Caption This: Our Top-Rated Conversation-Captioning Apps
Do you have hearing loss and want to make communicating with others go more smoothly? Download one of our recommended captioning service apps to your smartphone or other device to easily turn your phone calls and social conversations into text.
Top Three Captioning Apps
All these apps are for Androidô or Apple® iOs operating systems; some are free for anyone with hearing loss, thanks to funding from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
- CaptionMate
Cost: Free
This app is ideal for people with multiple devices—you can use CaptionMate on your smartphone, tablet, landline or computer to transcribe both sides of a phone call in real time. Other pluses? It can caption 100+ languages and saves conversations so that you can reread them later!
- Ava
Cost: The basic plan is free; payment plans are available for additional usage.
Need a handy way to caption a video conference or in-person work meeting? Ava converts the microphone on your smartphone into a captioning service that turns speech into text displayed on your screen. Just share a QR code with your other meeting participants to add them to the conversation.
- InnoCaption
Cost: Free
InnoCaption is known for its top-notch automated captioning. But it’s also the only call captioning app using highly trained, live stenographers, available 24/7, to provide more accurate real-time captioning of phone calls. Choose the mode (human or automated) of captioning that’s right for you.
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Our audiology team also recommends Live Transcribe & Sound Notification for Android, which is brought to you by Google in conjunction with Gallaudet University. In addition to free conversation captioning, this app delivers notifications for at-home sounds, such as a ringing doorbell or smoke alarm, to your phone.
If you’re having trouble hearing phone calls or speech in person while wearing your hearing aids, our audiology team can help. Book an appointment now so that we can examine your aids for any issues and check your hearing to see if it’s changed.
