Not every resident in the chamber speaks the language of the meeting.
Language access and accessibilityLanguage access for public meetings, classes and services.
Live captions in 100+ languages on every phone in the room and online. Add an AI voice or your own interpreters, and a sign-language interpreter beside the captions. Afterwards, the transcript in every language.
- Captions in 100+ languages
- Sign language beside the captions
- A transcript in every language
Picture this
Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. The council hears the new bus route.
For example
7:00 p.m.
Mrs. Nguyen scans the code on the agenda.
The route that changes is hers. She reads the hearing in Vietnamese. Two rows back, Daniel follows the captions with the sign-language interpreter beside them on his phone.
7:20 p.m.
At home, a family opens the same link.
They could not find a babysitter. They open the link from the city's website and listen in Spanish.
7:45 p.m.
Mrs. Nguyen stands to speak.
Nobody has to find an interpreter first. The next morning the clerk publishes the transcript in each language with the minutes.
Resident, in Vietnamese
Please keep the number 12 bus on Oak Street.
The laws people ask us about
Four laws, one set of tools.
United States
ADA Title II
Who it applies to
State and local government entities and their programs, services and activities. A recent rule covers the accessibility of their websites and mobile apps; check the compliance dates that apply to your entity size with counsel.
What InterScribe provides
Live captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing residents on their own phones, a sign-language interpreter beside the captions, and transcripts to publish after the meeting.
Read moreUnited States
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act
Who it applies to
Programs and organisations that receive federal funding. It expects meaningful access for people with limited English proficiency.
What InterScribe provides
Each resident follows the meeting in their own language: captions in 100+ languages, an AI voice, or your own interpreters from the browser booth.
Read moreEuropean Union
European Accessibility Act
Who it applies to
Certain products and services sold in the EU. It applies since 28 June 2025; what it asks of you depends on your service and each country's implementation.
What InterScribe provides
Captions and translation for the live events and sessions you run for customers, in the room and online, with a transcript afterwards.
Read moreCanada · Quebec
Quebec Bill 96
Who it applies to
Businesses and public bodies serving people in Quebec. It strengthened French-language obligations; specific obligations vary by situation.
What InterScribe provides
French captions on every phone, a French interpreter or AI voice channel, and French transcripts, alongside any other language your audience needs.
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What you can show
When someone asks how you provide access, point here.
How people got in, and what was said in each language. These are the real pages your staff use.
How people got in
Your portal's QR code and link, printed once on the agenda, the website and the posters: it always shows the next meeting. No app, no receivers. A code for people who type.
- The QR to print once, from Your portal
- A code for people who type
What was said, in each language
Ready after the session to read or download, SRT included, to publish with the minutes.
- A transcript per language
- Viewers per language
- Sign language beside captions. On plans that include sign language, a session can offer a sign-language video channel next to the captions.
- A language list per room. Which languages are interpreted, voiced or captioned.
Who uses it
Where language access comes up.
Government and town halls
Council meetings and public hearings
Residents scan the code on the agenda and follow in their language, in the chamber or online.
Business and town halls
Education
Lectures, classes and orientation
Captions for students who are deaf or hard of hearing, and for those still learning the language of the course.
Education
Churches
Services for every visitor
Your volunteer interpreters from the booth, an AI voice, or captions for everyone else.
Churches
Questions about language access
Talk to a personDoes using InterScribe make us compliant?
No tool does that on its own. InterScribe gives you captions, translation and interpretation to provide access. Your counsel decides what your organisation has to provide and whether this meets it.
What is language access?
Making sure people who do not speak the language of a meeting, a class or a service can still follow it and take part: in their own language, or with captions for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Can we use it for council meetings and public hearings?
Yes. Print your portal's QR code on the agenda, and residents follow on their own phones in the chamber or from home. Your own interpreters can work from the browser booth.
What records do we get after a session?
A transcript in each language that was used, ready to read or download, SRT included, and the viewer count per language. You decide whether to publish them with the minutes.
Can we put French first and still offer other languages?
French is one of the languages every listener can pick, alongside the others you offer, with French captions, a French interpreter or AI voice channel, and French transcripts. Whether French must come first in your materials is for your counsel.
Can a sign-language interpreter appear on the phone?
On plans that include sign language, yes: a session can offer a sign-language video channel, shown beside the captions on the listener's phone.
Every resident, in their own language.
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