live caption
noun
a real-time transcription or translation of spoken language in live streaming or other live video content, displayed as a text overlay on the lower part of the screen.
live captioning
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a word derived from
live caption.
live-captioning
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a word derived from
live caption.
live captionnouna real-time transcription or translation of spoken language in live streaming or other live video content, displayed as a text overlay on the lower part of the screen.
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While the initial live broadcast will use SDR quality with live captioning, a higher quality picture plus sweetened sounds and subtitles will be delivered when the on-demand version hits Netflix for rewatching.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026
Giving older people with age-related hearing loss access to live captioning may improve their social relationship with family and friends, says Thad Starner, a computer science professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
The council’s public hearing on Tuesday was aided by four American Sign Language interpreters and live captioning.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2018
In July Tom Pritsky, co-founder of TranscribeGlass, put out a TikTok video that demonstrated his company’s live-captioning glasses providing subtitles for words that he spoke, and it went viral.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
Despite the media buzz, a relatively modest number of live-captioning glasses have been sold.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
But now he believes that the current crop has promise and that live-captioning glasses will soon be a normalized, household technology because of more portable batteries and speech recognition upgrades.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
Similarly, live-captioning software struggles to capture accurate conversation in these spaces.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 10, 2023
I tested both of these with multiple captioning services, including Zoom, YouTube, Facebook, and Google Chrome’s newly released live-captioning tool.
From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2021
