Trying to figure out which accessibility tool is best for you or your organization? As the strongest Verbit alternative on the market, Ava's live captioning solution goes beyond words. Here are a few reasons why organizations choose Ava (and why you might, too).
#1. Ava is built by the Deaf Community, for the Deaf Community
That means each and every feature is designed with accessibility front and center. Ava was created by Skinner (born Deaf) and Thibault (a CODA, born in a Deaf family) to bridge daily communication gaps between the Deaf and hearing worlds. Ava’s mission is to empower 450M Deaf & hard-of-hearing people with a fully accessible life, while Verbit isn’t centered around accessibility or the Deaf community.
#2. Read the room with SpeakerID
Ava is the only real-time captions and transcriptions service that tells you who is speaking. When using Verbit captions, all speakers appear as one in a large paragraph of text, making it difficult to follow the conversation. With Ava’s first-of-its-kind speaker identification technology for live captions, each speaker is color-coded and labeled - ensuring you keep up with the conversation in real-time.
#3. Captions available anytime, anywhere
Need live captions during a meeting on your laptop? Now need captions when you’re chatting to a classmate during a group project? Ava’s the app that goes with you 24/7. Available on the web, a floating caption desktop app, or on mobile, Ava is with you anywhere you go. You don’t have to carry your laptop with you for your coffee break like Verbit. Just open Ava on mobile and you instantly have live captions for any conversation.
#4. Features with you in mind
When creating every feature, Ava is thinking about accessibility for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing community. When using live captions with Verbit, you’re unable to talk back in the conversation — making conversations one-sided, which is alienating for people who are Deaf. With Ava, you can use Ava Voice to type a response back in the conversation type to be spoken with your choice of natural-sounding voices. Ava also has an adjustable desktop app meaning you can customize your captioning experience over any web browser or media. Verbit has a one-size-fits-all solution, which in fact, does not fit all.
#5. Test drive your captions with a free plan
At Ava, we believe that everyone should have access to live captions. That’s why we still offer a free plan with good, but not perfect, quality captions. When you need the highest quality of captions for important conversations, you can have your organization pay for 99% accurate captions that require a human in the loop or what Ava calls a Scribe. You can’t test-drive Verbit captions and thus get stuck with your contract that falls flat when it comes to accessibility.
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Ava offers complete autonomy in educational, professional, and personal settings. Contact Ava about how we can help you with live captions or transcriptions.
