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Lectures students can read, search, and revisit

Live captions for the lecture. Searchable transcript afterwards. International students follow in their language. Accessibility teams have the documentation. The instructor changes nothing.

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Lectures are dense, fast, and often delivered in a second language for a meaningful slice of the audience. Captions don't replace the lecture — they make the lecture usable for the way students actually learn now: while taking notes, while distracted, while juggling two tabs of a laptop.

Universities, K-12 districts, corporate training programs, and online education platforms run EventRecast across recurring lectures with no change to the instructor's workflow. The same recording the instructor already does is now captioned, transcribed, and turned into a study artifact every student in the cohort can use.

Why education teams add captions

Every student can follow

International students, students with hearing differences, neurodiverse learners — captions remove barriers without singling anyone out.

Searchable across the semester

Students search a single phrase across an entire course's worth of lectures and land on the exact moment a concept was explained.

Lectures in any language

Real-time translation lets one English-language lecture serve cohorts across regions. No re-recording, no dubbing.

Section 508 / WCAG 2.2 ready

Live captions meet captioned-media accessibility criteria out of the box. Documentation is automatic.

AI summaries as study aids

Each lecture produces an AI summary and topic tags. Students get a recap; instructors get raw material for the syllabus reference.

FERPA-friendly

EventRecast doesn't store student identity. Viewer pages are anonymous. Transcripts contain only instructor speech and any public Q&A.

How educators run captions

  1. Set up the course

    Create one event per lecture (or generate them from your syllabus). Each lecture has its own viewer link, but they group under a course in the dashboard.

  2. Lecture as you normally would

    Open the lecture event, click Start. Captions stream to every student who has the link. Whiteboard, slides, screen share — whatever your normal lecture format — doesn't change.

  3. Publish the transcript

    When the lecture ends, the transcript is ready. Drop the link into your LMS so students can search and revisit.

Captions are how students study now

When researchers ask students whether they use captions, the result is consistent: a majority of students with no hearing impairment use captions when available. Reading and listening together encodes better than listening alone. Captions are no longer 'an accessibility tool for some students' — they're how all students study.

When transcripts are searchable and persistent, they become the highest-utility artifact a course produces. A student preparing for an exam can search 'Calvin cycle' across the entire semester and land on the exact two minutes where the instructor explained it. That's a fundamentally different study experience.

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Related

Live captions for online lectures

Detailed coverage of the lecture-specific use case.

Searchable transcripts

How the post-lecture transcript becomes a study artifact.

Multi-language translation

Reach international students in their preferred language.