Braille captioning

If you’re deafblind, you can use our live captioning service.

You can ask for remote live captioning and have the text output streamed to your tablet. You are able to change the display of the text to suit, such as background colour, font colour, type and size.

If you prefer to use braille, we can accommodate this too. You need a refreshable braille display. This is a machine which displays braille in real-time. If it does not have a notetaking facility, it needs to be connected to a computer, laptop or tablet to work, using USB or Bluetooth. With this device, you are able to surf the internet, read emails, and read live captioning.

Refreshable braille display

Your captioner will link to your laptop with specialist software, and stream the captions to you. The captions are written all in lower case. The captioner can link with you remotely and stream live captions to you over the internet.

It is just like reading a running advertising board!!  MINDBLOWING does not describe this technology. 

Connecting online

The Braille CapTel service is a different kind of realtime captioning; this is for the telephone and is available in the USA. The service was launched in Australia in May 2015. A new service coming soon, CapTel 880iB allows users to read captions on a HDMI-enabled TV screen, so the captions can be enlarged to fit your TV display.

To find out more about braille live captioning, contact us.