Churches and schools
Free live captions on a big screen from your microphone
- Runs in your browser
- No sign-up
- Blink Brief never receives your audio or captions
This browser can’t turn speech into text.
Open this page in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge on a computer, or Chrome on Android. Firefox doesn’t support live speech recognition yet.
Not started. Your browser will ask to use the microphone.
Captions appear here as people speak.
Press Esc or F to leave full screen
Works in Chrome and Edge. Safari works on some Macs and iPhones; Firefox doesn’t support it yet. Captions stay on this screen only and disappear when you close the page.
Choose the language being spoken, press Start, and the words appear as very large captions while the speaker talks. Put it on a projector or TV for a sermon, class, meeting or talk.
How it works
- Connect the laptop to the projector or TV, and place its microphone (or a USB or lapel mic) near the speaker. A feed from the sound desk into the laptop works best.
- Pick the language the speaker is using. The captions are in that same language; this free tool doesn’t translate.
- Press Start captions and allow the microphone when the browser asks. Grey words are still being recognised and turn white when they are settled.
- Press Full screen (or F). Make the text bigger with the slider, switch to a light background in a bright room, and leave Auto-scroll on so the newest line stays in view.
- The speech recognition built into Chrome or Edge turns the audio into text. If it pauses after a silence, the page restarts it on its own.
FAQ
Which browsers work?
Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge on Windows, Mac, ChromeOS and Android work best, Safari works on some devices, and Firefox doesn’t support live speech recognition.
Where does my audio go?
Blink Brief has no server for this page and never receives your audio or captions, but your browser may send the audio to its maker’s speech service (Google for Chrome, Microsoft for Edge, Apple for Safari) to turn it into text.
Can it translate a sermon into Spanish or Korean?
No, this free tool shows captions in the language being spoken; translation onto each listener’s phone is what our paid version, in development, adds (see Paid version, above).
How accurate are the captions?
With a clear microphone close to one speaker they are usually easy to follow, while room echo, music and several people talking at once lower the accuracy.
Does it need an internet connection?
Yes, in most browsers, because the browser’s speech recognition usually runs on its maker’s servers.