> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.dingtalk.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How to Use Captions?

> Turn on live captions during a DingTalk meeting for real-time speech-to-text, with multilingual translation, font size controls, and caption history.

Smart Captions is a DingTalk Meetings feature provided in cooperation with Alibaba Tongyi Tingwu. It supports **real-time transcription** and **multilingual translation** of meeting content. It currently supports two-way real-time translation for Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and 21 other languages.

## Availability

Free meetings can use captions for only 10 minutes per meeting. After purchasing a paid version, captions can be used without a time limit.

DingTalk Meetings paid plans provide unlimited-time meetings and 10+ benefits. Users can purchase or request consultation from the relevant DingTalk Meetings purchase pages.

## Use Captions on Desktop

### Turn On Captions

During a meeting, click **More** at the bottom, then click **Captions** to turn on captions.

After captions are enabled, spoken content is transcribed into text in real time.

![](https://alidocs.oss-cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com/res/eYVOL5jMGP3jRlpz/img/8fe1692f-c207-421c-a77f-02acfb305b8d.png?x-oss-process=image/crop,x_0,y_0,w_3908,h_2732/ignore-error,1)

### Use Caption Translation

In the upper-right corner of the caption block, click the translation icon, then select the language you want to view to enable caption translation. The feature supports two-way real-time translation across Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and 21 other languages.

![](https://alidocs.oss-cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com/res/eYVOL5jMGP3jRlpz/img/14d2dbc7-91fd-4f40-b87e-eabed65c42ec.png?x-oss-process=image/crop,x_0,y_0,w_1954,h_1364/ignore-error,1)

You can also choose **Show Bilingual Captions**.

![](https://alidocs.oss-cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com/res/eYVOL5jMGP3jRlpz/img/9dd48504-80d5-4fb0-9ebc-df4c7d38d0c4.png?x-oss-process=image/crop,x_0,y_0,w_1958,h_1366/ignore-error,1)

For more detailed language settings, click **More**, click **Settings**, then click **Captions** on the left.

![](https://alidocs.oss-cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com/res/eYVOL5jMGP3jRlpz/img/bb1771c9-1cc7-4b46-9f2f-897ef4cef308.png)

### Adjust Caption Font Size

After captions are enabled, hover over the caption block and click the settings icon in the upper-right corner to quickly adjust the caption font size.

You can also click **More**, click **Settings**, then click **Captions** on the left to adjust caption size.

![](https://alidocs.oss-cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com/res/eYVOL5jMGP3jRlpz/img/13a119da-b3d4-45ec-b409-f8cc8deff6b9.png)

### Configure Personal Hotwords

If your meetings often include specialized words, such as business terms or brand names, you can customize personal hotwords to improve caption recognition accuracy.

Click **More**, click **Settings**, click **Captions** on the left, enter a **Personal Hotword** on the right, then click **Add**.

> Personal hotwords support up to 50 entries and can be configured in Chinese or English.

![](https://alidocs.oss-cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com/res/eYVOL5jMGP3jRlpz/img/b259a78a-c280-4a0f-a964-31801154739d.png)

## Use Captions on Mobile

### Turn On Captions

During a meeting, tap **More** at the bottom, then tap **Captions** to turn on captions.

![](https://alidocs.oss-cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com/res/eYVOL5jMGP3jRlpz/img/120857d4-28c8-4181-b417-e76bce28bd61.png?x-oss-process=image/crop,x_0,y_230,w_7570,h_5224/ignore-error,1)

### Caption Settings: Translation and Hotwords

After captions are enabled, tap the caption block at the bottom of the screen to open caption settings. From there, you can configure caption translation, caption hotwords, and view the full caption transcript.

![](https://alidocs.oss-cn-zhangjiakou.aliyuncs.com/res/eYVOL5jMGP3jRlpz/img/30299065-97d6-40e8-a0b3-eec305c23c78.png?x-oss-process=image/crop,x_0,y_206,w_5012,h_5074/ignore-error,1)