How to Enable or Disable Live Captions in Windows 11
Live captions allow you to see text on your screen for any audio playing on your computer. This is a great tool for anyone who needs help understanding spoken words, especially those who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Why use this? It makes your computer more inclusive and easier to use when you cannot hear the audio clearly or prefer to read along.
What happens when done? Your computer will automatically show text boxes whenever it detects audio, such as in videos or meetings.
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.
Live captions can be turned on using the keyboard shortcut WINDOWS + CTRL + L or through the Accessibility menu in Quick Settings. The first time you use this, your computer will download a speech file. Currently, this only works for US English.
Here is a post that shows you how to change your display language in Windows 11.
How to enable or disable live captions
You must be part of the Microsoft Insider Preview program to use this feature right now. If your computer is not in that program, you will not see these options yet.
You can use the keyboard shortcut WINDOWS + CTRL + L to quickly turn the feature on or off.
Alternatively, you can change the settings in Settings app.
Windows 11 puts most controls in one place. You can manage your system from the Settings app.
To open Settings, press Windows key + I on your keyboard or click Start then Settings.
In the Settings menu, click on Accessibility on the left side.
Under the Hearing section, click on Captions.
Click on Live captions and flip the switch to On or Off.
Summary
Live captions help you read what is being said in any audio on your computer. You can turn this on easily with a keyboard shortcut or through your Windows Accessibility settings. Remember that this feature is currently only available for those in the Microsoft Insider Preview program.
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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?
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)
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.