With a single tap, Live Caption automatically captions speech on your device. You can use it on media, like videos, podcasts, phone calls, video calls and audio messages.
Important:
- Some of these steps work only on Android 10 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.
- Some of these steps require you to touch the screen.
- Call captioning only works on Pixel phones.
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Type responses during a phone call
Turn on Live Caption
Live Caption works on:
- Pixel 2 and Pixel 3 series in English.
- Pixel 4 and Pixel 5 series and selected Android phones in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hindi and Spanish.
- Pixel 6+ and selected Android phones in Android U+ support English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Hindi, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Polish, Portuguese, Korean, Russian and Vietnamese.
To turn Live Caption on or off:
- Press the volume button.
- Under the volume controls, tap More
Live Caption
Live Caption 
Tips:
- If these steps don't work, try to turn on Live Caption first on your device’s accessibility settings.
- When 'Live Caption' is on, captions appear for speech in audio playing on your device.
All captions are processed locally, never stored and never leave your device.
Tip: If you don’t find 'Live Caption', you might need to update your Android System Intelligence. Android System Intelligence was previously called 'Device Personalisation Services'. If you find the previous name in the Play Store, you can still update the app.
Adjust the caption box
- To move the caption box: Touch and hold, then drag up or down.
- To hide captions and turn off Live Caption: Drag the caption box off the bottom of your screen.
- To expand the caption box: Double-tap to change from two lines up to 12 lines.
- To resize the caption box: Drag the bar at the bottom of the caption box.
Change Live Caption settings
- On your device, open Settings
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- Tap Accessibility
- Under Settings, you can find or change these settings:
- Hide or show profanity.
- Hide or show sound labels, such as laughter and applause.
- Hide or show the Live Caption icon in volume control.
- Turn call captioning on or off. This setting is for Pixel phones only.
.Tip: To change the caption size, style and colour, go to Caption preferences.
Set up Live Caption for phone calls
You can get captions with calls on Pixel and selected Android phones.
To talk with someone on the phone, type responses in real time. The system reads your messages aloud. This feature doesn’t translate and only allows you to converse in your current language.
Tips:
- During calls, to type on the Live Caption dialogue box, tap Keyboard
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- If there’s no keyboard icon, check if 'Type responses during calls' is turned on from the settings. To check, tap Settings
Type responses during a phone call
Important: Available on Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro above.
Use this feature to make calls without speech. You get captions of what the other person says and you can type in responses in real time. Your messages are read aloud by the system. This feature doesn’t translate and only allows you to converse in your current language.
- On your phone, open Settings
- Tap Accessibility
- Turn on Type responses during calls.
During calls, a notification informs you that call captions is on. To start typing, tap Keyboard 
Battery use and other notes
When you’re on calls or when you play media, Live Caption uses more battery. Live Caption turns off automatically in Battery Saver mode.
Other notes about Live Caption:
- Live Caption isn't intended for calls with more than one other person.
- During calls, if you mute your side during the captions disclosure announcement, the announcement is muted. Make sure that the other person knows that captions are on.
- Captions might be unavailable for some media and calling apps.
- Live Caption works best on audio with clear speech and low background noise.
- Live Caption doesn't work on music.
- Live Caption doesn't use mobile data or an Internet connection. All audio and captions are processed on the device and are never stored or sent to Google.
Get more help
For more help with Live Caption, contact the Google Disability Support team.