Live Captioning
Live captioning delivers accurate, real-time text of spoken content as it happens. Powered by certified human stenographers, this service allows deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, ESL learners, and all viewers to follow along clearly during television broadcasts, sports, live performances, and livestreamed events.
Realtime Ready Captions has over 20 years of experience providing professional live captioning across news, sports, religious programming, documentaries, network content, and more. We guarantee a minimum accuracy rate of 99% with captioning speeds of up to 250 WPM (words per minute). Professional stenographers deliver this high level of accuracy to meet strict ADA and legal compliance requirements, and we support both live and pre-recorded programming with flexible display options.
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Broadcast captioning, also known as closed captioning, allows viewers to read television programming in real time. It benefits deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, individuals learning English, and anyone watching in noisy public spaces.
Our team has extensive experience captioning a wide range of programming, including news, sports, religious content, public education, city council meetings, documentaries, primetime series, movies, and network shows. We support both live and pre-recorded formats with high-quality, fast-paced captions.
Captions can appear as roll-up (scrolling) for live events or pop-on (block) for pre-taped content and can be positioned to avoid covering important graphics or action on screen.
There are two main types of captions. Closed captions can be turned on or off by the viewer. Open captions are permanently burned into the video frame and remain visible at all times.
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Sports and in-stadium captioning ensures fans can follow announcements, commentary, and important information during live events. Stadiums are often loud and action-packed, making it difficult for many people, including those with hearing loss and the aging population, to hear clearly.
Captions are displayed on LED boards, Daktronics scoreboards, large screens, or mobile devices. While captioning was traditionally done on-site, many events now use remote captioning, allowing the stenographer to work from a secure location while still delivering accurate real-time text.
Realtime Ready Captions provides in-stadium captioning remotely for the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Blues, and on-site for the St. Louis Battlehawks at The Dome at Americas Center. We have highly technical expertise with dual outputs, where captions are delivered simultaneously to the Daktronics scoreboard or display inside the stadium or arena as well as to the MLB app and the Blues website application.
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Livestream captioning provides accurate real-time text for online events, webinars, virtual conferences, and streamed performances. Captions can be integrated directly into platforms or displayed on viewer devices, ensuring remote audiences receive the same high-quality access as those attending in person.
We provide platform captioning that outputs to YouTube, WebEx, Zoom, Adobe Connect, and Teams, allowing seamless real-time caption delivery across the most widely used virtual event and streaming platforms.
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Live performance captioning brings accessibility to theatres, concerts, and stage events. Certified human stenographers capture dialogue, lyrics, and announcements in real time so every audience member can fully experience the show.
Ready to Provide Full Accessibility?
Whether you need broadcast captioning, sports and in-stadium coverage, live performance support, or livestream captioning, Realtime Ready Captions delivers accurate, dependable, and client-focused services with certified human stenographers.
Contact us today to discuss the best live captioning solution for your next event and provide accessibility and accommodations for all.
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