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CLUSTER CAPTIONS-HEARING-DESKTOP · 6 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2018-07-24

Real-time captions for hearing-impaired users

This cluster consists of apps that generate real-time captions for hearing-impaired users across calls, in-person conversations, system audio, and video. The cluster's dated history before the index start is too thin to read a shape from, with only 2 dated entries. Talksee and voices-in-view-ios lead on traction with 2 stars each.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2018: 1FEB 2023: 1AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 2
JUL 2018SEP 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 1 commercial · 1 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01CS2-Live-Translator5★1 mo—hobbyWindows accessibility app that translates CS2 voice chat, on-screen text, and incoming chat in real time using local OCR and speech recognition.
  2. 02InnoCaption: Call Captioning0★1 molivecommercialMobile app that delivers real-time call captions for people with hearing loss.
  3. 03voices-in-view-ios4★2 mo—On-device iPhone app that shows live captions for in-person conversations to assist the hard of hearing.
  4. 04VisualVoice0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyA macOS app that provides on-device real-time captions, translation and meeting summaries for deaf users, supporting Korean, English and Indonesian.
  5. 05talksee2★2 mo—hobbyDesktop application that generates real-time captions from spoken conversation using on-device speech recognition and language-model text cleanup, with speaker separation, for hearing-impaired users.
  6. 06Live Captions0★2 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop app that generates realtime captions for system and microphone audio to support deaf and hard-of-hearing users.

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