# Using closed captions
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When you attend a meeting hosted by someone from Amazon, you can view machine-generated closed captions. You can start and stop the captions at any time during the meeting. You can also adjust the settings for closed captions, such as language and font size. The following sets of steps explain how. 

**To show or hide closed captions**

1. On the left control bar, choose **Closed captions** (![\[An icon of a box surrounding the letters CC.\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/chime/latest/ug/images/left-control-4.png)). 

1. In the **Language Preference** dialog box, open the **Language** list and choose your language.

1. Choose **OK**.

The captions appear at the bottom of the meeting window.

**To adjust the caption settings**

1. Repeat step 1 in the previous set of steps.

1. In the upper-right corner of closed-caption box, choose **Caption settings** (the gear icon).

   The following list describes the settings.  
Use machine generated caption for all my meetings  
When selected, closed captions automatically start for all meetings hosted by someone at Amazon. You can turn the captions off at any time during a meeting.  
Language for my meetings  
Open the list and select a default language. That language will apply to all closed captions until you change it.  
Caption type size  
Select a comfortable font size from the list.   
Caption type color  
Select a color from the list.

1. When finished, choose **OK**.