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Web Captioner will sunset and be open sourced on October 31, 2023.

July 26, 2023
By Curt Grimes

Web Captioner will sunset and stop operating on October 31, 2023. Until this date, you can continue to access Web Captioner at https://webcaptioner.com/captioner.

Since its start in 2017, this project has provided a great opportunity to get the conversation going about accessibility and provide some tools to make spoken content accessible.

As I promised in the past, if I were to sunset Web Captioner, I would open source it. I will make the Web Captioner source available on my GitHub profile at https://github.com/curtgrimes on October 31, 2023 after Webcaptioner.com is sunset. I will open source it under the MIT license.

Go to Web Captioner
Available until October 31, 2023

Alternatives

If you used Web Captioner to add subtitles to live streams, many popular streaming services now have built-in automatic captioning available. If you are a content creator, consider enabling these options if they are not on by default. If a service, event, or stream does not provide captions, consider asking them to add this support. In the U.S., some public entities may also have an obligation to provide captioning.

Standalone alternatives similar to Web Captioner

I did not vet these alternatives thoroughly. This is not an endorsement. Be sure to follow through with your own research!

Other standalone alternatives exist. You may want to search for alternatives using keywords like these: live captioning, live transcription, text-to-speech, closed captioning, live streaming captioning.

Other alternatives by platform or service

Why sunset Web Captioner?

Since 2017, streaming platforms have continued to bake in captioning into their products, which is awesome! And within the last months and years we've seen an explosion of AI-powered speech recognition that can run locally and produce pretty decent results.

I regretfully have not had the time to improve and mature Web Captioner in the ways I originally wanted to. A mistake I made early on was making myself too available and open for feedback and support. I reached a point where I was spending more time troubleshooting users' microphone problems instead of developing new features in Web Captioner. While that may have been a good experience for a small set of Web Captioner users, as the sole developer of Web Captioner, this meant that I was no longer putting my time towards adding new features and fully realizing the vision I had back in 2017.

Another fundamental issue with Web Captioner is that it depended on the specific implementation of the Web Speech API only available through Google Chrome to produce a great result. While support for the Web Speech API has expanded to other browsers, the result users would see in Web Captioner would only ever be as good as those implementations, which left a lot out of my control. A non-trivial amount of feature requests I received were impossible to implement due to this dependency. That is not a good situation to be in. My eventual goal was to let users select (and pay for) a speech-to-text service of their choosing, but I did not have time to make this a reality.

Thank You

Thank you for your support of Web Captioner over the years. Many donors helped support a portion of the costs of keeping Web Captioner running. If you would still like to donate, you can make a donation on PayPal.

To follow me in the open source space, check out my GitHub profile.

- Curt

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You can make it easier to follow what's being said in meetings by turning on captions, which show text of the conversation.

Note: If you record a video meeting, captions are not recorded and don't appear when you play the recording.

At the bottom of the Meet window, click Turn on captions or Turn off captions .

You might have to click More first.

Tip: If the captions are covered by your call controls, click anywhere else inside the Meet window to dismiss them.

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You can make it easier to follow what's being said in meetings by turning on captions, which show text of the conversation. Note: If you record a video meeting, captions are not recorded and don't appear when you play the recording. At the bottom of the Meet window, click Turn on captions or Turn off captions .

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Overview

Closed captioning allows you or another meeting attendee, assigned by the host, to add closed captioning in a meeting. In a webinar, closed captioning can be typed by the host, co-host, or a panelist assigned by the host. You can type the closed captions directly via Zoom or you can integrate a third party service. Learn how to view closed captions on the desktop client / mobile app and in Zoom Rooms.

You can also integrate a third-party closed captioning service using a REST API.

This article covers:

Prerequisites

Zoom Desktop Client (enter or view captions)

Windows: 3.5.37712.0111 or higher

macOS: 3.5.37712.0111 or higher

Linux: 3.5.37712.0111 or higher

Zoom Mobile App (view captions only)

Android: 4.0.21521.0116 or higher

iOS: 4.0.21521.0116 or higher

Zoom Rooms for Conference Room for Windows, 3.6 or higher (view captions only)

Zoom Rooms Controller (view captions only)

Android: 4.0.21521.0116 or higher

iOS: 4.0.21521.0116 or higher

Enabling closed caption

Account

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal

2. In the navigation panel, clickAccount ManagementthenAccount Settings.

3. Click theMeetingtab.

4. Verify that Closed Captionis enabled.

5. If the setting is disabled, click the toggle to enable it. If a verification dialog displays, click Turn Onto verify the change.

6. (Optional) If you want to make this setting mandatory for all users in your account, click the lock icon, and then clickLockto confirm the setting.

Group

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.

2. In the navigation panel, clickUser ManagementthenGroup Management.

3. Click the applicable group name from the list, then click theSettingstab.

4. Click the Meeting tab.

5. Verify that Closed Caption is enabled.

6. If the setting is disabled, click the toggle to enable it. If a verification dialog displays, clickTurn Onto verify the change.
Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at the account level and needs to be changed at that level.

7. (Optional) If you want to make this setting mandatory for all users in the group, click the lock icon, and then click Lock to confirm the setting.

User

To enable the closed captioning for your own use:

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.

2. In the navigation panel, clickSettings.

3. Click the Meeting tab.

4. Verify that Closed Caption is enabled.

5. If the setting is disabled, click the toggle to enable it. If a verification dialog displays, clickTurn Onto verify the change.
Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at either the group or account level. You need to contact your Zoom admin.

Starting closed captioning in a meeting

Note: If you want another participant to start and manage closed captioning in a meeting, make them a co-host.

1. In a Zoom meeting or webinar that you are hosting, click Closed Caption.

2. Click one of these options:

Assign a participant to type: Opens the participants window. Hover over the participant's name and click More then Assign to Type Closed Caption.

I will type: Opens the closed captioning window for you to manually type closed captions.

Copy the API token: Copy the URL that you can provide to a third-party closed captioning service to integrate the service with your meeting.

Entering closed captions as a participant

1. Once the host assigns you the ability to type closed captions, a notification will appear in your meeting controls.

2. Click Closed Caption.

3. This will open up the closed caption box. You will type the caption in the box and press Enter to submit it.

Using closed captioning in breakout rooms

If you're the meeting host, we recommend using a third-party closed captioning service if you want closed captions in breakout rooms.

If you want to a participant to type closed captions, make sure you assign them permission to type closed caption before starting the breakout room sessions:

Note: You can only assign one participant to type closed caption, meaning only one breakout room will have closed captions after you start the breakout room sessions.

After you start breakout room sessions, participants can click Closed Caption in the meeting controls to view closed captions.

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