Live Captioning Plugin

[Zeal]

Hi there, I'd like to add a live-captioning overlay to my stream to make my content more accessible to users with hearing impairments. I searched the forums to see if anything is currently available, and didn't find anything.

Do you have suggestions on how I could make this possible?

Thank you!

 

[Jack0r]

In general, this will be quite complicated. Unless you are just watching pre-recorded footage, in that case, just add the captioning to the video. But maybe someone has an awesome idea for a plugin that could help you. Maybe a combination of Voice Recognition with Text-Output and live update.

 

[Zeal]

Thanks for the reply! I'd like to do this live. I did a bit more searching, and found this program that might help. http://twitchcaptions.cybutek.net/index.php -- I haven't tried it, but maybe there is a way to display the text output as an overlay-similar to the way users can display their twitch chat as a text overlay? Curious what you think.

I'm preparing an accessibility presentation at my workplace to raise awareness of inclusive design with our developers. It's kind of amazing that 20% of all users have some form of impairment. 20% is HUGE.

Also, I found this conversation on Reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/2vh3cc/its_time_for_twitchtv_to_implement_live_captioning/

 

[dodgepong]

Thanks for the reply! I'd like to do this live. I did a bit more searching, and found this program that might help. http://twitchcaptions.cybutek.net/index.php -- I haven't tried it, but maybe there is a way to display the text output as an overlay-similar to the way users can display their twitch chat as a text overlay? Curious what you think.

Looks pretty interesting. You could definitely use Window capture on that, and probable even chroma key if you wanted.

 

[sneaky4oe]

The recognition quality is not ehough for me. :-( Nuance Dragon could understand what I just said, this one can't. On the bright side, it doesn't stop input if lost focus.

 

[Jan Ainali]

I have tried WebCaptioner in a window source and it works really well. Now, if it was possible to add the text to the stream as "real" subtitles instead of rendering them it would be awesome. That would allow for translations after the stream ended which would be great.

 

[dodgepong]

OBS now ships with (experimental) captioning capabilities built-in. See it under Tools > Captions.

 

[candrew]

I use the built-in captioning, and it works great.

 

[Robert Forsyth]

Just an FYI....
Youtube has changed the way they are doing captions with new live streams. They now have a custom URL to post the HTTP captions to for each stream. Can we look at getting that on the roadmap soon?

here is a link to the screen cap:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CCQs1e272C2zWjjB9dRz3VJDpgz5jpWs/view?usp=sharing
the embed did not work for me.

Thanks!
- Robert

 

[saileshkush95]

I use the built-in captioning, and it works great.

Please can you post the process that how you use