Daily Live Captions

by Daily

Built-in live captioning on the Daily video API platform.

TL;DR

Built-in live captioning on the Daily video API platform.

Best for developers building telehealth, customer-support or webinar apps on Daily's video API. Pricing: subscription · contact sales.

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Products
License
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Last push
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Pricing
subscription · contact sales
Platforms
Web

What it is

Daily's developer-platform offering includes live captioning APIs so app builders can add accessibility to embedded video calls and webinars without integrating a separate STT vendor.

Best for: Developers building telehealth, customer-support or webinar apps on Daily's video API.
Watch out for: Captioning ships as a feature inside Daily's developer plans, not a standalone product.

Install / use

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Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsNo
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

Daily Live Captions vs Whipscribe

FeatureDaily Live CaptionsWhipscribe
CategoryProductsTranscription APIs
Pricingsubscription · contact salesfree beta
Speaker diarization—Yes
Word timestamps—Yes
StreamingYesNo
Languages—99
PlatformsWebWeb, API, MCP

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