Live Captions

The main value of live captions is not that a transcript exists later. The main value is that you can keep up while the conversation is still happening.

What live captions are for

• Catching key lines in fast meetings
• Following a speaker while you are also taking notes
• Monitoring app or system audio without replaying it repeatedly

Good operating rule

Treat live captions as a reading layer for the current moment.

If you only look at the output after the session, you are using the product like a recorder with extra steps.

What to check during a session

• Is the text readable enough to follow the conversation?
• Are the right sources feeding the caption stream?
• Is the current session accumulating enough output to become useful later?

After the session

A good live caption session should leave behind material you can still:

• review,
• revise,
• export,
• and search by time later.