Sound For All

What it does While platforms like YouTube or Google Meet offer built-in closed captions, thousands of digital experiences remain entirely inaccessible to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community.

What about live voice chats in Discord? What about indie video games? What about local audio files, uncaptioned podcasts, or obscure streaming sites? Accessibility shouldn't be a feature developers have to remember to build—it should be a universal right at the operating system level.

💡 The Solution Sound for All is a lightweight, blazing-fast desktop application that intercepts audio at the system level and overlays beautiful, highly-readable captions directly onto your screen.

Because it hooks into your OS audio (WASAPI loopback) rather than a specific browser or app, it captions everything. If your computer makes a sound, Sound for All can caption it.

✨ Key Features 🌍 Universal System Capture: Captures and transcribes audio from any application—games, Zoom calls, Spotify, or your microphone. 🔒 100% Offline & Private: Powered by a locally-hosted OpenAI Whisper AI model (ggml-tiny.bin). No audio is ever sent to the cloud, ensuring zero subscription fees and absolute privacy. ⚡ Hardware Accelerated: Optimized Rust backend forces the Microsoft compiler to use AVX2 vectorization instructions and dynamically forces Windows 11 to schedule the app on Performance cores (P-cores) instead of Efficiency cores (E-cores).

Built With

• cpal
• react
• rust
• tauri
• typescript
• whisper.cpp