Live captioning and translation services for performances and venues

Verbit’s live captioning, translation and audio accessibility solutions help theaters and performance venues deliver more inclusive and engaging experiences. Our tools support accessibility for a wide variety of theater-goers, including those in the deaf and hard of hearing and senior communities as well as those attending virtually. Whether it’s a musical, play or comedy show, Verbit makes it easy to connect with every member of your audience.

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Built for live performance venues 

Our AI-driven technology is trained with customer input to reflect the language and rhythm of live theater. From classic plays to modern revues, Verbit ensures every word on the stage is captured. Our solutions are customizable, scalable and integrate easily with your venue’s AV systems, content management tools and streaming platforms, offering seamless accessibility both in-person and online.

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Our products

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Venue Live

Verbit’s flagship accessibility tool for theaters. Display high-quality live captions on in-venue displays or stream directly to attendees’ phones via a dedicated URL with no new hardware required.

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Post-Production Captioning

Make archived or on-demand performance recordings fully accessible with custom caption styling and formatting. Ideal for streaming or ticketed replays.

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Theater Translation

Reach broader audiences with live or recorded translations in 50+ languages. Combine AI speed with human precision for accessible, multilingual content.

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Performance Transcription

Capture every word of your production — live or post-show — with precise, timestamped transcripts for archival, press or accessibility needs.

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Scalable for all needs

From religious holiday services to small weekly events, our AI-driven captioning and church transcription solutions adapt to your volume and workflow and are designed to scale with every need. With automated tools, human quality assurance, and flexible integrations, churches, temples, and synagogues and others can easily manage growing demand without sacrificing accuracy or accessibility. As your congregation or digital ministry expands, Verbit grows with you — ensuring that every message reaches those who need it most.

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Support for multiple languages

Verbit offers multilanguage captioning, transcription, translation and localization. Whether you’re in need of Spanish captioning or French transcription, you can leverage our professional services, with translation of audio and on-screen text into 50+ languages.

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Receive files in any format needed

We can deliver transcripts in any template of your choosing and accommodate customization needs for caption alignment. We support SRT files, VTT, SCC, SAMI and additional formats, plus offer RTMP support for broadcasts and live streaming. We also provide SMPTE timecodes, speaker identification, various spatial video formats and vertical captioning.

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Speaker identification

Coming soon: Our AI-driven engine, Captivate, is now enhanced with speaker identification, a first-of-its-kind feature for live ASR captioning. Unlike traditional captions that rely on chevrons (>>) or dashes to indicated speaker transitions, Verbit’s AI tags real-time dialogue with speaker names and identifies not just speaker changes but the speakers themselves.

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Check out our Venue Accessibility Checklist designed to help theaters assess their compliance with accessibility regulations and best practices for live event captioning.

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Captioning the Radio City Music Hall ‘Christmas Spectacular’

See how Verbit captions helped make the iconic Radio City Music Hall ‘Christmas Spectacular’ more accessible.

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