curses
The premium Open Source alternative to Web Captioner
🎯 Best for:Streamers requiring multi-platform, real-time accessibility captions.
What is curses?
Replaces expensive live transcription services for accessibility in streaming. Utilizes local or cloud speech recognition to generate real-time captions for OBS and social VR platforms.
Tech Stack
TypeScriptVideo Editing & Streaming
Why curses?
- • Multi-platform output
- • Keyboard input support
- • Low latency transcription
Limitations
- • Accuracy depends on API choice
- • Requires API key management
- • Complex initial configuration
3/3/2026
Last Update
44
Forks
1
Issues
AGPL-3.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on Web Captioner)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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