You can now show automated closed captions in real-time when presenting in Google Slides. This feature uses your computer’s microphone to detect your spoken presentation, and then transcribes what you say as captions on the slides you’re presenting. This should make your presentations more effective in more environments to a wider audience.
Captions created automatically from your audio
If you turn captions on, Google Slides will use the audio from your microphone to automatically create captions of what you say. These captions will display in real time at the bottom of your screen to all audience members watching the presentation. This will work for local presentations and for presentations over video conferencing software, where captions will show on the shared screen.
The feature works in U.S. English on Chrome browsers. Captions are created from the presenter’s computer and its microphone, so captions may not work consistently if there are multiple presenters using different computers. You may want to let the audience know that captions are from Google Slides, not the video conferencing software, and that only the speaker's voice is captioned.
Helps improve accessibility and in environments where it’s hard to hear
This feature can help make your presentation more effective for:
- Audience members who are deaf or hard of hearing
- Non-native speakers and/or audience members who prefer written content
- In venues with poor audio or in noisy ambient environments
To find out how to turn on and use automated captions in Slides, visit the G Suite Help Center.
