Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Google Meet expands language support for closed captioning and translated captions

What’s changing 

To make Google Meet more inclusive, we’ve expanded support for closed captioning to include the following languages: 
  • French Canadian (web only, support for mobile coming soon) 
  • Indonesian 
  • Polish 
  • Romanian 
  • Thai 
  • Turkish 
  • Vietnamese 

We’ve also added additional languages for translated captions. You can now translate meetings spoken in English into: Dutch, Indonesian, Turkish, and Vietnamese 


Note: the newly supported languages will be denoted with a “beta” tag as we continue to optimize performance. 


Additional details 

We’ve also removed the “beta” tag from the following closed caption languages, as they have been validated and are out of beta: 
  • Dutch 
  • Italian
  • Japanese 
  • Korean 
  • Portuguese 
  • Russian 

Getting started 

  • Admins: There are no admin controls for these features. 
  • End users: These features are available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about captions and translated captions in Google Meet.
  • Meeting participants: 
    • You can use live translated captions if the meeting is organized by a user with an eligible Google Workspace edition. 
    • Closed captions are available for all users. 

Rollout pace 

  • Available now. 

Availability 

Translated captions 
  • Available for meetings organized by Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus, and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Closed captions 
  • Available to all Google Workspace customers Available to users with personal Google accounts 

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