Movie / drive-in mode
Use TV / movie check first. It shows if the phone is actually picking up the source before the speech engine tries to caption it.
Ready
A shared reading plane
Anywhere Captions
Tap start, point the phone toward the sound, and get big readable captions. Label who is talking and the app remembers their names on this phone.
Press Start Captions when you are ready.
Flat field
Only the reading plane. The folded surround is hidden; captions and controls stay in place. Close to restore the fold.
Who is talking
Tap a person so captions stay labeled. High accuracy mode can switch people automatically. Names stay on this phone.
Mic pickup
quiet
Put the phone near the TV speaker, not flat against it. This meter is boosted for quieter TV audio; aim for green while people are talking.
- Best: phone near a speaker, microphone edge facing the sound.
- Avoid: surround sound echo, loud music, fans, or putting the phone directly on the speaker.
- If the meter is green but captions still miss: the browser recognizer is filtering TV audio; native/cloud STT is the next step.
High accuracy mode
Checking server...
High accuracy mode sends microphone audio through richgibbs.dev to a speech-to-text provider for live captions. Free mode remains browser-provider based.
Speakers
Use Person 1 / Person 2 (or names you save) so you can tell who said what. The phone remembers those names. Automatic voice split needs high accuracy mode.
Privacy
No account. No database. Names and transcript stay in this browser. Read the privacy page.
Transcript
Use this to replay missed lines, then copy or download if useful.
Transcript
Browser support note
This phone browser does not expose live speech recognition to web apps. Try Chrome or Edge on Android, or Safari/Chrome on iPhone with microphone permission enabled. If it still fails, the next version should use a native app or cloud speech API.
The human part
Not another screen between us.
Built first for family. A broad, quiet place for words, so there is a little less guessing and a little more being here together.
Made with care, by Rich.