Solved Live Captions - turned off, but still appears on screen


Mark K

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For the past few weeks I keep having Live Captions taking over the screen and I do not have Live Captions enabled (they are disabled). This is very annoying and need to find out how to disable this feature that is already disabled in Windows 11 Settings.

How can I turn off this annoying feature as it is making it hard to watch videos. Soon as I close the smaller captions window, it opens right up again. I cannot close the large white background captions screen. Some times there are two or three dark background caption screens. I do not have this feature enabled and do not need it enabled.

Thanks.

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Windows 11 Pro 26200.8457

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System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell 16 Plus DB16255
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 w/ Radeon 860M 50 TOPS
    Motherboard
    Dell 0PKMHG
    Memory
    32GB LPDDR5X 7500 MT/s
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon 860M integrated (shared memory)
    Sound Card
    Stereo speakers (2.5 W x 2 = 5 W total peak)/Realtek SounzReal/Dolby Atmos
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Displays: 16" 1920 x 1200 (Full HD+/WUXGA) 300 nits 60Hz *** Samsung - 27” Odyssey FHD IPS 240Hz G-Sync Gaming Monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080 @ 60Hz
    Hard Drives
    EG6 KIOXIA 1TB NVME
    Case
    Ice Blue
    Cooling
    "dual-fan" or "enhanced" air-cooling system
    Mouse
    Logitech M650 Wireless/Bluetooth
    Internet Speed
    800/600 Fiber
After search and searching for a solution, as soon as I posted this problem, I think I found the setting.

In Google Chrome 149.0.7827.22 Settigs > Accessibility I disabled the Live Caption setting. This setting was not there before and Google Chrome just updated today.
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    Dell 16 Plus DB16255
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 w/ Radeon 860M 50 TOPS
    Motherboard
    Dell 0PKMHG
    Memory
    32GB LPDDR5X 7500 MT/s
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD Radeon 860M integrated (shared memory)
    Sound Card
    Stereo speakers (2.5 W x 2 = 5 W total peak)/Realtek SounzReal/Dolby Atmos
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Displays: 16" 1920 x 1200 (Full HD+/WUXGA) 300 nits 60Hz *** Samsung - 27” Odyssey FHD IPS 240Hz G-Sync Gaming Monitor
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080 @ 60Hz
    Hard Drives
    EG6 KIOXIA 1TB NVME
    Case
    Ice Blue
    Cooling
    "dual-fan" or "enhanced" air-cooling system
    Mouse
    Logitech M650 Wireless/Bluetooth
    Internet Speed
    800/600 Fiber
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