While you're on an audio or video call on your Windows PC, you can miss parts of the conversation for a variety of reasons, including: your Internet connection drops out at some point, or the audio is so muffled that you can hear the entire conversation. On the other hand, if a person is hard of hearing, this can prevent them from catching all the words spoken during a call.
If for some reason you are unable to hear the entire conversation, you can use the Live Caption feature that is available on your computer with Windows 11. After activation, the computer starts typing the text of the voice conversation and displays it in this way on the screen. You can capture all the words mentioned in calls Video and voice calls.
How to use Live Translate feature in Windows 11:
1- Requirements for using the Live Caption feature in Windows 11
Live translation feature is only available in Windows 11 and Windows 10 PC users cannot take advantage of it. Also, to use it, you need Windows 11 22H2 or higher. You can check if your computer is running this version by following the steps below:
- Go to Settings (Settings).
- Click on the System option and then click on About.
- In the (Windows Specifications) section, the version number appears next to the word (version).
- If your computer's operating system has not been updated to 22H2, go to Settings, then click on Windows Update and update the operating system.
2- How to use the Live Subtitles feature in Windows 11:
Follow these steps to use live captions in an audio or video call:
1- Start or join a video or audio call.
2- Click on the button containing the battery, sound and Wi-Fi icons. This button is on the right side of the bottom bar of your computer screen.
3- A list of options will appear, select the Live Subtitles option. Or you can activate the function by pressing the (Windows, Ctrl and L) button.
4- When you enable this feature for the first time, you will be asked to agree to the processing of your voice data locally, as Microsoft is committed to preserving the privacy of your voice and not sharing it. Agree by clicking on the (I agree) button that appears at the top of the screen.
5- Once approved, a special Live Caption window will appear on your screen to display the chat text.
6- By default, only the words of other participants in the call are transcribed into the chat text window, so what you say will not appear in the call. The sentences appear in the window as two consecutive lines, then two more lines, and so on.
7- If you want to see more than two lines of chat text, drag the top or bottom window to enlarge it. You can also drag and drop a window around the screen to change its position, but it will still appear on top of other windows so you can open other applications and do other things on your computer while still reading text and looking at the conversation.
8- If you want to see your own words in the text during the call, in the window where the text of the conversation is displayed, click on the settings icon, then on the option (translation options) and activate (include microphone). sound) option. In the same menu, you can also enable the Filter Swords option if you don't want to see swear words in your chat texts.
9- To change the position of the window where the dialog box text is displayed, click on the Settings icon, then on the Position option and select Top or Bottom.
10- You can also customize the color, size, and background color of the chat text by changing the (heading style). To do this, follow these steps:
- On your computer, go to (Settings), then click on the (Accessibility) option, then select (Translation). Then click on the (Header Style) button.
- To start customizing how your chat text is displayed, uncheck the default option and select another option from the list of available options: white on black, lowercase or uppercase text, or yellow on blue.
- If you don't like any of the available options, click the Edit button in the Header Styles section.
- In the Text section, select the text color, size, font, effect, and opacity.
- Click on the Background tab and choose a color and transparency.
- Click the Window tab and choose a color and transparency.
- When done, enter a name in the Label your subtitle style field. An option with this name appears in the list of header style options.
