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I was in the audience of a panel discussion where the panelists were flanked by a pair of big audience-facing screens showing a rotating slideshow from a laptop (not synced to the discussion), with lots of screen real estate potentially available for captions. Each panelist had a microphone connected to the house sound system, and audience members who wanted to ask questions were handed a microphone by a roving staffer.

So, it seems like it might be possible to generate live captions with just a cable from sound system output to an input on the laptop, and captioning software. Does anyone know of such a solution?

Windows 11 has a live caption built in, not too sure how well it work though. But I use it all the time and it works pretty well with videos, teamspeak, etc.

CTRL+WIN+L will activate it.

Thanks, but I'm looking for something less basic. I want live captions for what the panelists and selected audience members are saying into their microphones. That'll be clearest in an output from the sound system (which is probably just fine for the non-hearing-impaired), so I want to feed that output into an analog (or maybe not these days) port on the laptop. And the captions need to go on one or both of the big screens.

For live captions, I’d look for a solution that supports your specific phone or computer and lets you adjust the text size and delay. It’s also worth testing it in real conversations, since background noise and multiple speakers can make a big difference in accuracy.

I've had good luck with my phone's built-in live captions in everyday situations — I prop the phone near the speaker in noisy restaurants and it works better than I expected, though it still trips up when a few people talk over each other. Keeping the mic close to whoever's speaking and bumping up the text size helps a lot. I'd definitely do a test run with your setup before relying on it for an event.

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