacob

    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.

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