What is a Captioner and Do You Need One?

A laptop streaming a live keynote event, showing a speaker on stage with large real-time captions displayed across the bottom of the screen that read: “[Moderator] Welcome to our keynote event. Captioners convert spoken content into clear text in real time.”

It’s five minutes before your keynote goes live. The stream is queued up. Slides are loaded. Your panelists are mic’d. Then someone in your audience pipes up with: “Are captions enabled?” You turn on the platform’s auto-captions. The first few lines look fine. That is, until a product’s name is misspelled, a speaker gets misidentified, […]