Use Live Captions in Online Meetings on Mac

Use Live Captions in Online Meetings on Mac

Keep fast calls readable across Zoom, Meet, Teams, and browser meetings with one Mac-level overlay.

Choose system audio, a microphone, or both. Each source can have its own recognition and translation languages.

Prepare before the call

Set the spoken language, translation language, output device, and subtitle position before people begin speaking.

Keep the overlay useful

Move captions away from shared slides and use click-through when you need to interact with content underneath.

Set the right expectations

Overlapping voices, compressed call audio, and unusual vocabulary can reduce accuracy; captions are not an official record.

Can I caption my voice and the other side of a call?

Yes. Choose microphone and system audio together for separate source labels and independent recognition and translation languages. Use headphones to reduce echo. This does not identify every remote speaker.

Is a monthly subscription required?

A one-time Pro Lifetime purchase is available alongside monthly and annual subscriptions. US reference prices are $4.99 monthly, $29.99 annually and $39.99 once. The App Store in your region shows the amount payable.

Does it automatically summarize my recordings with AI?

Alison creates editable transcripts and exports text, including Markdown. Summarization in a separate AI tool is your choice; sending text to a cloud tool changes where that text is processed.

Choose the next guide for your task

Use the related guides below to continue with the task you actually need: following live speech, translating it, preparing a file transcript, checking privacy or fixing audio permissions. Each guide explains its own setup and limits. Check your actual app, audio route and supported languages before a long session.