Live Captioning by Real Human Captioners. Not AI.
Expert stenographers captioning tech, medical, and academic events at 260+ words per minute, on-site or remote, anywhere in the world.
Real Humans. Real Accuracy. Real Time.
Automatic captions are everywhere now, and everyone has watched them turn a keynote into word salad. White Coat Captioning is the opposite of that. Every session we caption is written live by a professional stenographer who knows the vocabulary, hears the accent, and gets the speaker’s name right the first time.
We’re the only captioning firm that specializes in the jargon-heavy stuff: software and tech conferences, medical and dental school, social justice events, and graduate-level STEM. Our captioners are exceptionally well rated for speed and accuracy, and our screening process means no under-qualified or inexperienced captioner ever works on your event.
One in six people has some degree of hearing loss. Captioning gives them access — and it also serves international audiences, non-native English speakers, journalists, and anyone who wants a written record. We caption on-site and remotely, worldwide.
Captioning for Tech Conferences
We caption tech conferences live at up to 260 words per minute — from single-track meetups to multi-day, multi-track events with hundreds of speakers. Captions improve accessibility, make online participation easy, and give you an instant record of every talk.
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Captioning for Medical Schools
Our captioners know the language of medicine and keep up with the most rapid-fire and heavily accented lecturers. Students read the captions on a laptop, tablet, or phone, in the lecture hall or from anywhere.
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CART for Universities and Special Events
Commencements, lectures, theater, comedy, public forums. Captioning helps far more than the people who requested it, and we’ve been doing it for universities for well over a decade.
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How It Works
Captioning to Meet Any Challenge
No other company specializes in the kind of work we do, and when it lands in their lap, they’re often not up to the task. We seek out the captioning jobs that terrify other companies: high stakes, high speed, high visibility, and the highest possible standards of accuracy.
Live Captions for Conferences, Classes, & Special Events
We transcribe speech at speeds over 260 words per minute! Our team of highly trained stenographers can either be onsite at an event or remotely listening in. Captioning services at your event improves accessibility, allows online participation with minimal overhead, and provides an immediate record of each presentation.
High Speed & Accuracy
The stenographer turns the audio into correctly spelled and punctuated text in fractions of a second! The captions are then streamed to a secure online portal which customers can read using the web browser of their computer, phone, or tablet. For bigger events, the captions can be projected onto a large screen or Jumbotron.
Experience You Can Count On
There is no other team that has the experience that we do. We’ve captioned hundreds of conferences internationally and in every case, have delighted conference organizers AND participants. All of our captioners are exceptionally well rated for speed and accuracy and have extensive experience with technical jargon. It makes a world of difference.
And it’s all human. No speech-recognition software writes your captions, and no AI “cleans them up” afterwards. If you’ve been burned by automatic captions, read why that keeps happening →
In Their Words
“Came to our Rescue”
“Norma and her outstanding team came to our rescue after a suboptimal experience with a provider that was ruining everyone’s experience. Not only did they provide state-of-the-art live captioning for a very technical and challenging topic, but they were able to arrange their schedules and put everyone to work with just a few hours’ notice. The audience couldn’t believe the improvement.”
– Josep Jaume, FullStackFest
Live Captioning Enhances Medical Student Experience
“When White Coat Captioning started captioning my lectures in my second year, I noticed an amazing difference. All of the energy I had been spending on hearing the words, I could now spend learning the material… In fact, classmates who sat behind us often commented that they read over our shoulders to get information that they too had missed.”
– Alycia Reppel, M.D., UVM College of Medicine
“Easy, Consistent, and Accurate”
“Dartmouth College has provided open captioning at its commencement ceremony for over 12 years. When we used to rely on self-reporting, we would find ourselves scrambling to meet a request just weeks prior to an event. Though initially we were aiming to meet a need for a handful of guests, what we actually found is that hundreds of hard-of-hearing guests are also benefitting from the captioning service. Thanks to the services of White Coat Captioning, the process for providing open captioning is easy, consistent, and accurate.”
– Ernest J. Kiefer II, Executive Director Conferences and Events Dartmouth College