Live captions for face-to-face conversation

You do the talking. They read and reply.

For anyone hard of hearing. Nothing to learn.

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How Carbery works

Get the app for iPhone or Android

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Free to use. Nothing to buy until you know it works.

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Live captions: I've made us both a cup of tea.

Hold to talk, or tap once

Hold the button and say hello — or just tap it.

One action.No lesson.

One of you holds the button and talks. The other only has to read. Nothing to install, and nothing for them to learn.

  1. A hand reaches across a table to press the round green microphone button on a tablet.

    01

    You hold the button

    Whoever is talking holds it. One voice at a time, which is why it works.

  2. A hand rests on a table while soft ripples of sound spread outward across it.

    02

    Speak naturally

    Talk the way you always would. No slowing down, no repeating yourself.

  3. A tablet propped on a table shows large caption lines, with a hand resting either side of it.

    03

    They just read

    The words appear big enough to read from the other side of the table.

The moments people get left out of.

  • For the meal where the smiling and nodding starts.
  • For the quiet catch-up over morning tea.
  • For the appointment where every word matters.
  • For the joke that has already been repeated twice.
  • For grandchildren who talk far too fast.
  • For the car journey where nobody is facing you.

The same Carbery, on the phone in your pocket.

Native on iPhone and Android. The same one button, the same big type.

Carbery

How Carbery works

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play

The web app runs everywhere else, on whatever device is already to hand.

Built for the hardest listening days.

Every detail exists so one person can keep another inside the conversation.

  • Type that fits

    Captions grow to fill the screen. Long sentences scroll instead of shrinking away.

  • Flip it across the table

    One tap turns the captions to face the person opposite while your controls stay in your hands.

  • Replies, spoken aloud

    They tap a suggested reply, or type their own, and Carbery says it out loud in a natural voice.

  • Twelve listening languages

    From English to 日本語 to Português, with correct line breaks even where there are no spaces.

  • Who said it

    Tap your name before you speak, so every line carries the right person. Add the family's names so the captions spell them right.

  • Three appearances

    Warm paper, black on white, or white on black, whichever suits the reader's eyes.

  • The conversation, kept

    Scroll back through earlier lines when a moment needs revisiting. Stored on the device, nowhere else.

  • Private by design

    Speech is recognised on the device. No account, no recordings, nothing to set up.

Nine languages in the app.Twelve in the room.

The whole app — menus, settings, suggestions — speaks nine languages, and it can caption conversations in twelve.

  • English

    Would you like another cup?

  • 日本語

    もう一杯いかがですか？

  • 中文（普通话）

    再来一杯好吗？

  • 한국어

    한 잔 더 드시겠어요?

  • Español

    ¿Quieres otra taza?

  • Français

    Encore une tasse ?

  • Deutsch

    Möchtest du noch eine Tasse?

  • Italiano

    Vuoi un'altra tazza?

  • Português

    Quer mais uma xícara?

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The grandfather whose conversations inspired Carbery, smiling and raising a glass at a family meal.

It started at one family table. It belongs at many more.

Carbery began when a 99-year-old grandfather was finding conversation harder to hear. His family did not want him learning a new device at 99. They needed something that did one job well: make spoken words large, clear and easy to read.

The name comes from the street where he lived. The need is shared by many families: a parent, grandparent, uncle, aunt or friend who wants to stay part of the moment.

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