First on Android

Say hello to

Expressive Captions.

Now captions come with all the feelings on everything live, from TV and social to video messages — right on your Android.

How to activate

Get closer
to the action.

Read when the EMOTION IS HIGH on live sports, news, and more with impactful capitalization — all on your phone.

There is a football player in a yellow helmet, wearing a white jersey with the number 44 on their arm, and is wearing blue football pants with the football clutched in his arm — on a mobile phone screen.Subtitles appear on the mobile screen that say “he’s in for the TOUCHDOWN.”

Live in the moment.

Feel the joy and drama behind the words as you watch a live video, truly losing yourself in the moment with emotion captured in the captions.

On a mobile phone screen is a person with dark purple hair, brown round earrings, with a mic clipped to the collar of their lavender t-shirt, and has a hand on a wooden-like rectangular item. Purple lighting and items are in the background. Sound effects captions appear over the mobile phone that say “gasp” and “laughter.”

Connect with the fam.

Video messages from friends and family come to life with environmental sounds. So you can feel it, even when you don’t hear it.

On a mobile phone screen are two people walking side-by-side on a sidewalk about to cross the street. One person is walking a dog on a leash and has a white shirt underneath a blue denim jacket, with light blue tinted glasses hung on the middle of the shirt. The other person is wearing a non-sleeve, pastel green shirt with black sunglasses hung in the middle of the shirt. That person is wearing blue jeans and white sneakers. Sound effects captions appear over the mobile phone that say “cheers and applause.”

Turn on

Expressive Captions.

Get started on Android across all of your apps and services.**

  • 1. Press the
volume button.*

    Press the up or down volume button on the side of your device.

  • 2. Tap the Live Caption icon.

    Under the volume controls, tap the Live Caption icon, then Done.

  • 3. Tap the Expressive Captions icon.

    Under Live Captions on your media, tap the Expressive Captions icon.

For more details including which devices are compatible, visit our Help Center.