Case study · Accessibility

Live event audio delivered to any phone.

An assistive listening product that streams a venue's audio to attendees' phones in real time, with native iOS and Android apps and an admin for broadcasts.

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Client: OURCAST LIVE
Sector: Accessibility
What we built: Native iOS and Android apps, broadcast backend on AWS, admin panel.
Platform: Swift and Kotlin apps, Node.js API with MongoDB on EC2, S3 media, Next.js admin.

In short

OurCast Live turns a phone into a personal assistive listening device. A venue broadcasts, attendees tune in and hear every word clearly, with no extra hardware. Native apps on both platforms, a Node.js and MongoDB backend on AWS, and an admin for broadcasts, account types and interests.

The brief

Latency is the whole product.

Assistive listening only works if the audio arrives while the speaker is still speaking. Everything else is secondary to that.

What had to be true

Real time broadcast
A venue starts a broadcast and attendees hear it on their own phones as it happens.
Native on both platforms
Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android, because audio latency is where cross platform shows.
Accessible by design
Built to serve ADA aligned assistive listening without special equipment.
An operator console
Broadcasts, account types, interests and users managed in an admin.