A synchronisation engine, not just a transcriber.
Most tools turn sound into text. Shoora’s core does something harder: it knows where the speaker is in the text right now, and serves the exact matching line — translated and signed — to every phone.
The pipeline
Listen → locate → serve, in real time.
1 · Listen
Production-grade speech recognition, tuned for live rooms and reinforced by slides, script and syllabus so names and terms land right.
2 · Locate
The synchronisation engine finds, moment to moment, where the speaker is in the text — the piece no captioning app has.
3 · Serve
The matching line reaches each viewer’s phone — translated to their language and shown in sign language, side by side.
Built for noisy rooms
Theatres and lecture halls are acoustically hostile. Known-text mode and script priors keep quality high exactly where live-caption apps fall apart.
Competition analysis
Where everyone else stops.
No one combines speech-to-text synchronisation, pre-prepared translation, two-way communication and sign language in one platform — for both stage and classroom.
| Approach | Sign language | Known-text sync | Two-way | Noisy rooms | No venue hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theatre caption apps (GalaPro, Figaro) | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Live-caption apps (Google, Ava, Otter) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| AI sign-language (Signapse, Hand Talk) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Shoora | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Human interpreters are the gold standard where stakes are high — hospitals, courts — but expensive and scheduled. We don’t replace them; we take the 95% of everyday moments they can’t reach.