Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with real time closed captioning or highlighting are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include an audio interceptor to intercept an audio portion of an audio/video output stream of a multi-media application; a speech recognizer coupled to the audio interceptor to, in real time, process the audio portion of the audio/video stream, recognize speech within the audio portion, and automatically generate text corresponding to recognized speech, or keywords within the recognized speech; and a controller coupled to the audio interceptor and the speech recognizer, to control operations of the audio interceptor and the speech recognizer. The automatically generated text or keywords may be outputted as closed captions or highlights to complement video content of the audio/video stream. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.