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Live Captions

Live Captioning for the desktop.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

At a glance

All of Live Captions is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

Live Captions is an application that provides realtime automatic subtitles for the Linux desktop. Only the English language is supported currently. Other languages may produce gibberish or a bad phonetic translation. Features: Simple interface Caption desktop/mic audio locally, powered by deep learning No API keys, no proprietary services/libraries, no telemetry, no spying, no data collection, does not use network permission Adjust font, font size, and toggle uppercase/lowercase Less confident text is faded (darkened), this feature can be disabled Running this requires a somewhat-decent CPU that can perform realtime captioning, especially if you want to be doing other tasks (such as video decode) while running Live Captions. It has been tested working on: Intel i7-2670QM (2011) Intel i5-8265U (2018) AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (2017) Steam Deck GPU is not required or used. The live captions may not be accurate. It may make mistakes, including when it comes to numbers. Please do not rely on the results for anything critical or important. More models may be trained and released in the future with better and more robust accuracy.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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