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Web Captioner

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A retired browser-based captioning app now available as open source.

Web Captioner was a web speech-to-text captioning app created by frontend engineer Curt Grimes. The hosted project has been discontinued, but its source code was released publicly in 2023 for people who want to inspect, fork, or adapt it.

Why it stands out

  • The former closed-source captioning app is now available for community forks and code review.
  • The page is explicit that the hosted service is discontinued, avoiding ambiguity for returning users.
  • Its implementation is tied to a real production captioning project, not just a demo repository.

Good to know

  • The hosted Web Captioner service has been sunset and is no longer maintained.
  • Support for the original app is not available through the former live service.
  • Anyone using it now should expect to fork, host, and maintain the code themselves.

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