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In-meeting captions & pop-out

Beyond the side panel, ScribX can overlay live captions directly on your meeting — like subtitles, in your language — and you can pop them out into their own window for a second screen.

Turn captions on​

From the ScribX panel, enable in-meeting captions. Each caption shows the original line and, when translation is on, your language below it. Controls on the caption overlay:

  • Languages to show — pick which languages appear.
  • Larger / smaller text — size the captions to taste.
  • Jump to live — snap back to the current moment after scrolling.
  • Summary / Live summary — peek at the running summary.
  • Pop out — open the captions in a separate window (see below).
Live captions overlaid on a Google Meet call
Live captions over the meeting — original and translation, like subtitles.
Live-captions mode (no bot)

You can also run Live captions mode, where ScribX reads the meeting platform's own captions right in the panel — instant, nothing joins the call. Turn on the platform's CC, then start. This is the lightweight Basic Transcript path; for full accuracy + translation use ScribX AI.

Pop out to a separate window​

Click Pop out (also "Open in a separate window") to detach the captions/transcript into their own window — handy for a second monitor, or to keep captions visible while you screen-share.

The transcript and checkpoints popped out into a separate window
Popped out — the transcript and checkpoints in their own window, great for a second screen.

Customize how captions look​

In the extension's settings, tune the caption appearance:

Caption appearance settings — background, opacity, text colour, size and lines
Caption appearance: background style, opacity, text colour, text size and how many lines show.
  • Enable in-meeting captions — master toggle.
  • Background — None · Hug text · Full bar.
  • Opacity — how solid the caption background is.
  • Text edge — None · Shadow · Outline, to keep text legible over any background.
  • Text colour — pick a colour for readability over your meeting.
  • Text size — e.g. 20px.
  • Lines shown — 1, 2 or 3 lines at a time.
tip

These appearance controls live both on the caption overlay and in extension settings — set them once and they carry across meetings.

Position & size the overlay​

The caption overlay floats over the meeting video, and you can put it where it won't get in the way:

  • Drag to move — grab the overlay and reposition it anywhere over the video.
  • Resize — drag the edge to make the caption box larger or smaller.
  • Dock to the bottom — snap the overlay to the bottom of the video for a classic subtitle look.

View modes​

Switch how the running text is presented:

  • Caption — the subtitle-style view, a few lines at a time.
  • Paragraph — lines flow together into readable paragraphs.
  • Raw stream — the unformatted live stream of text as it arrives.

You can also jump to live to snap back to the current moment after scrolling, and make the text larger or smaller.

Choose languages​

Pick which languages appear on the overlay and which language to translate to:

  • Languages to show — choose which spoken languages are displayed.
  • Translate to — pick the language each line is translated into, shown beneath the original.

See languages for how language choices carry through to your notes.

No-bot caption setup (Google Meet)​

The live captions mode reads Google Meet's own captions instead of joining the call, so nothing enters the meeting. Because it relies on Meet's captions, you need to set them up:

  1. Turn on Google Meet captions — the live-captions mode reads them, so they must be enabled.
  2. Pick the spoken language — the language people are talking in.
  3. Pick the read-in languages — the languages you want to see.
Changing Meet's caption language

You can change Google Meet's caption language directly from the setup notice — no need to leave the panel.

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