Rogervoice Launches In-Person Captioning

Rogervoice, a captioning app provider, has launched free in-person captioning. The new feature brings real-time captions and saved transcripts to face-to-face conversations.

Rogervoice's new in-person captioning feature lets users read along as conversations happen, so they can stay in the moment and revisit the details afterward.

Available through the new Live tab in the Rogervoice app, users open the app, start a session, and let the conversation unfold. Speech appears in real time in an adjustable, full-width caption area . Captioning runs directly on the user's phone, works offline, and is available in 45 languages on iPhone and 15 on Android. Afterward, users can revisit and export their saved transcripts.

"Earlier this year in our State of the Phone Call Survey, we found that 60 percent of Americans believe phone calls are not fully accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. But conversations don't stop at the end of a call. People need to keep up at work, at the doctor's office, and with the people they love. We built Rogervoice around that reality, and in-person captioning is another way to help people stay connected and keep moving on their own terms," said Olivier Jeannel, founder of Rogervoice, who has been deaf since age two.

Captioned calls are FCC-certified and free for eligible users, while in-person captioning is free. Captioning is AI-only, with no human listener on calls, no ads and no data sold. In-person captioning works offline and on-device, so conversation data never leaves the user's phone.