Theatre captioning software
Theatre captioning often starts as an audience-access question. The practical work is deciding who the captions serve, where they appear, how the audience enters the flow, and how the team supports the service during a live performance.
Vocabulary
Captions, subtitles, and surtitles can mean different things depending on audience need. Accessibility captions usually focus on spoken content and relevant sound cues; translation subtitles focus on language access. Some productions need one path, while others need both.
SurtitleLive workflow
Related planning
Review accessibility, operations, and delivery choices before selecting a captioning workflow.
Decide whether one shared subtitle path is enough or whether two audience goals need separate workflows.
Separate scripted theatre needs from general live-captioning scenarios.
Open captions are visible to the room, often on a projection surface or display. Mobile captions are viewed on audience devices and can support language choice or more personal access, but they require clear audience entry and support.
It can fit some unscripted formats. Scripted theatre often benefits from prepared text and operator cueing because timing, edits, stage action, and repeated performances matter.
Yes, when the project is planned that way. Teams can prepare multiple enabled viewer languages and decide whether projection, mobile viewing, or both are appropriate for the audience.
