REPORTS
An event report and a debrief for each day
Conference transcription and live captions, from the room's audio to a transcript with a name on every line
Live Transcribe runs in the room or from Zoom, ON24 and Goldcast, with speaker names resolved to your CRM records. Captions for the audience as it happens; a transcript, summary and recap drafts the moment the session ends.
Booking a captioning vendor for every room adds up fast.
Transcripts and captions with a name on every line.
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What are conference transcription services?
Conference transcription turns what is said on stage into live captions and a written transcript, usually through a captioning vendor or a post-event service. Sessionboard does it inside the program: Live Transcribe captures the room's audio from a laptop, attributes every line to the speaker on the agenda, and files the transcript, captions and recap to the session and the speaker's record.
Live captionsSpeaker attributionMedical model30+ languagesKeytermsConsent controls
Real time
captions as the session runs
30+
languages for transcription and captions
1 person
presses Start in each room
0
apps to install or vendors to book
HOW IT WORKS
Audio in, captions out, transcript filed
Each room needs a laptop with Chrome on a wired connection, the soundboard or microphone feed into its audio input, and one person to press Start. The live transcript fills in a line at a time, each stamped with who was talking; the audio saves as it goes, so there is always a recording to fall back on. Stop, and the take finishes writing, recap drafts are queued and post-session recovery re-transcribes the recording in the background so a dropped connection or a late start is not lost. The transcript, summary and insights are filed to the session and to the speaker in the CRM.
ACCURACY
Accuracy that speaks your industry's language
Pick the General or Medical model per event; Medical earns its keep on a clinical or scientific program, getting drug names, procedures and clinical acronyms right. Add keyterms, the product names, acronyms and speaker names a model would otherwise miss, before the first session, because they cannot retroactively fix a transcript already captured. A board feed is what makes a large room accurate. Afterwards, search the transcript, filter by speaker and correct any line in place; recaps, exports and the attendee page use the corrected text from then on.
- General or Medical model
- Keyterms per event
- Edit any line in place
- Tag a voice once, named everywhere
- Re-transcribe from the recording
GENERAL OR MEDICAL, PER EVENT
LANGUAGES
Captions in the attendee's language, not only the stage's
Multilingual live captions detect the language per utterance when speakers switch languages on the same floor feed, with speaker labels staying on the people on stage. Translation stores translated transcripts for your team, and attendees pick their own language in the attendee hub: live captions, replay and the session transcript follow that choice. Captions you already have in SRT or VTT can be imported as a recording's transcript, and every transcript exports as VTT captions.
- Multilingual live captions
- Translation per attendee
- VTT export
- SRT / VTT import
- Interpretation channel option
CONSENT
Consent decided before the event, not cleaned up after
Two controls keep sessions that must not be recorded out of the pickers: Sessions available to transcribe limits the Capture picker and the Live Transcribe Console to the statuses you tick, and nothing is captured until a person presses Start. Live audio listen-in for remote attendees is turned on only with speaker and venue consent. A session captured by mistake is deleted to Trash, where it stops appearing in the library, the attendee view and everything generated from it, and Restore brings it back if you change your mind.
- Statuses available to transcribe
- Start is always a person
- Listen-in with consent
- Trash and Restore
EVENT CAPTIONING FOR ATTENDEES
What the audience gets, live and after
The attendee view is a public page for the event's content: live captions during the session, replay and recaps after it, from one link with no login.
RECAP
A branded recap for every session
SUMMARY
A summary drafted from the transcript
Live stage
Real-time captions, insights as they build, reactions and a live discussion, in the room or at home.
In the Attend app
Captions follow along on the phone; attendees save a moment with a private note that is never shared.
Replay
The recording's audio with synced captions, the transcript and the published recap on the session page.
Downloads
The AI summary as a PDF or image, and published recaps and reports.
AFTER THE SESSION
From transcript to recap, approved by a person
One event report and a recap per captured session, each drafted from the real transcript: an executive summary, key takeaways, topics and a LinkedIn caption, each a card you can edit. Everything lands as a draft; Approve, then Publish puts it on the attendee view.
Export it your way
A PDF for reading, a share card for social posts.
One recap, two layouts
Switch between the PDF and the share card before you approve.
Into the library, searchable
Every transcript can be searched line by line, speaker by speaker.
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Transcription and captions, answered
What is conference transcription in Sessionboard?
Live Transcribe captures a session's audio as it happens and turns it into a speaker-attributed transcript, live captions, an AI summary, insights and recap drafts. It runs in the browser on a laptop in the room, from the soundboard feed or a microphone, and nothing is captured until someone presses Start Transcription.
How accurate is it?
Accuracy depends on the audio feed and the vocabulary. A line from the soundboard beats a laptop microphone in a large room; a Medical model is available for clinical and scientific programs; and keyterms, your drug names, acronyms, product names and speaker names, materially improve names and jargon when added before the first session. Post-session recovery re-transcribes from the recording afterwards for a groomed final pass.
Which languages are supported?
Transcription and captions run in 30+ languages. Multilingual live captions detect the language per utterance when a room mixes languages on the same floor feed, and translation stores translated transcripts; attendees pick their own language in the attendee hub, and live captions, replay and the session transcript follow that choice. The Medical model is English-only.
Is this video streaming?
No. Sessionboard captures audio and recordings from the room or your webinar platform and turns them into transcripts, captions and content. Streaming stays with your AV or webinar vendor.
How do we handle consent and sessions that must not be recorded?
Decide before the event which sessions may be captured. Sessions available to transcribe limits the pickers to statuses you tick, so a closed-door or licensed session never appears in the console; nothing starts until a person presses Start; and a session captured by mistake is deleted to Trash, where it stops appearing in the library, the attendee view and anything generated from it. Live listen-in for remote attendees is turned on only with speaker and venue consent.
What do attendees see?
Live captions on the live stage and in the Attend app, where they can save a moment with a private note, then a replay with synced captions, the transcript and the published recap on the session's page in the attendee view. No login is needed.
What do we need in each room?
A laptop running Chrome on a wired connection, the soundboard or microphone feed into its audio input, and one person assigned to start and stop each session, either a team member or an AV crew member with a Live Transcribe Console invite link. No app to install and no captioning vendor.