After appearing for some users earlier this month, Gemini Live now lets you enable captions on Android and iOS.
When you launch Gemini Live on Android or iOS, a rectangular captions button appears in the top-right corner. Tapping will enable a floating box that provides a transcript of Gemini’s responses. (This does not show what you’re saying in real-time, but that remains available in the full text transcript after ending the conversation.)
It appears near the middle of the fullscreen interface in audio mode, and at the top when video streaming is enabled. These three lines of text cannot be moved or resized. In Gemini > Settings, there’s a new “Caption preferences” item underneath the “Interrupt Live responses” on/off toggle that links to system settings on Android.
Once enabled, the captions setting will remain on for future Live conversations. They do not appear if you exit the full Live UI, but they will be there if you return mid-conversation.
This addition lets you say prompts and commands out loud, but read the response if you’re without headphones or in a quiet environment. Previously, you could not start a Live conversation if the volume on your device was too low. That is now possible.
Update: This is now widely rolling out to Google app stable (16.23) and beta users on Android, as well as iOS with today’s release. Force stop from App info if you’re not seeing it yet.
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