real-time captions

Instant spoken text

Real-time captions are text transcriptions of spoken words displayed as they're being said, with minimal delay.

Unlike pre-prepared subtitles, they're generated live—by human stenographers or speech recognition software—for broadcasts, video calls, or live events: The conference provided real-time captions for deaf attendees.

Also called live captions.

liveTo exist or dwell
live streamReal-time online broadcast
subtitlesOn-screen dialogue text
transcriptionWritten version of speech
accessibilityEase of approach

streaming · deaf · hard of hearing · sign language · speech-to-text · broadcast · synchronize · display · hearing · video · audio · interpreter · translate · instant · automatic · overlay · screen · dictation

Opposites

timing/synchrony

real-time captionsclosed captions

On-screen transcription of audio

dubbing

presence of captioning

real-time captionsuncaptioned

Lacking descriptive text

unsubtitled

modality direction

real-time captionstext-to-speech

Converting writing to audio

audio description · speech synthesis · voice narration

Family

real, time, realism, realist, realistic, realistically, reality, realities, really

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G