Google Meet expands language support for closed captions and translated subtitles

What’s changing

To make Google Meet more inclusive, we’ve expanded support for closed captioning to Includes the following languages:

• French Canadian (web only, mobile support coming soon)
• Indonesian 
• Polish 
• Romanian 
• Thai 
• Turkish 
• Vietnamese 

Google has also added additional languages for translation notifications. You can now translate meetings spoken in English into: Dutch, Indonesian, Turkish and Vietnamese

Note: newly supported languages will be indicated by a “beta” tag as Google continues to optimize performance.

Additional details

Google has also removed the “beta” tag from the following closed caption languages, as they have been validated and are no longer in beta:

• Dutch 
• Italian
• Japanese 
• Korean 
• Portuguese 
• Russian 

Getting started

• Admin: There is no admin control over these features.
• End users: These features are available by default. Visit the Help Center to learn more about subtitles and translation notifications in Google Meet.
• Meeting participants: 
  • You can use live translated captions if the meeting is organized by a user with an eligible Google Workspace edition.
  • Closed captioning is available to all users.

Rollout pace

• Already available

Availability

Translated captions

• Available for meetings for Google Workspace Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Starter, Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Education Plus and Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Closed captions 

• Available to all Google Workspace customers Available to users with personal Google accounts