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Captioning your platform doesn't have to ship

Conference platforms, virtual event tools, and broadcasting providers can offer real-time captions to customers without building (or buying) a captioning pipeline of their own.

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Captioning is now a feature your customers ask for in RFPs. Building a captioning stack from scratch — speech-to-text, low-latency distribution, translation, transcript storage, accuracy tuning — is a project measured in quarters and a maintenance commitment measured in years. Most platforms can't justify that as a roadmap line item.

EventRecast embeds. Whether you're an event-platform vendor, a virtual conference SaaS, or an internal events team running a custom event app, you can give customers live captions without owning the captioning surface. Customers see captions inside your platform; we handle the work behind it.

What you get without building

Embeddable viewer

Drop the EventRecast viewer into an iframe inside your platform. Customers never leave your branded experience to access captions.

Translation included

Real-time translation across major languages comes with the platform. Don't ship a translation service — ship the multi-language story.

AI summaries and transcripts

Customers get captions live and a transcript / summary post-event. The post-event content layer is included.

Engagement analytics

Concurrent viewers, drop-off curves, language splits — exposed via the dashboard, exportable for sponsor reports.

Sub-three-second latency

Captions feel synchronous with the speaker. Your customers' attendees see live captions, not a delayed transcript.

Configurable per customer

Per-customer branding, language defaults, retention policies, and visibility controls. The platform behaves like part of your product.

How platforms integrate

  1. Provision events programmatically

    Customers' events are provisioned via an integration call. Each event gets a viewer URL.

  2. Embed the viewer in your UI

    Drop the viewer URL into an iframe (or use the embed sdk) so captions appear inside your platform's session view. Attendees never leave your product.

  3. Pull transcripts and analytics back

    Post-event, transcripts and engagement data are available via api for ingestion into your platform's reporting layer.

Build vs. buy, when captioning is on the roadmap

Captioning looks deceptively simple in a feature spec. The reality is a multi-quarter integration: speech-to-text vendor selection, latency tuning, custom vocabulary handling per customer, translation pipeline, transcript storage and search, accuracy SLAs, accessibility documentation. Most teams hit two of those and decide the second quarter belongs to a different feature.

EventRecast is the build-vs-buy answer for this category. The captioning surface is decoupled from your platform — you ship the conference experience, we ship the captioning underneath it. The customer sees one product; the engineering load on your side is an integration, not a captioning team.

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