This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off the profanity filter in Live Captions for your account in Windows 11.
Live captions helps everyone, including people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, better understand audio by providing automatic transcription.
You can turn on the Filter profanity option to mask profanity in live captions.
Reference:
Use live captions to better understand audio - Microsoft Support
Learn how to use live captions

Contents
- Option One: Turn On and Off Live Captions Profanity Filter from Live Captions bar
- Option Two: Turn On and Off Live Captions Profanity Filter using REG file
1 While you have Live Captions turned on, click/tap on the Settings (gear) button on the live captions bar. (see screenshots below)
2 Click/tap on Preferences.
3 Click/tap on Filter profanity to check (on) or uncheck (off - default) it for what you want.
1 Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you want.
2 Turn On Live Captions Profanity Filter
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_ON_Live_Captions_profanity_filter.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\LiveCaptions\UI]
"ProfanityFilterOn"=dword:00000001
3 Turn Off Live Captions Profanity Filter
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 4 below.
Turn_OFF_Live_Captions_profanity_filter.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\LiveCaptions\UI]
"ProfanityFilterOn"=dword:00000000
4 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
5 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
6 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
7 If Live Captions is currently turned on, then turn off and on Live Captions to apply.
8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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