Ava is an AI-powered live captioning and transcription service designed to make conversations accessible for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, both in person and online. The app converts speech to text in real time, with SpeakerID color-coding that identifies who is speaking in group conversations, and supports live captions in more than 20 languages with translation into over 50 languages.
Core features include AI-generated live captions, Ava Scribe (a hybrid service that combines AI with human scribes for higher accuracy), Ava Voice text-to-speech so users can reply with a synthesized voice, and Ava Connect for one-click captioning of Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams calls. Sessions can produce automatic transcripts and summaries. The company was co-founded by Thibault Duchemin, a CODA (child of Deaf adults), and Skinner Cheng, who has been deaf since age two, and operates teams in San Francisco and Paris.
Ava serves individuals as well as organizations in workplaces, education, healthcare, retail, live events, and religious services, and states it has more than 150,000 users, with organizational customers including school districts and large enterprises.
Ava is available as a web app and on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac. A free plan includes live captions and speaker identification for sessions up to 40 minutes. The Community plan costs $14.99/month (or $9.99/month billed yearly) and adds premium caption hours. Pro and Enterprise plans, quoted by sales, add unlimited premium captions, longer sessions, on-demand Scribe captions, custom dictionaries, SSO, and dedicated support, with a 15-day free trial on paid plans.