Ava

Ava is a live captioning and transcription service built for Deaf and hard of hearing people and the organizations that include them. It turns speech into on screen captions during online meetings, in person conversations and videos, and it keeps transcripts that can be summarized. It is available as a desktop app for Windows and Mac, a mobile app for Android and iOS, and on the web. Features include real time captions, an always on top captions bar that floats above other programs, speaker identification inside a shared Ava Room, translation into more than 15 languages, a voice option that speaks what you type, and an offline mode on mobile. Ava Connect adds captions to video conferences, and Ava Scribe adds professional human captioners who review captions live at 99 percent accuracy, for ADA compliant situations. The vendor states it is HIPAA and GDPR compliant and offers SSO for organizations. It suits Deaf and hard of hearing individuals, students, professionals, schools, workplaces and venues. Pricing is published and localizes by currency. The Free plan costs nothing and includes live captions in sessions of up to 40 minutes. The Community plan is shown at 14.99 per month, or 9.99 per month when billed yearly, in dollars or euros depending on locale, and includes 3 hours per month of Premium AI captions, with extra hours at $4.99 per hour. The vendor notes Community is not an ADA compliant plan. Scribe captions with professional human review are not part of the Free or Community plans, and organization and venue plans are listed separately on the vendor's pricing page.