Live captions for bilingual rooms

Speak in one language. Everyone reads the other.

Bayan GlassCaption floats elegant live-translated captions over any presentation on your Mac. PowerPoint, Keynote, Canva, anything on screen. English to Arabic, and Arabic to English.

Download free early access See how it works Early test builds for Mac and Windows. Free for educators during early access.
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EN → AR
Open House 2026

The caption layer is click-through glass: it stays above fullscreen slideshows and never interrupts them.

Floats above anything you present with

PowerPointKeynoteCanva Google SlidesPDFVideo

Built for the room, not the studio

No streaming software, no capture cards, no per-event platform fees. One app, your Mac, and captions your audience can actually read.

Over any app

A transparent overlay stays on top of fullscreen presentations. Switch slides or switch apps, the captions stay put.

Both directions

English speech to Arabic captions, or Arabic speech to English captions. Same styling, one switch.

Recognition on your Mac

Speech is transcribed on-device. Your voice is processed live and never stored.

Whole thoughts, not fragments

It listens for your natural pauses and translates complete clauses, so the word order comes out right, especially in Arabic.

Your look

Gold on white glass by default. Size, colours, position and language pair are all tunable.

No per-event fees

Your hardware, your rooms, unlimited events. Nothing metered.

بيان. Clarity, in both directions.

Bayan means eloquent, clear speech. Whether the presenter speaks English or Arabic, the room reads along in real time.

English العربية العربية English

One room, two languages, nobody left out

Bilingual schools are built on a promise of inclusion. Bayan GlassCaption keeps that promise every time someone speaks: whichever language is at the microphone, the other half of the room reads along, live.

Faculty meetings

English and Arabic speaking colleagues, speakers switching languages mid-meeting. Everyone follows every speaker without waiting for a summary.

Parent-teacher conferences

When one parent reads English and the other reads Arabic, the captions carry the conversation. No family member has to translate for another.

Open house and assemblies

Welcome every family in the theater with live captions over the presentation on the big screen, in the language they are most at home in.

English intervention and ESL

Arabic speaking students in English classes see live Arabic support while the teacher just keeps teaching naturally.

Arabic for non-native learners

Staff and students learning Arabic stay immersed in the real thing while reading English support live.

Workshops and guest speakers

Visiting presenters speak the language they are strongest in, and the room reads the other. Professional development that includes everyone.

Three steps before you walk on stage

Open the app

Double-click. No terminal, no setup screens on presentation day.

Press Start

Pick English → Arabic or Arabic → English, then start listening.

Present

Go fullscreen in any app. Captions float over your slides as you speak.

Honest answers

Does it need the internet?

Speech recognition runs on your Mac. Translation uses an online service with automatic fallbacks, so a normal Wi-Fi connection gives the best results.

Which Macs does it run on?

Built and tested on Apple Silicon Macs running a recent version of macOS.

Is there a Windows version?

Yes. An early test build for Windows is on the download page, right next to the Mac build.

Is anything recorded?

No. Audio is transcribed live and discarded. Nothing is saved to disk.

How is this different from PowerPoint's built-in subtitles?

PowerPoint's subtitles only work inside PowerPoint and translate fragment by fragment. Bayan GlassCaption works over any app, translates complete clauses for natural word order, and lets you style the captions your way.

What will it cost?

Free for Al-Bayan Bilingual School staff. Early access pricing for the general public will be announced later. No per-event or per-attendee fees, ever.