live captioning

Instant speech transcription

Live captioning is the real-time transcription of spoken words into text, displayed as someone speaks.

It serves deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers during broadcasts, conferences, and video calls.

Human stenographers or automated speech recognition software produce the captions with minimal delay: The event offered live captioning for accessibility.

Also called real-time captioning.

Opposites
timing/production method

live captioningclosed captions

On-screen transcription of audio

dubbed content

presence vs. absence of accessibility

live captioninguncaptioned

Lacking descriptive text

unsubtitled

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Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G