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Captioning with OBS (Browser Source)

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Using Zip Captions with the Browser Source in OBS to provide Open Captions for a Live Stream, or a Live Event.

To get started you will need OBS and Zip Captions open with an .

  1. In the sources window in OBS, click on the + and choose Browser

  1. Click OK to the prompt to create a new Browser

  1. In the URL box enter the following URL, replacing the placeholders with the information from your stream:

https://zipcaptions.app/stream/[SESSIONID]?joinCode=[JOINCODE]

Example:

https://zipcaptions.app/stream/9q4r-j2jk?joinCode=ewqe

In the height and width, choose a reasonable width for you needs and a height of around 400

Click on OK

  1. Click on the Interact button. If you are using Streamlabs OBS you will need to right click and choose Interact

  1. Now you can use the quick access settings in Zip Captions to set the On Screen Results to either 0 or 1, this reduces the lines of captions shown to 1 or 2 lines.

  1. Finally here, click on the Fullscreen button to remove the header and the footer. Click the arrow to hide the quick access settings.

You now have a panel which will show live captions being pulled from your Zip Captions session.

active broadcast stream