Using Google Hangouts? Add Live Captions

If you use Google Hangouts for marketing, or to increase communication with your website viewers, consider adding live captions to your stream. Google announced this service earlier this year at the National Association of the Deaf conference.

While in a Hangout, you have the option to provide live captions yourself or go through a professional service, StreamText. Before using either, you'll need to install the app.

An example of Google+ Hangout captions, via Google.

 Besides making a Hangout accessible for your deaf or hard of hearing audience, a captioned transcript can be very useful to refer to after the fact.

As I wrote in my other blog in June, I'd still love to see the addition of automated captions (such as those Google already uses on YouTube videos) to Google+ Hangouts, but this is definitely a step in the right direction.