Supercharge performances with added content.

Enrich performances with content, for live venues, streaming and recording.

Integrate subtitles, text, and other media with music and speech.

Enable multiple displays and views on demand.

Refresh web content dynamically and remotely, in real time.

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The Big Idea | Te Ariā Nui — Breaking The Language Barrier

The Guardian — New Zealand Opera to provide braille surtitles for live performances

New Zealand TV — NZ Opera adds braille surtitles in inclusivity move

RNIB Connect — Braille Surtitles, a Real Game Changer for Blind and Partially Sighted Opera Fans

What makes us different?

We intelligently align audio with other media to make responsive content.

We can deliver timely text to be rendered on personal braille devices.

Text can be delivered on personal devices in the chosen language of the user.

Our cues can be manually triggered. But they can also be auto-aligned in real time, using our AI technology.

Our Mission

To enhance the performance experience by integrating content.

Our Vision

We started with live streaming subtitles.
Our technology now integrates all kinds of content,
in venues and on screen, to enhance the performance experience.

We increase reach, accessibility and flexibility
for performing arts organisations and content providers.

Audiences are global as well as local, speaking many languages.
The breadth of contexts.live increases engagement,
raises profiles and maximises accessibility for audiences far and wide.

Portfolio

Live Opera

A brightly-lit stage in a darkened theatre, with many colourfully-dressed actors. Above the stage is a screen with words in English on it. In the foreground there is the back of a conductor's head, visible just above a screen.

Surtitles in the Theatre

A woman sitting in a theatre using a braille machine

Our braille option in use

A woman holding an iPhone. On the screen is a web address of 'contexts.live' above a black background with one line of chinese characters on it.

Using personal translated surtitles

Streaming

An image of a web page, with four panels. From left to right: a title panel indicating the piece is Idomeneo; a panel entitled 'No. 21 Quartetto', with the words/libretto below; a panel with the first page of the score, and part of the second page below; a panel with a YouTube movie, with words in Korean below.

Controlling the Subtitles

A man standing in front of a grand piano. There are 2 images of a person signing in the bottom right corner.

Sign language cues, in real time

A woman standing in front of a grand piano, singing. There are subtitles at the bottom of the image.

Oxford Lieder Festival 2021

Live subtitles for streaming

What audiences say

Services

What we offer

Reach

We specialise in precisely synchronised content display, dynamically and responsively aligned with live performance. We enable multilingual translation display for the spoken and sung word, aligned with millisecond accuracy. These features extend the reach of your artistic output to new audiences, globally, in real time. Click here for a demonstration of our innovative technology.

Accessibility

We provide enriched experiences through embedding sign language videos, text commentary and descriptive commentary, as text, audio or video. Increasing the accessibility of your artistic output means that diverse audiences can engage with your work in meaningful, inclusive experiences.

Scalability

Our unique alignment technology means that, once content is cued-up in our repository, all further live or recorded performances of the same work leverage that investment. For the first time, unnecessary and redundant labour is replaced by a powerful, scalable knowledge base of the repertoire, with cost savings and efficiency.

We are

Creative

Founded by the music tech entrepreneur and conductor Brad Cohen, and the technologist Hugh Glaser, our team bridges the divides between performance, text and tech. Our technology benefits from the cross-disciplinary approach espoused in our enterprises to date, including Seme4, Tido Music and Libmus.

Innovative

Our technology applies existing live-tracking knowledge to a new domain – performance. We use dynamic time warping algorithms to align with live performance, in real time – but with minimal intervention.

Engaged

Skilled and experienced in large-scale concert and theatrical production, performance and technical execution, our team will support you every step of the way towards realising the power of our solution in your artistic output. We are passionate about making a better experience for audiences through enriching performance contexts.

Pricing Tiers

You can mix and match as your needs change. Talk to us for more information.

Circle

You choose your preferred display styles

You add your texts to a simple spreadsheet

In the performance, you simply tap to cue

Content is transmitted live,
locally and online

Your cues are available for future re-use

from £100

per performance

AI Stalls

You choose your preferred display styles

You add your texts to a simple spreadsheet

You align cues with a reference recording

In the performance,
we align your cues automatically

Content is transmitted live,
locally and online

Your cues are available for future re-use

Annual licence

AI Box

You choose your preferred display styles

We prepare all cues and alignment for you

We run your performance,
on location or remotely

Content is transmitted live,
locally and online

Your cues are available for future re-use

License

Contact

Southampton, UK & Auckland, NZ

contact@contexts.live

Supercharge performances with added content.

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What makes us different?

Our Mission

To enhance the performance experience by integrating content.

Our Vision