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Getting started

From a blank account to captions on someone's phone, this is the whole path — no hardware, no app to install for anyone but you.

Create your account

Register with an email and password (or continue with Google). New accounts get 30 free captioning minutes to try the whole flow — no credit card required.

Create your first meeting

From the dashboard, click New meeting (or press ). You'll set:

  • Title — shown to viewers on the display screen.
  • Speaker language — the language the speaker will actually talk in, not the caption language. Choose English (translated to Spanish) or one of eleven other spoken languages translated to English: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, or Russian.
  • Caption languages — which languages viewers can pick from on the display screen (English and Spanish by default). How many you can enable at once depends on your plan.
  • Recurring weekly — optional; keeps the same link and QR code every week. See Recurring meetings .
  • G-rated output, speaker labels, operator PIN — all optional, all changeable later from the meeting's edit screen.

As soon as you save, the meeting gets a permanent display link ( captioncast.io/d/your-slug ) and a QR code — both are ready before you ever press Start.

Test your mic and go live

Open the meeting's control panel and pick the microphone feeding the room. Click Test mic and watch the meter — it reads "Mic OK" once it hears you. Then hit Start (or press ). If it hasn't heard any signal yet, Start will warn you once; click it again to go live anyway. See the operator guide for everything else on that panel.

Share the link

Project the QR code from the control panel, or open the dedicated full-screen QR page (/d/your-slug/qr) on a second screen. Anyone who scans it, or opens the display link directly, lands on a language picker — no account, no app. See Viewers, QR codes & languages for what they see next.