The sudden surge in working from home has led Google to heavily invest in its video chat tools, including Google Meet (formerly Hangouts Meet). Last month it gained the ability to accept multiple join requests at once, and now Meet's live caption feature will support more languages.

Google Meet has supported automated captions for over a year now, where audio is converted to text in real-time, but only when the speaker was talking in English. "We’re expanding live captions in Google Meet to French, German, Portuguese and Spanish (Spain and Latin America) speakers," Google said in a blog post. "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."

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Google says the functionality should start appearing in Meet today, with the rollout expected to finish within the next 15 days. Live captions are available on both personal and work accounts.

Source: Google Workspace Updates