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.
Availability for Google Workspace Editions
Translated captions are currently only available for the following Workspace editions- Business Standard
- Business Plus
- Enterprise Starter (available until June 30, 2025)
- Enterprise Standard
- Enterprise Plus
- Google AI Pro for Education
Important: Translated captions are gradually rolling out in the following languages and may not be available yet. Some languages are in beta so translation quality may vary.
- 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.
- Join a meeting.
- At the bottom, hover over Captions and translation
Turn on captions.
- In the drop-down menu on the left, select Translated captions.
- Tip: When Speech Translation is on, captions will adjust automatically to the meeting. Learn more about Speech Translation.
- To change the captions language, select the drop-down menu on the left.
- In the drop-down menu on the left, select Translated captions.
- Or at the bottom, click More options
.
- Under "Captions," enable Turn on to see captions as people speak.
- Under "Language," select Translated captions.
- Select the "Translate from" and "Translate to" languages.
Tips: 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 options
- Under "Captions," enable or disable Turn on to see captions as people speak.
- Select the type of captions you want:
- Live captions: Learn how to use live captions in Google Meet.
- Translated captions: Select the "Translate from" and "Translate to" languages.
- Under "Customize your captions," choose your preferred settings:
- Font
- Font size
- Font color
- Background color
- Click Reset.
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.
