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Generate real time captions as you speak.

How to Live Caption
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Export and Share
You can share the captions and export them as a DOCX or TXT file.
Live Captioning for Free
Maestra's live captioning tool is completely free for everyone.
Instantly caption phone calls, meetings, lectures, and more.
Generate Live Captions in Real-Time
A live caption tool is a quicker and easier fix for captioning, compared to other means of captioning.
Live captioning is needed in various areas. For example, a teacher can find it beneficial to live caption their lectures in order to ensure that students understand every single word. And after the lecture, the professor can share the transcription with the students so they can study the lecture.
Live captions are faster than automatic captions because they are generated as you speak. Spoken dialogue is instantly transcribed and turned into captions. All you have to do is speak directly onto your microphone and let the live caption generator work.
Improved Accessibility Through Live Captioning
Accessibility is another great benefit of live captioning as it allows individuals who exclusively work through voice direction to generate transcripts or caption audio.
Another area of media that can benefit from live captioning is podcasts. Real-time captioning podcasts is an easy solution for generating the transcript of a podcast. Captioning podcast episodes and having the transcript at the disposal of your audience allows hearing-impaired individuals to consume the content.
Live captioning also allows sight-impaired individuals to live caption audio content. These benefits make live captioning an impressive tool for maximizing accessibility, creating an easy and quick way to live caption audio.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Live Caption?
A live caption is when speech is turned into captions in real time. Captioning in a live stream is a good example of live captioning.
Why use Live Captions?
Captions in real-time can be beneficial for multiple reasons. Live streams can be captioned through live captions, or it can be used for accessibility reasons.
What is live captions vs auto captions?
Auto captions are captions generated automatically by putting text onto a video through a subtitle generator. They aren't created in real-time as opposed to live captions. Live-captions are speech generated into text as soon as one speaks.
Secure
The process is completely automated. Your live-captions and audio files are encrypted at rest and in transit and cannot be accessed by anyone else unless you authorize. Once you delete a file, all data including audio files will be instantly deleted. Check our security page for more!