Live Caption
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Beta for Mac

Hear English, read Vietnamese. And vice versa.

Watching a talk, a meeting or a video in English? Live Caption shows Vietnamese subtitles right on your screen, keeping up with the speaker. When someone speaks Vietnamese, the subtitles come out in English.

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Made for
  • Talks
  • Online meetings
  • Webinars
  • Lectures
  • YouTube
  • Podcasts

Features

Subtitles that keep up as people talk

Words show up as soon as they’re spoken. Translations read as a whole, not chopped up line by line. The subtitle box stays in one place and never covers what you’re doing.

Mic or computer audio

Listen through the mic, to whatever is playing on your Mac, or both at once. Nothing extra to install.

Translates the whole flow

The app follows what’s being said instead of translating each sentence on its own, so names, terms and forms of address stay consistent. Show the translation, the original, or both.

Always on top

Subtitles float over every window, even slides or a video in full screen. The background is see-through, and clicks go right through it.

Gets the jargon right

Before you start, tell the app the topic or give it the slides and documents. It prepares a list of terms and names so it hears and translates them correctly.

AI online or right on your Mac

Want speed? Use an online AI service. Want privacy? Run the models on your Mac, with nothing sent out. Your choice.

Save and summarize

When you’re done, the app asks whether to save everything that was said, and whether you’d like a summary of the main points.

How it works

Subtitles in three steps

  1. 1

    Install

    Download the file, open it and drag Live Caption into Applications. The app has been checked by Apple.

  2. 2

    Pick the audio

    Mic, computer audio, or both. Tell the app which language the speaker uses, and whether you want a translation.

  3. 3

    Start

    Subtitles appear on screen. Drag them anywhere, change the text size, or hide them with a shortcut whenever you like.

Privacy

You decide where your data goes

Run everything on your Mac and neither audio nor text leaves it. Use an online service and the app only sends to the provider you picked.

  • No recordings

    The app listens to show subtitles, nothing more. It never saves audio files.

  • Your AI keys stay safe

    Your AI service’s API key lives in Keychain, where macOS keeps passwords, not in a settings file.

  • Documents only go out when you say so

    When you give the app slides or documents, it reads the text on your Mac and shows it to you first. Only after you agree does it send that text to the AI service to build the term list.

Releases

Release history

Once a day, the app checks for a new version. If there is one, an update item shows up in the menu bar. No window pops up to interrupt you.

    Download and try it

    Installs in under a minute. Requires macOS 14.4 or later.

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