Section 01
Who it's for
Timbra
We built Timbra for broadcast engineers, event producers, and digital media teams who need live multilingual captions that don’t fail — whether your audience is in the room, online, or both — at any scale.
Built for you
- AV and production teams who need full admin control mid-event — from a mobile device, anywhere
- Event production studios delivering captioned, multilingual live events for enterprise clients
- Enterprise event teams running global product launches, developer conferences and hybrid broadcasts
- Sports clubs, leagues and governing bodies streaming live matches, fixtures and tournaments to multilingual global audiences
- Broadcast engineers and media teams with zero tolerance for caption failure during live programming
The problems you experience, we solve
- Hardware encoders that fail to arrive or fail on the day — with no cloud fallback when the production can’t stop
- Caption infrastructure so technically demanding to deploy that AV teams avoid it altogether — leaving events with no captions at all
- Platform failure mid-event forcing viewers to disconnect and rejoin
- Caption tracks limited to one or two languages on legacy infrastructure
- On-site captioner costs of ~£25K per 6-hour event
- No live support available during a broadcast when something goes wrong
- Brand-damaging content on screen — mistranslations, misspelled names, and profanity filters that don’t catch what they should — in front of an audience you can’t rewind
Section 02
At a glance
Caption latency
Seconds to caption
Near-instant delivery to live players, keeping captions in sync with the action
Cloud-first
Outside the signal chain
Add and scale captioning without dedicated hardware or rebuilding your broadcast infrastructure
Ingest
Built for live workflows
Bring in live feeds via HLS, RTMP and SRT, with support for software encoders including OBS, Wirecast and more.
Delivery
Everywhere your audience is
Deliver real-time captions and translations to Brightcove, Mux and other live destinations
Speaker detection
Know who’s speaking
Automatically detect speaker changes in real time for clearer, easier-to-follow captions
Audio events
More than just speech
Automatically detect and caption applause, laughter and music for a more complete, accessible experience.
Enterprise reliability
Built for critical live events
Add PagerDuty monitoring for extra assurance when going offline isn’t an option
Resiliency
Built-in failover
Primary and secondary transcription keep captions running if a provider goes down
Section 03
Features
01Live stream captions10 capabilities
- Captions pushed to player within seconds; HLS, RTMP or SRT ingest, WebSocket and API
- Translation via Amazon Translate, DeepL and Google Translate
- Primary and secondary transcription services with automatic failover
- Speaker detection in live streams
- Audio event captions: applause, laughter, music
- Multi-track audio: caption multiple audio tracks on the same video stream
- Private mode: control who can see captions and transcripts
- Select which captions to show during an event
- Export VTTs from a live stream for QA
- Mobile device control
02In-room transcription4 capabilities
- In-room companion app for attendees to read along on personal devices
- Configurable in-room display for venue screens
- AI summaries of in-room events
- Live transcript widget (embeddable)
03Output options4 capabilities
- Plugin: Brightcove, Video.js, THEOplayer, HLS.js, Mux
- HLS output: inject captions into HLS manifest or use modified master playlist
- WebSocket API for custom player integration
- Caption proxy for securing delivery
Section 04
Integrations & platforms
Ingest · 3
HLS
RTMP
SRT
OVP / player plugins · 5
Brightcove
Video.js
THEOplayer
HLS.js
Mux
Conferencing · 2
Microsoft Teams
Zoom
Live platforms · 5
Brightcove Live
Mux
AWS MediaPackage
Cloudflare Live
Wowza Cloud
Translation · 3
Amazon Translate
DeepL
Google Translate
Section 05
Languages
Explore CaptionHub's language and locale coverage across transcription, translation, voiceover and live captioning. Capabilities vary by language.
Supported languages341 languages
| Language | Timbra Live Transcription | Timbra Live Translation |
|---|---|---|
| Abkhazian | ||
| Acehnese | ||
| Acholi | ||
| Afar | ||
| Afrikaans | ||
| Akan | ||
| Albanian | ||
| Alur | ||
| Amharic | ||
| Arabic | ||
| Arabic (Algerian) | ||
| Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | ||
| Arabic (Tunisian) | ||
| Arabic (United Arab Emirates) | ||
| Arabic (World) | ||
| Aragonese | ||
| Armenian | ||
| Assamese | ||
| Avaric | ||
| Awadhi | ||
| Aymara | ||
| Azerbaijani | ||
| Balinese | ||
| Baluchi | ||
| Bambara | ||
| Baoulé | ||
| Bashkir | ||
| Basque | ||
| Batak Karo | ||
| Batak Simalungun | ||
| Batak Toba | ||
| Belarusian | ||
| Bemba | ||
| Bengali | ||
| Bengali (Bangladesh) | ||
| Betawi | ||
| Bhojpuri | ||
| Bikol | ||
| Bosnian | ||
| Bosnian (Latin Bosnia & Herzegovina) | ||
| Breton | ||
| Bulgarian | ||
| Bulgarian (Bulgaria) | ||
| Burmese | ||
| Burmese (Myanmar) | ||
| Buryat | ||
| Cantonese | ||
| Catalan | ||
| Catalan (Spain) | ||
| Cebuano | ||
| Cebuano (Philippines) | ||
| Central Kurdish (Sorani) | ||
| Central Kurdish (Sorani) (Iran) | ||
| Central Kurdish (Sorani) (Iraq) | ||
| Chamorro | ||
| Chechen | ||
| Chichewa | ||
| Chinese | ||
| Chinese (China) | ||
| Chinese (Hong Kong) | ||
| Chinese (Simplified Han) | ||
| Chinese (Taiwan) | ||
| Chinese (Traditional Han) | ||
| Chuukese | ||
| Chuvash | ||
| Corsican | ||
| Crimean Tatar | ||
| Croatian | ||
| Croatian (Croatia) | ||
| Czech | ||
| Czech (Czechia) | ||
| Danish | ||
| Danish (Denmark) | ||
| Dari (Afghanistan) | ||
| Dinka | ||
| Divehi | ||
| Dogri | ||
| Dombe | ||
| Dutch | ||
| Dutch (Belgium) | ||
| Dutch (Netherlands) | ||
| Dyula | ||
| Dzongkha | ||
| English (Australia) | ||
| English (Canada) | ||
| English (Global) | ||
| English (Ireland) | ||
| English & Mandarin | ||
| English (New Zealand) | ||
| English (South Africa) | ||
| English (United Kingdom) | ||
| English (United States) | ||
| Esperanto | ||
| Estonian | ||
| Estonian (Estonia) | ||
| Ewe | ||
| Faroese | ||
| Farsi | ||
| Farsi (Afghanistan) | ||
| Fijian | ||
| Filipino | ||
| Filipino (Philippines) | ||
| Finnish | ||
| Finnish (Finland) | ||
| Fon | ||
| French | ||
| French (Canada) | ||
| French (France) | ||
| French (Switzerland) | ||
| Frisian | ||
| Friulian | ||
| Fula | ||
| Ga | ||
| Galician | ||
| Ganda | ||
| Georgian | ||
| German | ||
| German (Germany) | ||
| Greek | ||
| Greek (Greece) | ||
| Guarani | ||
| Gujarati | ||
| Haitian | ||
| Hakha Chin | ||
| Hausa | ||
| Hawaiian | ||
| Hebrew | ||
| Hebrew (Israel) | ||
| Hiligaynon | ||
| Hindi | ||
| Hindi (India) | ||
| Hmong | ||
| Hungarian | ||
| Hungarian (Hungary) | ||
| Hunsrik | ||
| Iban | ||
| Icelandic | ||
| Icelandic (Iceland) | ||
| Igbo | ||
| Ilocano | ||
| Indonesian | ||
| Indonesian (Indonesia) | ||
| Interlingua | ||
| Irish | ||
| Italian | ||
| Italian (Italy) | ||
| Jamaican Patois | ||
| Japanese | ||
| Japanese (Japan) | ||
| Javanese | ||
| Jingpo | ||
| Kalaallisut | ||
| Kannada | ||
| Kanuri | ||
| Kapampangan | ||
| Kazakh | ||
| Kazakh (Kazakhstan) | ||
| Kekchí | ||
| Khasi | ||
| Khmer | ||
| Khmer (Cambodia) | ||
| Kiga | ||
| Kikongo | ||
| Kinyarwanda | ||
| Kituba | ||
| Kokborok | ||
| Komi | ||
| Konkani | ||
| Korean | ||
| Korean (Korea) | ||
| Krio | ||
| Kurdish | ||
| Kyrgyz | ||
| Lao | ||
| Latgalian | ||
| Latin | ||
| Latvian | ||
| Latvian (Latvia) | ||
| Ligurian | ||
| Limburgan | ||
| Lingala | ||
| Lithuanian | ||
| Lithuanian (Lithuania) | ||
| Lombard | ||
| Luganda | ||
| Luo | ||
| Luxembourgish | ||
| Macedonian | ||
| Madurese | ||
| Maithili | ||
| Makassar | ||
| Malagasy | ||
| Malay | ||
| Malayalam | ||
| Malay (Jawi) | ||
| Malay (Malaysia) | ||
| Maltese | ||
| Mam | ||
| Manx | ||
| Maori | ||
| Marathi | ||
| Marshallese | ||
| Marwadi | ||
| Mauritian Creole | ||
| Meadow Mari | ||
| Meiteilon (Manipuri) | ||
| Minang | ||
| Mizo | ||
| Mongolian | ||
| Mongolian (Mongolia) | ||
| Nahuatl (Eastern Huasteca) | ||
| Ndau | ||
| Ndebele (South) | ||
| Nepalbhasa (Newari) | ||
| Nepali | ||
| NKo | ||
| Northern Sami | ||
| Northern Sotho | ||
| Norwegian | ||
| Norwegian (Bokmål) | ||
| Norwegian (Norway) | ||
| Nuer | ||
| Occitan | ||
| Oriya | ||
| Oromo | ||
| Ossetian | ||
| Pangasinan | ||
| Papiamento | ||
| Pashto | ||
| Persian | ||
| Polish | ||
| Polish (Poland) | ||
| Portuguese | ||
| Portuguese (Brazil) | ||
| Portuguese (Portugal) | ||
| Punjabi | ||
| Punjabi (Gurmukhi) | ||
| Punjabi (Pakistan) | ||
| Punjabi (Shahmukhi) | ||
| Quechua | ||
| Romani | ||
| Romanian | ||
| Romanian (Moldova) | ||
| Romanian (Romania) | ||
| Rundi | ||
| Russian | ||
| Russian (Russia) | ||
| Samoan | ||
| Sango | ||
| Sanskrit | ||
| Santali | ||
| Scottish Gaelic | ||
| Scottish Gaelic (United Kingdom) | ||
| Serbian | ||
| Sesotho | ||
| Seychellois Creole | ||
| Shan | ||
| Shona | ||
| Sicilian | ||
| Silesian | ||
| Sindhi | ||
| Sinhala | ||
| Slovak | ||
| Slovak (Slovakia) | ||
| Slovenian | ||
| Slovenian (Slovenia) | ||
| Somali | ||
| Spanish | ||
| Spanish (Argentina) | ||
| Spanish (Chile) | ||
| Spanish (Colombia) | ||
| Spanish (Costa Rica) | ||
| Spanish (Ecuador) | ||
| Spanish (El Salvador) | ||
| Spanish (Global) | ||
| Spanish (Guatemala) | ||
| Spanish (Honduras) | ||
| Spanish (Latin America) | ||
| Spanish (Mexico) | ||
| Spanish (Nicaragua) | ||
| Spanish (Panama) | ||
| Spanish (Paraguay) | ||
| Spanish (Peru) | ||
| Spanish (Puerto Rico) | ||
| Spanish (Spain) | ||
| Spanish (United States) | ||
| Spanish (Uruguay) | ||
| Spanish (Venezuela) | ||
| Sundanese | ||
| Susu | ||
| Swahili | ||
| Swahili (Kenya) | ||
| Swahili (Tanzania) | ||
| Swati | ||
| Swedish | ||
| Swedish (Sweden) | ||
| Tagalog | ||
| Tahitian | ||
| Tajik | ||
| Tamazight | ||
| Tamazight (Tifinagh) | ||
| Tamil | ||
| Tatar | ||
| Telugu | ||
| Tetum | ||
| Thai | ||
| Thai (Thailand) | ||
| Tibetan | ||
| Tigrinya (Ethiopia) | ||
| Tiv | ||
| Tok Pisin | ||
| Tongan | ||
| Tongan (Tonga) | ||
| Tsonga | ||
| Tswana | ||
| Tulu | ||
| Tumbuka | ||
| Turkish | ||
| Turkish (Turkey) | ||
| Turkmen | ||
| Tuvan | ||
| Udmurt | ||
| Ukrainian | ||
| Ukrainian (Ukraine) | ||
| Urdu | ||
| Uyghur | ||
| Uzbek | ||
| Venda | ||
| Venetian | ||
| Vietnamese | ||
| Vietnamese (Vietnam) | ||
| Waray | ||
| Welsh (United Kingdom) | ||
| Wolof | ||
| Xhosa | ||
| Yakut | ||
| Yiddish | ||
| Yoruba | ||
| Yucatec Maya | ||
| Zapotec | ||
| Zulu |
For the most up-to-date language and feature availability, explore our Supported Languages page.
Section 06
Pricing & plan requirements
Plan requirements
Enterprise · Event-based
Available for ongoing or individual live events, with usage calculated by output minutes per language.