# Setting up Smart Subtitles (console)
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Follow these steps to enable Smart Subtitles in a channel using the MediaLive console.

1. On the **Create channel** page, navigate to the **Smart Subtitles** section under Elemental Inference settings.

1. Choose **Add Smart Subtitles caption selector**.

1. For **Caption selector name**, enter a name for the caption selector (for example, `SmartSubtitlesSelector1`).

1. For **Language code**, choose the language of the audio in your source media.

1. Create a captions output for the subtitles:

   1. In your output group (HLS, MediaPackage, MediaPackage V2, CMAF Ingest, or Microsoft Smooth), add a new output.

   1. Remove any video and audio encodes from this output so that it contains only captions.

   1. Add a captions description and set the destination format to **TTML** (for MediaPackage V2, CMAF Ingest, or Microsoft Smooth output groups) or **WebVTT** (for HLS or MediaPackage output groups).

   1. For **Caption selector name**, select the Smart Subtitles caption selector you created earlier.

**Note**  
Before configuring Smart Subtitles, you must create an Elemental Inference feed with a subtitling output. You can create the feed in one of the following ways:  
In the MediaLive console, choose **Create new feed** in the Elemental Inference settings section. A side panel opens where you can configure the feed name, enable subtitling, and set the language code.
In the Elemental Inference console, create a feed and add a subtitling output.
Using the AWS CLI. For instructions, see [Elemental Inference features using AWS CLI](elemental-inference-cli.md).