Captioning software turns speech into written words that print across your phone or computer screen. This is a useful tool for people who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, or in case you missed something that was said.
If you are in charge of arranging captions for a live event, you should consider hiring an experienced professional called a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) writer. This is more accurate than automated software. For other situations, many software options are available to help!
What kinds of captioning tools are there?
For Conversations
Live captioning solutions let you see words as they are being spoken. You can caption your phone conversations with tools like Innocaption or caption your virtual meetings with software like Otter.ai.
For Recorded Videos
Closed captioning and transcription services can add words onto your video after it is recorded. They might use a computer to recognize the speech or they might hire human professional transcribers. Some services, like Verbit.ai, offer a combination of both!