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@Church-Cap Church-Cap released this 20 May 21:38
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Church Cap v0.1.0 public preview

First public preview of Church Cap, a local-first live captions app for churches designed to support people who are Deaf or have hearing impairments.

Church Cap takes audio from a church sound desk or USB audio interface, transcribes speech locally with Whisper, and lets visitors read live captions by scanning a QR code.

Highlights

  • Local Whisper transcription using faster-whisper.
  • QR-code audience caption page.
  • Password-protected operator dashboard.
  • Audio input selection.
  • OBS browser-source support.
  • Sensitive moment blank/pause mode.
  • Optional local Argos Translate support.
  • Bad-word censor for likely speech-to-text mistakes.
  • macOS setup/start scripts.
  • Windows setup/start scripts.
  • Optional NVIDIA CUDA runtime setup on Windows.
  • Quick-start guide and PDF documentation.

Notes

This is an early public preview for testing and pilot church use. AI captions and translations may be inaccurate. Churches remain responsible for their own accessibility, safeguarding, privacy, copyright, and data-protection policies.