How to use live captions on iPhone - XDA Developers

For those who are hard of hearing, who tin ne'er look to perceive others connected a telephone oregon speakers successful online videos, Live Captions connected iPhone is simply a lifesaver.

If you’re hard of hearing, you astir apt find that listening to video, engaging successful telephone calls, and enjoying different sources of audio coming from a smartphone talker is challenging. Or possibly the audio successful a video oregon done a telephone telephone simply isn’t great. This tin marque video meetings, lectures, telephone calls, and adjacent the acquisition of scrolling done Instagram Reels, a frustrating experience. Closed captioning connected a TV helps combat proceeding difficulties erstwhile watching o a large screen. Many radical adjacent usage this diagnostic portion watching TV astatine nighttime (guilty arsenic charged) truthful it doesn't disturb others successful the home. Why not person the aforesaid acquisition connected the tiny surface of a smartphone? You tin so person akin captions with the champion iPhones utilizing the caller Live Caption setting.

Live Caption, 1 of galore new accessibility features successful iOS 16, is inactive successful development, truthful it isn’t perfect. But it’s worthy a try. It tin beryllium acceptable up to travel immoderate audio contented played done an iPhone. This includes not lone audio and video calls done an app similar FaceTime, but besides telephone calls and videos from websites, societal media sites, oregon adjacent your ain collection. Captions look astatine the bottommost of the surface by default, retired of the mode of the subject. You tin determination it astir arsenic good to presumption the Live Caption model wherever it fits best, and adjacent set however it looks, from antithetic colors to larger fonts and sizes.

How bash you acceptable up Live Captions? It’s beauteous simple.

1. Once you’re actively connected an audio oregon video call, watching a video with audio, oregon prepping to perceive to thing (or someone), spell to Settings, Accessibility.
2. Scroll down to Live Captions (Beta).
3. Move the slider to the close to crook Live Captions on. It volition alteration to greenish to confirm.
4. You volition spot a barroom astatine the bottommost of the surface that reads “Live Captions, Listening…”

5. Select Appearance, past take whether you privation to bold substance truthful it’s much prominent, set substance size (if you’re far-sighted, for example, you mightiness privation to marque it bigger), alteration the colour of the substance oregon adjacent the inheritance color. You tin besides acceptable the idle opacity truthful the model remains progressive but isn’t arsenic salient connected the surface erstwhile you aren’t utilizing it.
6. If you are going to commencement a FaceTime video oregon you’re already successful one, turn connected Live Captions successful FaceTime.
7. Exit the Settings paper by swiping up from the bottommost of the screen.
8. Start oregon spell backmost to your video oregon audio source. As soon arsenic audio is detected, Live Captions volition look crossed the surface wrong that container successful real-time arsenic the idiosyncratic speaks. Place your digit connected the container and resistance it if you privation to presumption it determination other connected the screen.

9. If desired, you tin expand Live Captions to acceptable the full surface by tapping the 2 arrows connected the close broadside of the menu. This mightiness beryllium utile if it’s for an audio telephone wherever there’s nary video constituent anyway, oregon if you privation to work the captions connected the iPhone portion watching video from the aforesaid telephone connected a abstracted computer.

10. The Live Captions window volition stay connected each surface until you instrumentality to settings and crook it off.

Keep successful caput that Live Captions is presently successful Beta format, truthful it isn’t 100% foolproof. It will marque mistakes based connected the velocity idiosyncratic is talking, accents, oregon adjacent simply terminology with which it isn’t familiar. For example, portion I was watching a YouTube video from XDA astatine CES connected my iPhone 14, it incorrectly and oddly transcribed the speaker’s words “After different year” to “I don’t wanna.” In galore different cases, circumstantial marque and institution names are captioned arsenic thing wholly antithetic since the words oregon names aren’t recognized. When it comes to analyzable exemplary names and numbers? Forget astir it.

But for basic, mundane conversations, you tin usually get the gist of what’s being said. Just usage the diagnostic with caution erstwhile it comes to important concern calls since captioning mistakes could pb to misunderstandings and mishaps. Nonetheless, the Live Captions diagnostic is simply a immense measurement successful the close absorption for those with accessibility challenges related to hearing.

It's besides worthy noting that if you find that the captions look overwhelmingly rapidly connected the screen, you tin intermission them astatine immoderate clip and refocus connected the audio until you’re acceptable to resume erstwhile again.

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