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With a microphone on Readout’s screen (a webcam’s, or a speakerphone), the TV can caption the room by itself. Whoever is there talks, and what they say shows on the TV, big. Nobody needs a phone or the app open: it’s for a visitor at the TV, say.

Start and stop

The home board says along the bottom which of these works on that screen. Captions also stop by themselves after 10 minutes with nothing said.

How they look

Captions of the room follow the app’s settings: the languages, names and words, and how captions look, from the phone, tablet or computer that last opened the app. Swear words are hidden unless you’ve turned that off. Activity notes how long they ran, and who started and stopped them.