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Closed Captions in Google Slides
How to enable closed captions in Google Slides
How to present slides with captions
- Click the present button to start presenting your slides
- Hover near the button left corner of the screen to show the navigation bar. Click on CC to start captioning.
- As you speak into the microphone, captions appear at the bottom of the screen.
Google provides instructions on
Tips for Using Closed Captions in Google Slides
- You must be connected to a working internet connection.
- Only available in U.S. English and using Chrome on a computer.
- Reduce background noise for best results.
- Check your microphone in system preferences and that the microphone is not being used by another application.
- Captions are powered by machine learning, the speaker's accent, voice modulation and intonation may affect transcript quality.
- Captions and your microphone automatically turn off if there's no activity on your computer for 30 minutes.
- Captions are not saved, you cannot download or review captions.
- Although the accuracy and efficiency of the technology is always improving, it does not offer 100% accuracy. Therefore, it is not recommended to use this feature as a substitute for remote (live) captioning or ASL interpreting.