Strongest fit
Who it is built for
- Deaf and hard-of-hearing people
- Inclusive organizations
- Students and professionals needing live captions
Ava
Live captions for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people
Ava provides live captions, transcription, and accessibility services for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Its web, mobile, and desktop apps caption in-person and online conversations, with Ava Scribe adding human review for captioning that meets ADA-compliance requirements.
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- Best for
- Deaf and hard-of-hearing people
- Pricing signal
- Free
- Primary category
- Transcription
- Last verified
- Jul 30, 2026
The decision
Should Ava make your shortlist?
Start with the job, the team, and the constraints. Product fit becomes much clearer when those three line up.
Practical use cases
Jobs it can take on
- Caption in-person conversations in real time
- Add captions to video conferences
- Store transcripts and generate conversation summaries
Before you choose
Know the tradeoffs
- Free-plan caption sessions are limited to 40 minutes.
- Ava Scribe availability is generally limited to weekdays from 8:00am to 6:00pm.
Inside the product
What you can actually do with it.
The core product capabilities, grouped around the work they enable.
Live captions
Ava generates real-time captions with speaker identification across mobile, web, and desktop.
Ava Scribe
Ava Scribe combines AI with professional human captioners to provide 99% accurate live captions.
Ava Connect
Ava Connect adds captions to video conferences with one-click integration.
Typical workflow
Open Ava and enable the microphone to begin captioning a nearby speaker or an online conversation. Participants can join an Ava Room, while the service identifies speakers and stores captions as transcripts that can be summarized.
Plans and official links
Plans and accessFree.
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Starting pointFree
Free planFree trial
See plans- Provider
- Transcense, Inc.
- Based in
- US
- Founded
- 2014
Official destinations
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