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Live captioning

Live captions on every phone, in every language, as the speaker talks.

Guests scan a QR code and read every word in the speaker's language, or in theirs from 100+. Big text they can resize, on the phone they brought. No app, no caption screen to rent.

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  • Included in every plan
  • 100+ languages
  • Transcript afterwards
A speaker on stage beside a large screen, in front of a full hall

Keynote, in English

“This afternoon there are three breakout rooms.”

The short answer

What is live captioning?

Live captioning turns speech into text while the speaker is still talking. The words appear on a screen, or on people's own phones, a moment after they are said.

It helps deaf and hard-of-hearing guests, people at the back of a loud room, and anyone listening in a second language.

  • Captions

    The speaker's own words, as text, in the speaker's language.

  • Translated captions

    The same words in each guest's language. Often called live subtitles.

  • Transcript

    Everything that was said, to read or download once the session ends.

InterScribe does all three for one session, from one QR code.

Picture this

Two people, one talk, and neither of them misses a word.

For example

  1. Thursday, 9:05

    The opening keynote

    Two guests, one room, one QR code on the holding slide.

  2. Row three

    Ruth

    Her hearing aids pick up the room's echo more than the speaker. Most years she catches half and reads the slides. This year she scans the code on her badge, picks English and makes the text bigger. She laughs at the joke at the same moment as everyone else.

  3. Two rows behind

    Daniel

    He moved from Brazil last month. His English is fine for coffee, not for a forty-minute talk. Same code, Português. He reads along and writes down the one idea he came for.

  • Text size, their choice
  • Their language, from 100+
  • Same QR code for both

How live captioning works

From the sound desk to every phone, while they speak.

One cable in, one QR code out. Guests do nothing but scan.

  1. Sound in

    The desk's mix, or any microphone, goes into a laptop running InterScribe in the browser.

  2. Words appear

    Speech recognition writes what is said in the speaker's language, spelling names from your glossary.

  3. Translated

    Each line is translated into every language a guest has picked. Only the ones in use.

  4. On every phone

    Guests scan the room's QR code and read in the browser. Online guests open the same link.

What matters most: clean sound from the desk and a steady upload connection where the laptop sits. Ask us about your room

Hands holding up a phone at a glowing event

Live captions

Big text they can resize, on the phone they brought.

The QR code

Share your portal or the room link, not a single event.

Open Share and choose Your portal. It shows what is live today and everything coming up, so the QR you print once keeps working when the next session changes. A room link that opens whatever is live or next in that room is on its way. The panel also has the link, a short event code for people who would rather type, and posters and slides ready to print.

  • On the holding slide before the talk
  • On badges, programmes and the bulletin
  • On a poster by the door
The real Share panel of a session: This event or Your portal, QR code, link, event code
  1. Choose Your portal, not This event
  2. Copy the link or download the QR
  3. A short code for people who type
The real Share panel, from the InterScribe app.

Captions or CART?

A person typing, or speech recognition on every phone.

CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is a trained captioner writing the speaker live. It is the right call when you need a person, word for word, in one language. Here is where the two differ.

Who writes themCART captioner: A booked human captionerInterScribe live captions: Speech recognition, with your glossary of names and terms
LanguagesCART captioner: Usually the speaker's languageInterScribe live captions: The speaker's language, translated into 100+
Where guests readCART captioner: A shared screen or a streamed text linkInterScribe live captions: Their own phone, from a QR code. No app
BookingCART captioner: Arranged ahead, per sessionInterScribe live captions: Set up a session yourself, any day
AfterwardsCART captioner: A transcript from the captionerInterScribe live captions: A transcript in every language, and an SRT file
Need both? Keep a CART captioner for the main language and let InterScribe cover everyone else, in the same room.Talk to a person

After the session

The captions become a transcript in every language.

When the session ends, each language guests used is waiting: read it, download it, or take the SRT file for your recording. An AI summary is ready too, for the people who missed it.

The real Transcriptions tab of an ended session: English, French and Spanish transcripts, each ready to read or download
  1. One transcript per language
  2. Download, SRT included
  3. Highlights and AI summaries
The real Transcriptions tab of an ended session.

Who uses live captioning

Rooms where people gather to listen.

Questions people ask us

Something else? Ask us about your room and your speakers.

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How accurate are live captions?

It depends most on the sound. A clean feed from the sound desk gives the best captions; echo, music under speech and distant microphones make them worse. Add names, places and terms to a glossary so they are spelled your way, and test with your real speaker before the day.

Can guests make the text bigger?

Yes. The guest page has a text-size control, so each person sets the size that suits them without changing anything for anyone else.

Can it caption a panel or Q&A?

Yes, as long as the sound reaches the laptop. Several people can speak in one session. Give the audience microphone the same care as the stage microphones, since a question nobody can hear cannot be captioned.

What is the difference between captions and subtitles?

Captions are the speaker's words as text in the speaker's language, and they include sounds that matter. Subtitles usually mean a translation. InterScribe shows both: the original and, under it, each guest's language.

Does live captioning make us ADA compliant?

No tool makes an organisation compliant by itself. InterScribe helps you provide captions and language access; what your organisation must provide depends on the law that applies to it and on the people who attend, so check with whoever advises you on it.

Can it caption a recorded video?

Not yet: recorded events and videos are coming later in 2026. You will upload a recorded video (MP4 or MOV), bring one in from your own YouTube channel or reuse a past live session, then caption it, translate it and dub it with AI voices in your languages, and publish it to your portal or YouTube. Today InterScribe captions live speech: events, services, lectures and meetings, in the room and online, and afterwards you get the transcript in each language and an SRT file for your own recording.

All questions in the docs FAQ →

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