What is Live Captions or Captions API? What is Live Captions or Captions API?

What is Live Captions or Captions API?

Julia Dolgoszyja

Question

  • What is Live Captions API, and what use-cases it covers?

Applies To

  • Live Captions API

Answer

The Vonage Captions API allows the customer to show live captions to their end-users in a Vonage Video session using a transcription service such as AWS transcribe. The primary use case of Live Captions is to provide accessibility to all participants in a video call. The customers can also use the Live Captions to build transcripts as well.