Lugs.ai

Lugs captions all audio playing on your computer and everything picked up by your microphone, and it does this without an internet connection.

That offline behavior is the detail that sets Lugs.ai apart from many captioning services, since the processing runs on your own machine rather than on a remote server.

Lugs.ai is an AI captioning and transcription tool built for people who are hearing impaired.

It listens to conversations, turns speech into text as it happens, and subtitles the world around you, from video calls and recordings to people talking in the room.

The team behind it is hearing impaired themselves, which shapes what the product is for: following live speech, not only producing transcripts afterward.

It sits in the speech-to-text and AI transcriber space, so it also suits anyone who wants captions or a written record of spoken audio.

The product is described as new, so expect it to keep changing.

Lugs.ai says accuracy is its main goal, though you will want to test it on your own audio and microphone setup.