LiveCaptionsAllowed

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2025-05-09

Live captions allowed

Supported versions

On Windows since 103 or later

Description

Allow users to turn the Live captions feature on or off.

Live captions is an accessibility feature that converts speech from the audio that plays in Microsoft Edge in to text and shows this text in a separate window. The entire process happens on the device and no audio or caption text ever leaves the device.

Note: This feature is not generally available. Clients that have the ExperimentationAndConfigurationServiceControl policy set to 'FullMode' may receive the feature before broad availability. Broad availability will be announced via Microsoft Edge release notes.

If you enable or don't configure this policy, users can turn this feature on or off at edge://settings/accessibility.

If you disable this policy, users will not be able to turn this accessibility feature on. If speech recognition files have been downloaded previously, they will be deleted from the device in 30 days. We recommend avoiding this option unless it's needed in your environment.

If users choose to turn on Live captions, speech recognition files (approximately 100 megabytes) will be downloaded to the device on first run and then periodically to improve performance and accuracy. These files will be deleted after 30 days.

Supported features

Can be mandatory: Yes
Can be recommended: No
Dynamic Policy Refresh: Yes
Per Profile: Yes
Applies to a profile that is signed in with a Microsoft account: No

Data type

Boolean

Windows information and settings

Group Policy (ADMX) info

GP unique name: LiveCaptionsAllowed
GP name: Live captions allowed
GP path (Mandatory): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge
GP path (Recommended): N/A
GP ADMX file name: MSEdge.admx

Example value

Enabled

Registry settings

Path (Mandatory): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
Path (Recommended): N/A
Value name: LiveCaptionsAllowed
Value type: REG_DWORD

Example registry value

0x00000001

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