Ava

Ava is an AI transcriber tool. Ava provides real time captions, transcripts and meeting integration for Deaf and hard-of-hearing users, with an AI plus human scribe tier for organizations that need ADA compliant accuracy at lower cost than traditional captioning.

Ava is a live captioning service built around accessibility for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, and it is sold to organizations that need to include them. The core product turns speech into on-screen text in real time on mobile, web and desktop, with transcripts stored for later review and a one click summary of what was said. Captions arrive immediately after starting a session, and the service covers more than 50 languages with both transcription and translation. The platform is split into three layers. Ava App and Ava Desktop handle everyday situations on a phone or computer, from a lecture hall to a doctor visit to a conversation around a campfire. Ava Connect joins video meetings on Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams with a single click while keeping speaker identification intact. Ava Scribe is the paid tier for organizations: AI handles the bulk of the work and professional human scribes step in to reach the 99 percent accuracy figure the company advertises, which is the same quality argument CART providers make. The audience is twofold. Individual Deaf and hard-of-hearing users get a free path to captions on their own devices, which makes Ava a practical backup when an interpreter is late or unavailable. Institutions, meaning universities, hospitals, agencies and companies with ADA obligations, buy the Scribe and organizational plans, where the pitch is compliance at a lower cost than traditional captioning or CART. Pricing is quoted rather than published, with separate tracks for companies, educational organizations, non-profits and healthcare, and the company claims savings of 60 to 70 percent against traditional captioning services. Among alternatives, Ava sits between pure automatic caption apps and human relay services. It is more affordable than booking CART for every lecture, and more accountable than raw speech recognition because a human can be added when accuracy matters. The tradeoff is that the best accuracy is tied to the paid human assisted tier, and audio from remote meeting participants depends on the Connect integration rather than the base app.