How to enable Live Caption on Android 10 (Q) smartphones? [Comprehensive Guide]

What is Live Caption?

Live Caption is one of the most important features of Android 10, which can automatically transcribe any videos into subtitles in real time with the help of AI technology. Moreover, the Live Caption subtitles are generated by Google’s on-device machine learning, so it can still work under offline environment. This is a very practical feature that can be used in many occasions, especially for deaf or hard of hearing people, and we can watch videos silently without disturbing others.

How to enable the Live Caption feature on the smartphones?

To access the Live Caption feature, you should make sure your smartphone’s operating system has been updated to the latest Android 10. Presently, the Android 10 is only available for Google Pixel phones. If your phones are running Android 10, you can continue to follow the steps below:

Step 1. Playing a video. You can play any videos you want, such as YouTube, Instagram, Podcast, or even the video recorded by yourself.

Step 2. Press a volume button (either up or down).

Step 3. When the volume slider appears on the screen, tap the caption button below it.

Step 4. The the audio in your playing video will be transcribed to the subtitles in a black box. And you can move around the caption to the any places on your phone’s screen at will or you can also tap the text box to expand it.

Note:

● The Live Caption feature can still work even your smartphone’s volume is turned down or muted.

● The Live Caption feature is also available under no internet connection.

● The transcriptions are only generated in real time and it cannot be saved.   

Which phones can use the Live Caption feature?

Generally, all the smartphones running on Android 10 operating system will access the Live Caption feature. However, as the Android 10 is just newly released, so only a small number of phones can use this feature. But one thing is sure that the Google Pixels phones will be the first batch of devices to offer this feature. But the latest news also reveals that the Live Caption isn’t live now and it will come to Pixels phones this fall. Then more devices from other smartphone manufactures will get this Live Caption feature after they push the customized Android 10 in the near future, including Redmi K20 Pro, OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro, etc.

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