What shipped, and when

This update is optional. 1.7.42 keeps working and can still go on air. The app downloads 1.7.43 by itself and installs it when you say so, never during a live event.

• Choose your processing region. In Account, in your dashboard, the account owner picks where the live audio of their events is transcribed: Europe (which also serves Africa and the Middle East), the Americas, or Asia-Pacific. Pick the one closest to where your events take place: every caption travels there and back. New accounts start in the region of their country, existing ones stay in Europe until their owner changes it, and it cannot change while an event is on air. Your account data stays in the European Union. It is already live and works without updating the app.
• A first-steps guide over the console itself, in six steps: audio, languages, placement, output, Scaption Access and going on air. Open it from the Guide button; on a new install it opens by itself.
• You choose what to keep when you close. Closing SCAPTION or signing out with an unsaved event opens a window: the transcript and the AI summary, on this computer or in your dashboard for 30 days. By default a copy stays on this computer; nothing goes to our servers unless you tick it.
• The transcript in your dashboard. A transcript you kept can be read and downloaded from Sessions, next to the AI summary on paid plans.
• The AI summary as a Word document. From the desktop app, the dashboard and the room link, the minutes download as .docx.
• A Room column in your session history, with the room’s name and code.
• The Vocabulary module is now called Custom vocabulary.
• From now on, the update window shows what is new in your console’s language: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian or Portuguese.

Open scaption.app/screen on any TV, projector or foyer monitor with a browser, type the room code, and it shows the same captions your audience reads on their phones, in large type, rolling up line by line as the speaker talks.

• One or two languages at once, stacked or side by side. The language being spoken on top and a translation underneath is the most common setup.
• Nothing to touch once it is running. Set it up the night before: everything lives in the link, so a screen that restarts comes back exactly as it was.
• The room’s QR code in the corner, or full screen between talks so latecomers can join.
• If the connection drops, the text fades and says so: a frozen caption on a wall never pretends to be live.
• In the app, Scaption Access has a card for it, and every link now has an Open button.

A third video output, beside NDI and HDMI

• Browser output with chroma key: two caption lines on green or blue, just like the HDMI output, in a browser on any computer, with no need to output anything from the operator’s machine. Bring it into your mixer with a capture card, an HDMI out or a browser input, and key it out.
• Styled like the console: font, size, line spacing, text and outline colour, outline width, background box and position.
• The same key colours as the HDMI output, so a mixer keyed for one keys the other without retuning.
• In SCAPTION 1.7.42 it sits in the Output module, with Copy and Open.

A congress with several halls running at the same time used to need one code and one QR poster per hall. Now a single printed code covers the whole event.

• Attendees scan once and pick their hall from a list that shows which rooms are live.
• Each hall keeps its own code, QR, moderation link and script, and anyone who came in through a hall’s own code can still get back to the list of rooms.
• Created from the dashboard, under Events, and released or expired all together.
• The app never offers the congress code for going on air (only the hall you are in) so captions can never end up on a code nobody can follow.

This update is required. From today SCAPTION needs version 1.7.42 to go on air. The app downloads it by itself and installs it when you say so, never during a live event.

• Closing SCAPTION no longer leaves a graphic frozen on the vision mixer. The NDI output is emptied before it stops: when you quit, when you switch the output off, and even if the app closes unexpectedly.
• Auto-detect follows the speaker. If they switch language mid-event, each sentence is translated from the language it was actually spoken in, not the one the event started in.
• A moderator’s Launch always reaches the screen, including in the seconds right after the operator stops and goes back on air.
• Recolourable graphics. The base and accent colours of the question card and the QR code can be changed, and the default accent is an amber that keys cleanly on green and on blue. The dark QR code is now white, easier for a phone to read.
• Smoother captions on phones and on the caption screen, with no jumps when a new line arrives.

Translation on the venue screen

• Translated captions land about 1.3 seconds after the word is spoken (2.5 s in the slowest one in ten). The worst-case wait before a sentence was even sent for translation dropped from 6.9 s to 3.7 s.
• Every translated line stays on screen for at least 1 second, longer for longer lines, and is written continuously, no pause between lines.
• Rows are capped at 44 characters, two balanced rows per sentence, never a lone word on the bottom row.
• Nothing is lost: a translation that arrives late is still shown, and the previous sentence no longer flashes back after a silence.
• No invented full stops on sentences that were cut mid-way.

The console

• Audio is a list of sources: microphone or desk, and the computer’s own sound. Each with its device or desk channel in the row. Simple and Advanced modes are gone.
• An audio interface with several inputs is picked from the row, input by input.
• Adding a source tells you what will happen before you press it.
• Every room link says who it is for (audience, organiser, moderator) and one button copies a ready-to-send message with all three.
• A window shows what a new version brings before you restart: never while on air.
• The right-hand column is now Console; Clear is a double press, no system dialog.

Style and languages

• Adjustable line spacing in the Style panel.
• Non-Latin scripts get the right typeface first in the font picker. Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Japanese and others.
• Simplified and Traditional Chinese are now two languages, on stage and on phones.

Also

• AI minutes keep 29 of 30 stated facts on a seven-hour event, up from 18.
• Scaption Access on iPhone opens with its buttons in view.

Five changes, all of them reported from a live desk rather than from a test.

• The caption window is a fixed two rows again. It used to grow and shrink between one and four rows as sentences arrived, which made the whole block heave up and down on the venue screen. It now fills, rolls up, and starts the next line underneath.
• The last sentence leaves the screen. After five seconds of silence the caption clears instead of hanging there through the applause and the next speaker walking on.
• Translations can no longer skip a line. A burst of finished sentences used to race each other; they are now paced so every line is shown in order.
• Scaption Access no longer waits for other people’s languages. A sentence still being spoken now reaches phones reading the floor language immediately, instead of waiting for a translation that reader never needed.
• Signing in is faster when opening Access from a QR code.

An audio input can now listen to a microphone, to your computer’s own audio, or to both at once. That one field is the whole of online-event support.

• Every platform works the same way, including whichever one appears next. SCAPTION listens to the sound your machine is already playing, so there is no per-platform integration and nothing for anyone to approve.
• No bot joins the meeting. Nothing to admit, nothing to block, and no second participant tile in the recording.
• Hybrid events run on any plan. The both setting sums the room microphone and the call into a single channel, so a hybrid event does not require a multi-microphone plan. The free trial can run one.
• Attendees on the call get the same Scaption Access link as the people in the room: up to 12 reading languages at once, each person choosing their own. Every meeting platform’s built-in captions render exactly one. Struck through on 1 October 2026: wrong as written. Zoom (tested) and, per Microsoft’s documentation, Teams can translate captions into each viewer’s own language with a paid add-on or licence.

The audience already has SCAPTION open on their phones to read captions. Now they can use it to take part.

• Ask a question from the phone. Other attendees upvote; a moderator picks one and puts it on the venue screen for whoever is on stage to answer out loud, which the caption pipeline then transcribes and translates like any other spoken line.
• Live polls (yes/no, yes/no/abstain, or A/B/C/D) with the tally drawn on screen as votes arrive, and an optional countdown.
• The moderator surface is a web page built for an iPad, not the desktop app. A moderator can run it from a signed link without having an account at all.
• Questions and poll results are folded into the AI summary, so the minutes record what the room actually asked and how it voted.
• Both the question card and the poll card can be placed anywhere on the same nine-point grid as the captions and the QR panel.

Put a QR code on the venue screen, or print the room code on the programme. Anyone in the room opens it in a browser and follows the event in the language they choose.

• No app, no account, no sign-in. A browser and the room code.
• Fifty languages at once. Picking a language nobody else picked starts translating it for that one person. Struck through on 1 October 2026: one event serves up to 12 reading languages at once, phones and screens together, chosen from a catalogue that has since grown to 58.
• Never a surcharge: not per attendee, not per language. That is a deliberate commitment, not an introductory offer.
• Optional read-aloud, spoken by the phone itself through headphones. Free and uncapped.
• Nothing is stored. The live captioning path writes no transcript anywhere.

The room code is the only credential, so anyone holding it can read along, which is exactly right for an open audience, and why a confidential session should use the venue screen alone.

One button turns a captioned event into a professional set of minutes: an up-front overview, topics, decisions, an action-item table with owners and due dates, figures and commitments, open questions, audience votes, and verbatim quotes. Written in whichever of the fifty languages you ask for, headings included. Struck through on 1 October 2026: the catalogue has since grown to 58 languages, and the minutes can be written in any of them.

• Available from the desktop app next to Save, and from the Sessions list in your dashboard.
• Included in every paid plan, with no metering and no per-summary charge.
• Long events are handled properly: an eight-hour conference is summarised in full rather than truncated.
• Real wall-clock times are cited where they earn their place, and on multi-microphone events the speaker names you typed are used instead of “Input 2”.
• This is the only place transcript text is stored at all, and only when you ask for a summary. It is deleted automatically after 30 days. Struck through on 24 September 2026: since SCAPTION 1.7.43 you can also keep the transcript without a summary when you close the app. Nothing is stored unless you choose it.