Accessible Live Captions
Version 0.5.0 is now available — try the accessible way to do live captions.
A native Windows app that shows the right way to present live captions for screen-reader and low-vision users. It transcribes your microphone or any system audio in real time and puts every line into a full, scrollable, keyboard-navigable transcript that screen readers read naturally. Choose from four on-device engines including Whisper, a true word-by-word streaming recognizer, the Windows on-device NPU recognizer on Copilot+ PCs, or Windows' built-in speech. Everything runs on-device — no cloud, no API keys.
Get Accessible Live Captions
- Install Accessible Live Captions on Windows on ARM (v0.5.0, MSIX)
- Download the portable version for Windows on ARM (v0.5.0, zip)
- Read about why I built Accessible Live Captions
- All releases on GitHub — Accessible Live Captions
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- Report a problem or suggest an idea — Accessible Live Captions
On an Intel or AMD PC?
There is an experimental x64 build, but it has never been run on a real x64 machine — not audio capture, not recognition. It may not work at all, and there is no installer version, so the Windows on-device (NPU) engine is unavailable. Do not run it on an ARM64 PC; under emulation it has hung a machine hard enough to need a reset. If you try it, a report either way would genuinely help.
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