A screen recording of Captional during a church service. You can hear the presenter in the background, although the volume is relatively low and the room is very reverberant.
This video is a screen recording of the Captional Viewer App during a church service. The audio quality is rather poor, which probably demonstrates how an individual who is hard of hearing may experience sound in a very reverberant space, like a church hall.
An individual with partial hearing loss may be able to understand 70 to 90% of what is spoken. When a word or phrase is not understood, they can look back to the Captional Viewer App to catch up.
This might be a benefit to those of us with ADHD, when I find that my mind has drifted away I can scroll back in the app to catch up on what I just missed!
A few things worth knowing about the viewer app. It works on iPhone, Android, Amazon Fire tablets and in any web browser. People join with a Room Code or by scanning a QR code, pick their language from more than 70, and can change the text size and font to whatever is easiest on their eyes. Captions show up within about a second, and you can scroll back at any time to see what you missed.
The app is not only for watching. It also has a built-in streamer, so you can run captions for your own event right from your phone. For the laptop version, see the admin streaming interface demo, and to get your audience in the room, use the slide and QR code generator. If you want to see how a congregation uses it, read our church guide, or just try Captional for free.
