Apple Vision Pro Live Captions
by Apple
Real-time captions in visionOS — overlay spoken speech as floating text in your field of view.
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TL;DR
Best for deaf and hard-of-hearing Vision Pro users in supported English / Spanish / French / German / Korean / Mandarin locales. Pricing: Free with Vision Pro ($3,499 headset).
Category
Desktop apps
License
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Pricing
Free with Vision Pro ($3,499 headset)
Platforms
visionOS, Hardware
What it is
Live Captions on visionOS uses on-device speech recognition to surface captions over any audio source — phone calls, FaceTime, ambient room conversation, or app audio. Same recognizer family as macOS / iOS Live Captions.
Best for: Deaf and hard-of-hearing Vision Pro users in supported English / Spanish / French / German / Korean / Mandarin locales.
Watch out for: On-device but locale-restricted; FaceTime captioning still tagged "beta"; not a transcription product — captions are ephemeral, not saved.
Watch out for: On-device but locale-restricted; FaceTime captioning still tagged "beta"; not a transcription product — captions are ephemeral, not saved.
Install / use
Settings > Accessibility > Live Captions on visionOS
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | Yes |
| Languages supported | 6 |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Apple Vision Pro Live Captions vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Apple Vision Pro Live Captions | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Desktop apps | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Free with Vision Pro ($3,499 headset) | $4–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · $2 single unlock · 60 min free on signup |
| Speaker diarization | — | Yes |
| Word timestamps | — | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | No |
| Languages | 6 | 99 |
| Platforms | visionOS, Hardware | Web, API, MCP |
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