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Rylo
Rylo
Formerly Nagish
Captioned calling and a separate live-transcription function for in-person speech.
Features
Captions
- Supported: Live conversation captions
- Conditional: Speaker labels17
- Supported: Custom vocabulary
- Supported: Profanity filter control18
- Conditional: Pause caption display19
- Supported: Caption history20
- Conditional: Clear captions19
- Not supported: Human captioning21
- Conditional: Typed replies22
- Conditional: Floating caption window23
- Supported: Caption engine21Automatic speech recognition
Calls
- Conditional: Telephone captions24
- Conditional: Video meeting captions25
- Conditional: Incoming call captions26
- Conditional: Outgoing call captions27
- Conditional: Captioned voicemail28
- Conditional: Saved call transcripts22
- Conditional: Call forwarding29
- Conditional: International calling30
- Conditional: Conference-call captions27
Transcripts & notes
Audio input & output
- Supported: Live outputsOn-screen text
Availability & access
- Conditional: Recognition languages1arabic · bengali · Bulgarian · Chinese (Cantonese) · Chinese (Simplified) · croatian · czech · danish · dutch · Dutch (Belgium) · English (Australia) · English (India) · English (US) · English (UK) · estonian · finnish · French (Canada) · French (France) · german · greek · gujarati · hebrew · hindi · Hungarian · Indonesian · italian · japanese · kannada · korean · latvian · Lithuanian · Malayalam · marathi · Norwegian Bokmål · polish · Portuguese (Brazil) · punjabi · romanian · russian · serbian · slovak · Slovenian · Spanish (Spain) · Spanish (US) · swahili · swedish · tamil · telugu · Thai · turkish · Ukrainian · Urdu (India) · Vietnamese
- Supported: Account requirementRequired
- Conditional: Ongoing free core functionality4United States
- Supported: Internet required5
Accessibility
- Supported: Caption contrast controls
- Supported: Screen-reader support
- Supported: System text scaling6
- Supported: Dark appearance
- Supported: Caption display controlsText size · Contrast
Privacy & data
- Help-centre list for the Rylo app; the call language is chosen in Settings > Call Preferences > Language & Tone. The store listings name only English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Hebrew and Italian for multilingual captioning, and the list is not broken out separately for Live Transcribe.
- Applies to free call captioning (FCC IP CTS / IP Relay). "other" = speech disability. Under-18 users must be registered by a parent or legal guardian. Evidence: 1.2. Requirements for Use of Captioned Telephone and Relay Services.
- Service is available in the United States and its territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands).
- Call captioning is free for registered eligible users because the FCC reimburses Rylo; Live Transcribe and text-to-speech are offered at no cost by Rylo but are not FCC-reimbursed.
- Phone call captioning.
- Statement lists Dynamic Type on iOS and font size/display size adjustments on Android; the App Store accessibility label also lists Larger Text.
- Phone call captioning only; the policy says captions are deleted from Rylo servers once delivered. Where Live Transcribe processes audio is not stated clearly (it works offline, but the policy also says Rylo may record and store Rylo Live conversations).
- This describes saved call transcripts, not a claim that call processing stays on the phone.
- Live Transcribe (Rylo Live) input; no opt-out is described.
- Phone calls processed under the federal TRS program (IP CTS / IP Relay).
- Phone call captioning. Not established for offline Live Transcribe.
- Phone calls, including typed replies relayed as speech (IP Relay).
- Voicemail recordings; deletion is not reversible. No other saved audio recordings are documented.
- Transcripts are stored locally, so deleted transcripts cannot be restored.
- By email request with identity verification; Rylo may retain information required by law. (In-app account deletion is documented only for Rylo Desktop, which shares the same account.)
- Request-based access for residents of US states whose privacy laws apply; no self-service export is documented.
- Phone calls; separate captioning of your own speech is turned on with Settings > Call Preferences > Caption my speech. Speaker separation in Live Transcribe is not documented.
- Setting is in Settings > Call Preferences.
- Live Transcribe (in-person captions).
- Saved call transcripts are kept on the device; Live Transcribe transcripts are also saved to the device.
- Evidence: 1.1. Description.
- Calling and in-person transcription are separate workflows; calling eligibility applies.
- Phone calls only, not Live Transcribe. Turn on "Captions in Picture-in-Picture"; on iPhone, Start PiP Automatically must also be on.
- Calling eligibility must be checked separately from in-person transcription.
- By calling into the meeting by phone through Rylo (listed under who you can call); the mobile app does not caption meeting-app audio directly. Eligible registered users.
- Eligible registered users only (hearing or speech disability, US registration); calling requires an internet connection. Calls to an existing personal number are captioned only after call forwarding to Rylo is set up; otherwise calls to the Rylo number are captioned.
- Eligible registered users only (hearing or speech disability, US registration); calling requires an internet connection.
- Voicemail left on calls that reach Rylo (Rylo number or forwarded number). Eligible registered users only (hearing or speech disability, US registration); calling requires an internet connection.
- Existing number is linked by forwarding it to the Rylo number in the iPhone or Android phone settings; the carrier plan must include call forwarding.
- Only to the countries listed in the help article (for example Canada, Mexico, UK, Germany, Israel, Japan, Australia, New Zealand). Eligible registered users only (hearing or speech disability, US registration); calling requires an internet connection.
- Voicemail messages only.
- Voicemail audio only; recording of calls by the user is not documented.
- Search within an individual saved call transcript.
- Share sheet from a saved call transcript; file formats are not documented.
- Live Transcribe transcripts; call transcripts can also be shared from the saved transcript view.
- Phone calls. Eligible registered users only (hearing or speech disability, US registration); calling requires an internet connection.
- Live Transcribe (in-person captions); compatible microphone models are not listed.
App Store ratings & reviews
Praise
- Sampled reviewers value captioned calls, typed replies and help staying in touch; one praises support resolving call-forwarding trouble.
Google Play ratings & reviews
Praise
- Captions, typed responses and support help some users communicate by phone.
Complaints
- Call reliability, forwarding, verification and voicemail cause difficulties.
- Some users report unwanted calls or dislike account-information requirements.