Google is expanding live captions in Google Meet to French, German, Portuguese and Spanish (Spain and Latin America) speakers.
They were previously only available in English. Live captions allow deaf and hard of hearing users, users with different primary languages, and users in noisy environments to participate more fully in meetings.
During a Meet call, each video call participant will be able to select the meeting’s spoken language when enabling captions.
Captions setting will also be “sticky.” This means that if you turn them on or off during a meeting, they will be saved, along with the chosen language, for future meetings.
Non-English captions are currently available on the web to APAC and EMEA countries only, with rollout to North America and Latin America coming in early 2021. Additionally Google will expand support to iOS and Android mobile apps in early 2021.
