# Festivals and sports

Large venues bring their own captioning problems: crowd noise, long days across several stages, and audiences who follow on the big screen or on their own phones.

Line 21 sends captions to venue screens, to the stream and to a link anyone can open, and can mix live captions with pre-recorded content on a schedule.

Covers: Festivals, Cultural events, Sports events, Venues.

## What makes it hard

**Noisy audio**: Captions are only as good as the audio they hear. A clean feed from the mixing desk beats a microphone in the crowd.

**Long, scheduled days**: Stages run from morning to night, with live sessions between pre-recorded spots and announcements.

**Audiences on the move**: People move between stages and want captions on their own phones, not only on a fixed screen.

## How Line 21 handles it

### Straight from the desk

Send audio from the mixer, or your RTMP or SRT programme feed, and speech recognition or a captioner takes it from there.

[Audio and video feeds](https://line-21.com/docs/feeds/audio)

### Live and pre-recorded, on a schedule

Playlists mix live captions with .srt or .vtt files. Viewers scan a QR code to see what is live now and what comes next.

[Playlists](https://line-21.com/docs/project-types/playlist)

### Big screens and phones

Every project has a captions page at no extra cost, styled to match your event, ready for a venue screen or a QR code.

[Browser page](https://line-21.com/docs/destinations/browser)

### Fans watching from home

Encode captions into the broadcast or stream so remote viewers get them too.

[Caption encoding](https://line-21.com/features/caption-encoding)

## Further reading

- [5 tools for live captioning at festivals and large-scale events](https://line-21.com/blog/2026-07-18-5-tools-for-live-captioning-at-festivals)
- [Meet the moment: live captioning display choices](https://line-21.com/blog/meet-the-moment)
- [How to provide in-room captions at live events](https://line-21.com/blog/2026-07-24-how-to-provide-in-room-captions-at-live-events)

Talk to us: [contact page](https://line-21.com/contact) or hello@line-21.com.