# What's New in Live Captions and Translation (October 2026)

> This roundup does not add a new Live Captions control for October 2026. For speech on an iPhone or a Mac, follow the iPhone and Mac Live Captions guides.

- URL: https://freelivecaption.com/en/posts/live-captions-translation-whats-new-oct-2026
- Published: 2026-11-08
- Updated: 2026-11-08
- Author: Daniel Alvarez (https://freelivecaption.com/en/about)
- Topic: Meetings (https://freelivecaption.com/en/topics/meetings)

## Summary

- This roundup does not change how you turn on Live Captions for October 2026.
- For an iPhone or a Mac, use the Live Captions guides linked in this article.

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## October's captions

Turning on Live Captions is unchanged in this October 2026 roundup, and no extra switch is described. If the control is already on, leave it.

## Live Captions guides

On an iPhone, start with [iPhone Live Captions](/en/posts/apple-live-captions-iphone-fix). On a Mac, start with [Mac Live Captions](/en/posts/apple-live-captions-mac-fix).

For languages, open [iPhone Live Translation languages](/en/posts/iphone-live-translation-languages). Mac apps are in [live caption apps for Mac](/en/posts/live-caption-apps-mac). MacWhisper has its own write-up at [MacWhisper](/en/posts/macwhisper-guide). The Nemotron model is in [Nemotron transcribe](/en/posts/nemotron-3-5-transcribe).

## Sources and checks