Web Captioner's First Week: 50 Countries and Over 92,000 Words

Over the past week, Web Captioner has been visited by people across the world. It is very exciting to not only see people using it, but brainstorming new applications for it beyond anything I imagined.

If you haven’t checked out Web Captioner yet, go ahead and give it a try. It’s an accessibility tool that converts speech from a microphone into text on the screen in real-time. Currently, you’ll need to have the Google Chrome browser in order to use Web Captioner. Once you’re on the page, just click “Start Captioning”, give it permission to use your microphone, and start talking.

How People are Using Web Captioner

After making a post about Web Captioner on a Facebook group dedicated to people who perform audiovisual work in churches, a number of people expressed interest in the tool and began testing it in their environment.

Calvary Baptist Church in Alexandria, Louisiana was able to run Web Captioner using all of their existing equipment:

• Video showing TriCaster Captioning using Web Captioner, NDI Transmit and NDI Scan Converter
• NOAA Weather Radio Live Captioning Test
• Michael Wilson explains a "hack" for keying out the background in Web Captioner (Update: You can now change colors natively.)
• Discussion about vMix integration on the vMix Live Production Software forums
• Streaming Idiots Facebook Group discussion
• Visual Church Media Facebook Group discussion (approval required)

Visits from 50 Countries

United States

75%

Australia

6%

UKUnited Kingdom

4%

Canada

3%

Philippines

2%

New Zealand

1%

Sweden

1%

Other Countries: Germany, Mexico, Belgium, India, South Africa, Argentina, Switzerland, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Italy, Lebanon, Puerto Rico, Barbados

92,000+ Words Transcribed

13486

6/29

10707

6/30

3084

7/1

19719

7/2

15609

7/3

11123

7/4

16166

7/5

9657

7/6

Web Captioner only logs word counts, not text content.

What’s next?

Coming soon, you’ll be able to change the typeface, color, text size, shadow, and background color of text. You’ll also be able to change the position of text and add a second background color to use as a chroma key color.

Getting Support

The Web Captioner Users Group on Facebook is the best place to get help with Web Captioner and see how others are using it. You can also like Web Captioner on Facebook to be notified of new updates and upcoming features. If you’ve got an idea for something you’d like to see Web Captioner do, let’s hear it!