Hi, I wonder if you guys will add Live Caption from Chrome latest stable build over to Brave (desktop)? Accessibility is also important for those who are deaf and hard of hearing. [image] How to Get Live Captions For Any Video or Audio in Chrome Many people rely on captions for audio or …

Thanks @juil , but is this working for you? I tried a couple of videos both on the stable and beta builds, but I don’t see the captions. :thinking:

Not working here either in Brave on YT. I doubt it will work in a YT live stream either.

it’s crazy that this is not enabled yet in brave

I am here to raise the voice for deaf people like myself. Pls add the live caption feature for people like us with hearing problems. It’s also useful for people who are learning a new language also!

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I wish to request live captions as well. I am deaf and rely on live captioning for videos that do not have native captions.

I hope this feature is implemented soon. It’s going to be useful to a lot of people.

Typing this in October 2025. Its outrageous how such a simple feature that has been in basic Chrome for OVER 4 YEARS (since March 2021) is STILL is missing from Brave. I love Brave, but I am seriously considering switching back to Chrome if they refuse to enable live captions or create an equivalent…

[image] ABZK: if they refuse to enable live captions It’s actually NOT open-source (i.e. Brave would have to develop it on its own)

@Mattches Are there any plans on developing this feature?

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Brave Feature Requests

hoop11 January 18, 2026, 10:25am 34

For everyone else here I would also like to mention that Windows 11, macOS 13+ on Apple silicon, and iPhone 11 and later all support offline, on-device live captions, and also support microphone audio input for live captions

Windows 11 (guide)
macOS
iOS

Topic		Replies	Views
Live caption for videos Desktop Requests	4	7015	April 22, 2022
Live Captions with live translation Brave Feature Requests macos	2	486	October 22, 2025
Accessibility Section (and Live Caption) Brave Feature Requests	2	3250	April 22, 2022
Live Caption feature request Brave Feature Requests	5	3075	September 25, 2021
Support for Closed Captions Desktop Requests	2	1277	April 22, 2022
Chrome live caption Brave Feature Requests	0	1527	May 1, 2022
Real Time caption Brave Feature Requests feedback , browser , feature-request	2	1126	May 7, 2026
Accessibility options Brave Feature Requests	9	3912	March 7, 2024

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