Automatically generated captions for videos in Google Drive now available in more languages
WorkspaceAutomatically generated captions for videos in Google Drive now available in more languages
November 25, 2025
What’s changing
Last year, we announced the ability to automatically generate captions for English-language videos in Google Drive. Today, we’re expanding this feature to support 27 additional languages.
This update makes video content stored in Drive more accessible, inclusive, and easier to understand for all users, especially those who are deaf or hard of hearing, are in a noisy environment, or speak a different primary language. Automatically generated captions also save time by eliminating the need for manual caption creation and make it easier to search for video content.
When an eligible user uploads a video to Drive, this feature will automatically detect if the video is in one of the supported languages and generate captions for it.
The new languages supported are:
- Arabic
- Czech
- Dutch
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
- Support for Chinese is coming soon.
Getting started
- Admins: This feature expansion will be ON by default for all eligible organizations and will respect your existing settings for automatically-generated captions. No new admin control is being added. You can control this feature for your organization at the domain, OU, or group level. Admins can choose to:
- Have captions generated automatically when a user uploads a video (default)
- Turn on the feature, but require users to request captions for each video
- Disable automatically-generated captions entirely
- End users: For end users at organizations where automatic generation on upload is enabled, captions in these new languages will be generated automatically upon video upload. No action is required. End users who need to request captions (including users with personal Google accounts) can generate captions by doing the following: right-click the video > Manage caption tracks > Add new caption tracks. Visit the Help Center to learn more about automatically generated captions.
Rollout pace
- Available now
Availability
- Available to all Google Workspace customers, Google Workspace Individual subscribers, and users with personal Google accounts
