Live caption

Live caption app using the Web Speech API and Electron.

Installation

1. Download the latests binary from the releases page and uncompress it in any location you like. Only Windows build is distributed, if you want to create your own build refer to Working from source.

2. Install Google Chrome.

Usage

• Open live-caption.exe, this will open a tab on Google Chrome and launch the caption panel.
• Give the application network access if requested to do so.
• Give Google Chrome access to your microphone.
• To close the application right click on the caption panel and click on close. Do not close Live caption Google Chrome tab.

If you want to display the audio comming from your computer instead of the one from the microphone enable Stereo Mix and select it as input device in Google Chrome.

Working from source

1. Install yarn

   npm i -g yarn

2. Install project dependencies

   yarn

3. Run in development mode

   yarn start

4. Build for the current platform

   yarn build

Credits

This application was inspired by https://github.com/MidCamp/live-captioning

License

MIT © Isidro Torregrosa Torralba