Use translated captions in Google Meet
You can use translated captions to translate to and from specific languages.
If you need subtitles in your meetings, learn how to use captions in Google Meet.
Important: We recently announced that Google AI features will be added directly to Google Workspace Business and Enterprise plans. As part of this announcement, customers with Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard, and Enterprise Plus editions can continue to use translated captions through their existing subscriptions.
Availability for Google Workspace Editions
- Business Standard
- Business Plus
- Enterprise Starter (available until June 30, 2025)
- Enterprise Standard
- Enterprise Plus
- Google AI Pro for Education
Important: This feature is gradually rolling out and may not be available yet.
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Bengali
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese, Mandarin (Traditional)
- Czech
- Dutch
- English
- Estonian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati (India)
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Kannada (India)
- Kazakh
- Khmer (Cambodia)
- Korean
- Lao
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Nepali
- Norwegian
- Persian (Farsi)
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Sinhala
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish (Spain)
- Sundanese
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Uzbek
- Vietnamese
- Zulu
Turn on translated captions
- On your computer, go to Google Meet.
- In your meeting, click More options 👁 More
👁 and then
Settings 👁 Settings
👁 and then
Captions 👁 Image
. - Select Language of the meeting.
- Turn on Translated captions 👁 Image
. - Select the language you prefer to translate into.
Tip: If you record a meeting, select Record captions to embed captions in the clip.
Customize captions
- On your computer, go to Google Meet.
- Join a meeting.
- At the bottom, click More 👁 More
👁 and then
Settings 👁 and then
Captions. - Under “Customize your captions,” choose your preferred settings:
- Font
- Font size
- Font color
- Background color
- Click Close 👁 Image
.
Tip: Your settings are automatically saved.
View past translated captions
If translated captions are turned on, you can review the translated captions of the previous parts of a conversation.
You can scroll up or down to review the translated captions. Translated captions only display for the parts of the conversation where you’re in the meeting and have captions turned on.