How to Use SCAPTION with TriCaster: Live Captions in 5 Steps

Choose your plan

To translate (for example French speech into English captions) you need the Event Pro plan. Buy it as a single-event pass for one event, or as a monthly plan if you caption regularly. The Accessibility plan gives you the same NDI output but transcribes only, with translation switched off.

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Set up SCAPTION

1. Open SCAPTION on your computer.
2. In the Audio card, choose what to listen to: a microphone for a speaker in the room, or This computer's audio for a video, a stream, Zoom, Teams or Meet.
3. In Languages, set the Spoken language, and in The venue screen shows pick the caption language, for example French to English.
4. In Output, switch on NDI Alpha Output.

Add SCAPTION as a network source

1. In your TriCaster, add a new NDI source. The NDI Source Setup window opens.
2. In Device Name, choose the SCAPTION source from the list.
3. Click Apply.

Key the captions on a DSK

1. Assign the SCAPTION source to a DSK (downstream key) layer.
2. Turn the DSK on: the captions appear over your program with a transparent background.

Send it to the screen in the room

1. Send your program out the way you already do, through your TriCaster output.
2. Check the captions on the screen in the room.