CaptMe vs Earshot Live Transcription

CaptMe transforms your mobile phone into a live subtitler and translator for face-to-face conversation: - for all people in close contact with persons who are hard of hearing or deaf; - for travelers and businesspeople in multilingual situations. CaptMe transcribe, translate and identify instantly the different person speaking even in noisy environment, so that you can naturally speak. When speaking to a foreigner, it is no more necessary to search for words in foreign language. Enhance your CaptMe experience by buying our hands-free kit composed of an exclusive neck lanyard and a smartphone quickstand available on our store at https://www.captme.ai. The magnetic neck lanyard let you fix your smartphone through the Magsafe interface, screen facing your audience. Your real-time captions will be displayed under your face, like in a subtitled movie. The smartphone quickstand lets you prop your cell phone up on a table so you can easily follow along on the screen as others speak. CaptMe supports currently 53 languages for transcription and translation between each other: Arabic, Bengali, Bashkir, Basque, Bulgarian, Cantonese (traditional), Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean,  Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay (latin), Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian (cyrillic), Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili (latin), Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uyghur, Vietnamese, Welsh. Your conversations are not monitored or recorded by CaptMe. Your voiceprint is not stored without your consent. However, your anonymized voice data may be used by our European partner to improve speech recognition and transcriptions. CaptMe is EU GDPR compliant. Application and storage are 100% based on European cloud servers. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Earshot is real-time, on-device captioning for iPhone - for conversations, lectures, doctor visits, anywhere you want to read what's being said. It's a free app that captions speech and ambient sound in real time, inspired by a Deaf researcher who'd spent his career on captioning. Having a disability shouldn't cost you money or your privacy. So I built Earshot. • Free — no sign-up, no sign-in, no ads, no upsells. • Private — everything runs on your device. The only network call is to download or update the local speech model so conversations never go to the cloud. • Offline — works with no Wi-Fi or cellular connection. • Multilingual — 99 languages, and it can translate any of them into English. • Ambient-sound aware — recognizes hundreds of environmental sounds, with full-screen alerts for urgent ones: smoke alarm, carbon monoxide, doorbell, crying baby, phone ringing, sirens. Accessibility tools shouldn't themselves be inaccessible. Free should mean free. Private should mean private. WHAT IT DOES • Real-time captions in a clean, focused screen, plus a chat-style "feed" layout. Tap the cog for text size, vibration, and ambient-sound options. • Translate non-English speech to English on the fly. • Full-screen urgent-sound alerts with strong haptics; ambient-sound tags shown in the corner when you want them. • Save transcripts on your device as readable documents. Star the ones to keep, filter by 1:1 or group, by alerts, by starred. • Share any transcript as plain text — it never leaves your device unless you send it. WHO IT'S FOR Built for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community as a private alternative to cloud captioning. Also useful in loud environments, for language learners, and for anyone who wants to read or save what was said. PRIVACY Audio never leaves your device. No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. The AI model downloads once on first launch (~244 MB) — the only network request the app makes. Full policy at briankemler.github.io/LiveTranscribe/privacy. REQUIREMENTS iPhone on iOS 17 or later. Works offline after the one-time model download. CONTACT brian.kemler@gmail.com