Live Event Captioning

By using the software OBS, you can caption your live event using Zip Captions so that the captions are overlayed on your projections and on video shown on your screen.

There are a few ways to set this up.

Simple Method

Install the PWA version of Zip Captions using these instructions.

Please make sure that your browser supports installation of PWA's by visiting this page.

1. Open the PWA on your computer from the Applications Menu

2. Minimise the toolbar by clicking the arrow

Minimise the toolbar

1. Resize the window and adjust the number of lines to reduce the number of results shown.

Adjusting the number of on screen results

1. You can now place other applications over the top of your captioning window.

Captioning window placed underneath another window

Simple Method OBS

Using Websockets in OBS you can simply connect Zip Captions and OBS together. You can then livestream this to Twitch or to YouTube Live and turn on the captions on your feed. This is the same method that can be used for

Captioning with OBS | Zip Captions

OBS Complex

You can use the OBS Browser Source to capture a broadcast stream.

OBS Application Source

This allows you to capture a window on your desktop and chromakey it.

OBS Browser Source

This allows you to capture captions from an inbuilt browser window in OBS.

For all live event captioning, you can always choose to broadcast your captions to attendees by following the instructions on the Broadcasting Your Captions to Others page.