CaptionBee

CaptionBee is a Free Tool to help with embedding ClosedCaptions into your Livestream. This is created out of Frustration about the current state of Tools and their Pricing,especially for embedded Captions.

Features

• Embed Captions pulled from Streamtext into OBS

Config

Example Config.json :

{
    "obsHost": "127.0.0.1",
    "obsPort": 4455,
    "obsPassword": "",
    "streamTextEvent": ""
}

Usage

You will need to have the following :

• Streamtext Account / Event ID
• OBS installed
• Web sockets enabled

1. Configure the Tool using Config.json
2. Configure OBS Websocket and set the port,host and password in Config.json
3. in OBS, go to Tools > Options > Captions (Experimental) and enable captions on a muted audio source via speech-to-text (don't worry, those bad captions will get overridden by this tool)
4. Your Ready, your human stenographer / live Captioner / CART provider should start sending to Streamtext.

Development

Clone this Repository and then run the following commands: npm install npm run build npm run dev

Current Limitations

• Only supports Streamtext.
• Doesn't group text by words before sending
• Doesn't delay and doesn't allow for Editing

Roadmap

We're actively working on improving CaptionBee. Here are some features in development:

• Directly Ingest Captions locally instead of going through StreamText
• Group text together and use a small delay for Corrections
• Testmode that sends Text for testing
• Control OBS streaming so that this all can be packed into Docker for Headless usage

Aknowledges

Big Thanks go to the following Projects that CaptionBee is built on top of :

• OBS Studio
• LibCaption
• obs-websocket-streamtext-captions

Alternative

If CaptionBee doesn't work for you check these out :

• AcessLopp
• EEG Falcon
• SyncWords

Contact

Please open an Issue for Feature Requests and Issues.

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