In an exciting development for accessibility, Google Chrome has added built-in support for "live-captions" - which means that the browser will automatically display closed-captions for audio when it is playing in the browser.

‍✅How to set up Google Chrome live captions on your desktop

🎧 After you have enabled "live captions", navigate to any episode in the web-player (for example,this one), and when you start to play it you should see a box with captions at the bottom, like this:

If you have any trouble getting this working, please feel free to email us at:kidslisten@pastimeapp.com

But Why

Note: Not all episodes have transcripts, but they're working hard on it! Scroll to the bottom of an episode on butwhykids.org and look for the "Read Full Transcript" link.

For example: How Do We Fall Asleep?

The Good Words Podcast

Full list of episode transcripts

The Ten News

Click on an episode to find its transcript

Timestorm

Full list of episode transcripts

What if World

Selected transcripts

At Your Level

Selected transcripts (more to come)

More coming soon!