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.”](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgMTAyNCA1NzYiIHdpZHRoPSIxMDI0IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjU3NiIgeG1sbnM9Imh0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnLzIwMDAvc3ZnIj48L3N2Zz4=)
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, […]
