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Live caption translation everyone reads in their own language

One button subtitles your whole audience, and each person separately picks the language they want to READ. Someone in the room can follow a talk given in English while reading Spanish, and the person beside them reads Dutch, from the same words. The part that makes this work is where the translation happens: on the presenter’s machine, streamed down to everyone as text. That is why a phone can read a real translation rather than a degraded approximation: the work has already been done by the time the text arrives.

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  • Attendees install nothing
  • Runs in any browser

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  • Imports your .pptx
  • Audience joins with a code

What live caption translation does in a talk

You pick the language you are SPEAKING — there are 31, including Traditional Chinese — so the recogniser is listening for the right one rather than guessing. Every viewer then picks, on their own device, the language they want to READ. The captions appear over the live deck for everyone, and the session keeps a searchable transcript afterwards.

The practical shape of it: a talk given in one language, read in several at once, without anybody installing anything or joining a different room. Six reading languages can be active at a time in a single talk.

Why the translation runs on the presenter’s machine

This is the design decision the whole feature rests on, and it is worth understanding because it is what makes the result trustworthy.

If each viewer’s browser did its own translating, the quality would depend on the device in their hand — and on a phone that usually means a small word-substitution list that produces something shaped like a translation without being one. That failure is invisible to exactly the person it hurts: a reader who cannot follow the spoken language has no way to judge whether what they are reading is accurate. That is the entire reason they are reading it.

So the translation happens once, on the presenting machine, and the finished text is streamed down to every viewer. One machine has to be capable; nobody else’s does. That machine needs Chrome 138+ or Edge 148+ on desktop.

What is shipped, stated exactly

Captions in the language you are speaking, from a 31-language list. A per-viewer reading language, translated for them as you speak. Six reading languages at once per talk. A searchable transcript kept on the presenter’s side afterwards.

And the limits, in the same breath. The presenter needs Chrome 138+ or Edge 148+ on desktop. From Safari or Firefox the feature falls back to whatever the viewer’s own browser can manage, and on a phone that result is unreliable. The transcript stays inside the product: there is no file to download, and no recording of the session, so what you keep is text you read here.

Running a multilingual room well

The feature does the mechanical part; a few habits do the rest. Say the language you are presenting in out loud at the start, so nobody spends five minutes deciding whether the captions are broken or the accent is unfamiliar. Point the reading-language picker out explicitly — people do not go looking for a control they have no reason to expect.

Speak in shorter sentences than you would to a room sharing your first language, and pause at the end of them. Recognition and translation both work on completed thoughts, and a sentence that runs for forty seconds arrives as one long block that is harder to read than to hear. And put the words that matter on the slide as well as in your mouth: a proper noun is the thing most likely to come out wrong, and the slide text itself stays exactly as you wrote it.

Questions, answered honestly

Can my audience read captions in their own language?

Yes. You pick the language you are speaking; each viewer separately picks the language they want to read, on their own device. Six reading languages can be active at once in a single talk.

What does the presenter need?

Chrome 138+ or Edge 148+ on desktop. The translation runs on the presenting machine and is streamed down as finished text, which is what lets everyone else — including someone on a phone — read a real translation without needing anything special themselves.

What happens in Safari or Firefox?

If the PRESENTER is on Safari or Firefox, the work falls back to each viewer’s own browser, and on a phone the result is unreliable. Viewers can be on anything; it is the presenting machine that decides.

Does this meet an accessibility requirement for a multilingual audience?

It helps, and it is not a certification. Captions render live for everyone and each person can read in their own language, which covers the practical need in most rooms. If you are answering to a written standard, check the standard against what is described above rather than against the word "captions".

Can I get the transcript afterwards?

You can read it, searchably, inside the session on the presenter’s side. You cannot download it: there is no file export anywhere in this product, and there is no recording of the session either, so the transcript is the record.

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Host a talk and turn captions on — each viewer picks their own language.