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Live captions software that lives in the room, not on your laptop

If you want something that captions whatever is playing on your own machine, or somebody else's meeting, this is not it — Windows, macOS and Chrome already do that job and do it for free. This captions a talk that you are presenting, for everyone watching it. One button in the presenter console turns subtitles on for every person in the room, however they joined, and the session keeps a searchable transcript. There is no plugin to install, nothing for the audience to switch on at their end, and no third party sitting in the call typing.

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One button, and everyone in the room has subtitles

Captions are a presenter-side switch, not a per-attendee preference. You turn them on in the console and they appear for the whole audience at once, in the browser they already joined in — there is nothing for an individual attendee to enable at their end.

What is being captioned is your microphone feed while you present, shown alongside the deck rather than over it. Be clear-eyed that this is machine transcription: it is fast and good on clear speech, and it will mangle an unusual product name or an acronym, so read your own transcript through once before you rely on it in a formal setting. You pick the language you are presenting in and the recogniser listens for that one — 31 of them, Traditional Chinese included. Attendees are not stuck with it either: each picks the language they want to READ, and the translation is done on the presenter machine and streamed down already finished, which is what lets a phone read a translation at all. Two limits worth stating plainly — six reading languages at once, and real translation needs YOU on Chrome 138+ or Edge 148 on a desktop, otherwise each viewer falls back to its own browser.

What real time captioning is, and what it is not here

“Real time captioning” names three different products, and it is worth separating them so you land on the right one. The first is an operating-system utility that captions any audio playing on your own device — Windows Live Captions, or the equivalent on macOS. The second is a human stenographer or CART professional, hired by the hour to type your event. The third is this: captioning built into a live talk that you personally host, tied to the session and to the deck you are presenting.

If your problem is captioning whatever is on your screen, the OS utility already on your machine solves it, for free. If your problem is a legally required, certified transcript of a major event, a booked CART professional solves it. This solves the one in the middle — subtitles for the audience of a talk you are running — and if you needed one of the other two, it is better to go there now.

The searchable transcript the session keeps

The session keeps a transcript you can search, and that is the line between captions as an accessibility gesture and captions as a working record. Finding the two minutes where you answered a specific objection, after the talk, is a real and ordinary use of it.

Be precise about who has it: the transcript is yours, on the presenter side, and attendees are not given a copy. And here is the boundary, stated plainly — the transcript stays inside the product. There is no download, no file, no CSV and no link out of it, because nothing here can be exported at all, and there is no recording or replay of the session either. If your workflow requires an archived caption file to retain for compliance, this does not produce one, and that is a fair reason to leave now.

Captions as an accessibility line item

If you are the one answering the procurement question, here is the shape of an honest answer, rather than a claim to paste in.

What you can put in the form:

What you cannot claim:

Put the second list in as plainly as the first; it is what keeps the first one credible.

Free, because every account has the same capability

Captions are not a premium tier here, and they are not metered by the minute. Free and paid accounts have identical capability today, so the cost of captioning a talk is zero. That is a real contrast with the category norm, where live captioning is billed by the hour or reserved for a business plan.

The caveat we always add: that is the product as it stands, not a permanent pricing promise. We are not going to invent a tier list to look bigger than we are, and we are not going to pretend today’s pricing is a contract for tomorrow’s.

Where this is the wrong tool

Written to be skimmed first, even though it sits last. This cannot caption a meeting you did not host, a Zoom or Teams call, a video file, a stream in OBS, or audio coming from another application. It exists only inside a live session you are running, on a deck you built here.

There is no separate captions app, no browser extension, no hardware, no per-language selection for attendees and no caption file at the end. If your job is any of those, the honest alternative is the one already on your machine: Windows 11 Live Captions, macOS Live Captions or Chrome’s built-in captions will caption anything on your screen, for free — and for a certified transcript, a booked CART professional is the right call.

Questions, answered honestly

What is real time captioning?

Turning speech into text as it is being spoken, so the words appear within a second or two rather than after the event. It is done two ways: by a trained human captioner typing on a stenotype, and by automatic speech recognition. This is the second kind, running inside a talk you host, for the whole audience at once.

How do I turn live captions on?

One button in the presenter console, during the talk. There is no setup beforehand, no per-attendee toggle to explain, and nothing for the audience to enable — they see subtitles appear next to the deck they are already watching. You can leave them on for the entire session.

Can it caption a Zoom or Teams meeting, or anything else on my screen?

No. It only captions a live talk that you are presenting here, on a deck built here. There is no desktop application, no browser extension and no screen capture, so audio from another application or another company's meeting is completely outside it. For that job, Windows 11 Live Captions, macOS Live Captions or Chrome's built-in captions are free and already on your machine.

Do I still need to hire a captioner?

If a regulation, a contract or a specific attendee's requirement calls for a certified human captioner, then yes — automatic transcription is not equivalent and we will not tell you otherwise. For the ordinary case of making a talk followable by people who are hard of hearing, working in a second language, or watching with the sound off, one-click automatic captions cover it and cost nothing.

Can I save or download the transcript?

You can search it inside the session, on your side. You cannot download it, and you cannot send it anywhere — there is no file, no link and no export anywhere in this product, which applies to the transcript exactly as it applies to the deck, and there is no recording of the session either. If an archived caption file is a hard requirement for you, that is a genuine reason to choose a different tool.

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Host a talk in your browser and switch captions on for the whole room in one click.