youdible: Deaf Live Captions

youdible is a live-caption app for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.

It turns nearby speech into captions in real time. So far, like other apps. The difference: the captions are not all the same.

When someone says your name, that one sentence turns red and large, the screen edge flashes, and your phone vibrates. On a bus, the driver shouting "Tap your card!" at you no longer looks like the chatter next to you.

HOW IT WORKS
- Tap Start; speech flows in as sentence-by-sentence captions
- Add your name and how it's often mis-heard (e.g. Rocky, Roki) in settings
- Three signals at once: the sentence turns red and large, the screen edge flashes, and the phone vibrates
- Captions render first, vibration follows — never "buzz but no words yet"

WHY
Existing caption apps compete on transcription accuracy. But a perfectly accurate gray wall is still hard to read. The problem was never "I didn't catch it" — it was "I don't know where to look." Apple and Google detect your name and show a notification; the caption itself never changes. youdible feeds detection back into the caption itself.

GOOD TO KNOW
- Needs internet (speech is processed on a server)
- Audio is never stored; it is discarded right after transcription
- Your name aliases stay on your device
- Currently in beta — real-world feedback welcome

Made by alokdalokhi.
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