Olelo Captioned Calls 4+
Instant Live Call Captioning
MachineGenius
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- Free
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Description
Olelo by Sorenson empowers deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals to make and receive phone calls with instant live captions. Olelo offers captioned phone calls in real time at no cost to qualified deaf and hard-of-hearing users in an easy-to-use mobile app that integrates seamlessly into daily life and work.
*** As an FCC-certified captioned calling cell phone app, Olelo by Sorenson is for deaf and hard-of-hearing users that need captions to use the phone effectively! Your registration information is used only for purposes of preventing fraudulent use of Olelo ***
WHY OLELO?
No more landlines. Olelo goes where you go, allowing you to make and receive captioned calls from your mobile device anywhere with WiFi or mobile data service.
Fast, accurate, and easy, Olelo automatically transcribes both sides of your conversation in a customizable easy-to-read format, using advanced voice to text for deaf and hard-of-hearing that is 100% private and secure.
Accurate call captions appear in real-time for free-flowing, natural conversation.
No cost, ever. As an FCC-approved captioned call service, Olelo provides 100% no-cost call captioning to those with qualified hearing loss, thanks to a federally-administered fund.
GETTING STARTED WITH OLELO IS EASY:
1. Install the Olelo by Sorenson captioned calls app
2. Create an account. You must provide accurate account information to meet federal requirements and enable your service.
3. Receive your new Olelo phone number for making and receiving captioned calls. Or you can continue using your existing phone number and automatically forward them to Olelo on your mobile device or tablet for captioning.
4. Tap “Allow” when asked to grant permissions to Olelo. You'll have quick access to your saved contacts, captioned voicemail and voicemail alerts, and can dial and receive calls from any phone number, just like your regular phone.
5. Use Olelo to start making calls with instant live captions.
Olelo by Sorenson is exclusively for people with hearing loss who need captions to use the phone effectively in the United States only.
Olelo by Sorenson is available in the United States ONLY. FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS ANYONE BUT REGISTERED USERS WITH HEARING LOSS FROM USING INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) CAPTIONED TELEPHONES WITH THE CAPTIONS TURNED ON. IP captioned telephone service may use a live operator. The operator generates captions of what the other party to the call says. These captions are then sent to your phone. There is a cost for each minute of captions generated, paid from a federally administered fund. No costs are passed along to individuals who qualify for the service. ©2022 Sorenson, LLC. All rights reserved.
Please report any bugs and feedback to oleloteam@machinegenius.com
Happy calling!
Thanks,
The Olelo Team
What’s New
Version 1.18
Fixes an instant crash that some users would experience when opening Olelo.
Ratings and Reviews
Once a struggle, now after some updates it is amazing…
As I was tapping out a reply to the chat help person, I received my first Olelo call and the captioning and speed was ah-may-zing. Perfect. Both speed and accuracy. I even asked the caller if he could give me his impression of the delay in conversation while the speech-to-text was occurring and he said “there wasn’t any delay, I wouldn’t have even known…” That, is incredible. I’m late deafened (profoundly) and was a SpEd Technologist responsible for Accommodations and Adaptations for students and have looked at and used so many options as I am not proficient at ASL. Hamilton, InnoCaption, Ava, none of these were even close to the accuracy and speed of my first Olelo use. It was a pleasure talking on that call. Like I am still smiling. Thank you so much. Once the personalized voicemail greeting issue is figured out this app will blow away the other options.
Developer Response ,
Hi Mistanik,
We'd be very happy to help you if you email us at oleloteam@machinegenius.com, or use our Live Chat help which you can find on olelophone.com!
-The Olelo Team
Good App - Needs One Thing
This is a great caption app I always love the captioning of both ends for historical purposes and recall. Very handy. I didn’t find any way to quickly adjust the tone of the speakers voice from within the app. My hearing impairment make it difficult to hear deeper male voices. So some method of tone manipulation to increase the clarity for those that need it or either end of the spectrum of sound and impairment. That is the one thing I can think of at this first testing that would be a great improvement. Might I suggest something easy like Tone: High, Mid, Low to start. Then as development progresses you could add in the settings a way to input your own audio gram to that the tone is lost customized. But start with the easy and work out the other later. I’ve used every method of captioning and apps. I’m always willing to help in development and testing of possible betas for your profound hearing impaired users as someone with an IT background and Great understanding of the current technologies available for the hearing impaired and captioning. Much appreciated feel free to reach me. - David /. If I missed the current way to do the tone manipulation, just let me know. Thanks.
Developer Response ,
Hello David, thanks for providing us this feedback. If you would like to speak to a customer service team member about this, please reach out to us at oleloteam@machinegenius.com. Thanks!
Very happy camper!
I used other closed captioning apps for my iPhone and found them completely unreliable and unusable. I almost gave up until I found Olelo. I was extremely surprised and happy to discover the effectiveness, timeliness, and reliability of Olelo captioning. Before, I used to let calls rollover to voicemail in hopes I could figure out the message after repeated playbacks…but not any more! Because of Olelo, I now answer my live phone calls with far more confidence and found greater success in engaging with callers. Thank you Olelo! I can now call the world!
Developer Response ,
Hello, we are so happy you found Olelo. Thanks for the 5-star review! If you ever need any assistance with the app, please reach out to us at oleloteam@machinegenius.com.
App Privacy
The developer, MachineGenius, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Used to Track You
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Data Linked to You
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- Location
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
- Other Data
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Information
- Seller
- MachineGenius, Inc.
- Size
- 129.1 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Russian
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © MachineGenius, Inc.
- Price
- Free