Professional captioning software for live events. Stage Captions delivers production-ready live transcription for conferences, hybrid events, and broadcasts - accessible in seconds from any browser.
Hi everyone 👋
We’re Martin & Jarek - the team behind Stage Captions. Thanks for checking us out!
💡 What inspired us to build this?
Stage Captions started because we actually needed live captions for our own event. We were helping organize a medical conference in Vilnius 🇱🇹 and accessibility was an important requirement - but we couldn’t find a solution that was simple, flexible and event-friendly.
Most options were either tied to meeting platforms or felt like enterprise captioning tools that were expensive and complicated to set up for a single event. We wanted something much simpler: open a browser, start captions, share a link and let attendees follow along on their own devices.
So we built it ourselves - and used it live at the conference. Seeing people open the caption link on their phones and follow the talks in real time confirmed we were solving a real problem.
🎯 What problem we’re solving?
Our goal is to make live captions easy and accessible for events:
- no apps or downloads for attendees
- works instantly in any browser on any device
- minimal setup for organizers and AV teams
It’s built for talks, conferences, meetings and livestreams where accessibility and clarity actually matter.
💬 We’d really appreciate your feedback
Would you use Stage Captions for your events?
What features or integrations would make it more useful for you?
Feel free to leave a comment below or reach out to us via email at [email protected] - we’d love to hear your thoughts 🙌
Real-time captioning for live events solves a huge accessibility gap!
How do you handle technical jargon or industry-specific terms during live transcription? Can speakers pre-load a custom vocabulary?
Important work!
Love the origin story; building it because you actually needed it shows in the simplicity. The browser first approach feels especially event friendly, no downloads and no friction for attendees is huge. I’m curious, when you used it at the medical conference, what moment made you think, ‘Okay, this really works’? Was it attendee adoption, AV team setup, or something else?
Love that this is framed around real events, not just recordings, @martinc1@jarekavi
From an accessibility standpoint, I’m curious how you’re thinking about scale. For large conferences with thousands of viewers across devices, are captions pushed via a central stream or rendered client-side per device?
Also wondering if you’ve explored multilingual captioning live, or if accuracy at scale is still the primary focus.
Clean execution. Congrats to the team.
A simple solution for a very frequent problem, especially if you present to large audiences. I'm excited to see how you guys build this out :)
Congrats on the launch! 🚀 I absolutely love how stagecaptions.io makes live events more inclusive. In today's world, accessibility isn't just a 'nice-to-have,' it’s a core part of a brand's reputation. How does the system handle different accents or noisy environments during a live broadcast? Excited to see where you take this! 💪
Love this, its really smart idea. Live captions at events are always either overcomplicated or crazy expensive, so a simple browser link solution makes a lot of sense. Great launch, Martin & Jarek!
