Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Afrikaans live captions and productivity tool for deaf and HoH people.

Follow any Afrikaans conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Afrikaans and major South African varieties.

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Captio AI app showing live captions in Afrikaans
Use Cases

Works in every situation

Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.

💬Everyday Conversations

Most Afrikaans conversations happen fast, at normal pace, without warning. Captio AI captions every word as it's spoken, so you can follow without asking anyone to repeat themselves.

🤟Communicating with Deaf & HoH

Hearing people often don't know how to adapt when talking with deaf or hard of hearing Afrikaans speakers. Captio AI turns their speech into real-time captions, so the conversation can happen naturally on both sides.

💼Meetings

In Afrikaans meetings, decisions happen fast and people talk over each other. Captio AI captions every speaker as they talk, so you never miss a decision or a question directed at you.

🎓Lectures

Afrikaans lecturers speak quickly, cover complex material, and rarely repeat themselves. Captio AI gives you a live transcript of everything said, so you can follow the content instead of straining to hear it.

🏥Doctor Appointments

Doctors speak quickly in Afrikaans and use clinical language that's easy to mishear. Captio AI shows you everything they say in real time, so you can follow your diagnosis and ask the right questions.

🤝Job Interviews

Missing a question in a Afrikaans interview means answering wrong or asking for a repeat. Captio AI shows you every word the interviewer says, so you can focus entirely on your answer.

📱Phone & Video Calls

Afrikaans phone and video calls are harder to follow than in-person conversations. No lip reading, often poor audio quality. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking in real time, so you do not need to ask for repeats.

👥Group Settings

In Afrikaans group conversations, multiple people talk at once and the thread moves fast. Captio AI keeps up with whoever is speaking, so you can follow without losing where the conversation is going.

🍽️Restaurants & Cafes

Background noise in Afrikaans-speaking restaurants and cafes makes speech hard to follow. Captio AI focuses on whoever is speaking to you, so you can have a real conversation through the noise.

✈️Traveling

In Afrikaans-speaking cities, airports, and hotels there is no margin for mishearing. Captio AI captions speech in real time, so you can navigate confidently wherever you go.

🎤Conferences & Events

At Afrikaans conferences, speakers are far away, acoustics are unpredictable, and you cannot ask for a repeat. Captio AI gives you a live transcript of every speaker, so you can follow the full event from any seat.

📺TV & Media

Built-in subtitles on Afrikaans TV, films, and videos are often wrong, delayed, or missing. Captio AI captions whatever is playing in real time, so you are not dependent on what the content provides.

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Dialect & Accent Support

Afrikaans dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Afrikaans and major South African varieties.

Kaaps dialect

Cape Afrikaans — spoken by Cape Malay and Coloured communities across the Cape Peninsula and Western Cape. The historically first Afrikaans variety, with strong Malay, Khoisan, and Portuguese influence from the 17th-century Cape Colony slave community. One of the most vibrant and distinct Afrikaans varieties. Captio AI handles Kaaps accurately.

Oranjerivier dialect

Orange River Afrikaans — the oldest documented Afrikaans variety, spoken along the Orange River in the Northern Cape and associated with Griqua, Khoekhoe, Nama, and San communities. The ancestral form from which many Afrikaans varieties descended. Captio AI handles Oranjerivier dialect accurately.

Griekwa dialect

Griqua Afrikaans — spoken by the Griqua people of the Northern Cape (Griquatown, Campbell). A sub-variety of Orange River Afrikaans with a distinct community identity. Captio AI handles Griekwa dialect accurately in conversational speech.

Oosgrens dialect

Eastern Border Afrikaans — spoken in the Eastern Cape and Karoo. Developed from the frontier communities of the 18th century, with a flatter pronunciation of the vowel 'a' compared to Cape varieties. Captio AI handles Oosgrens dialect accurately.

Namibiese dialect

Namibian Afrikaans — Afrikaans is the most widely spoken home language in Namibia. The Namibian variety has some distinct vocabulary from South African Afrikaans. Captio AI handles Namibiese dialect accurately alongside Standard Afrikaans.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Afrikaans audio in real time and discards it immediately. Nothing is recorded. Nothing is kept.

Not a product

Your conversations are not something Captio AI sells, shares, or monetizes — to anyone, for any reason.

Not used to train anything

What you say in a Afrikaans doctor's appointment or job interview never ends up in a training dataset. Not ours. Not anyone else's.

100% PRIVATE
Accessibility

Hearing accessibility for Afrikaans speakers

South African Sign Language (SASL / Suid-Afrikaanse Gebaretaal)

Afrikaans is spoken primarily in South Africa and Namibia. The deaf community in South Africa uses South African Sign Language (SASL), which became the country's twelfth official language in May 2023 after decades of advocacy. Around one million people use SASL. A separately developed Signed Afrikaans also exists — manually coded to follow Afrikaans grammar — but this is not the natural sign language of the deaf community.

South Africa has around 40 schools for the deaf, most using SASL alongside written English or Afrikaans to build literacy. The country's multilingual context means deaf people from Afrikaans-speaking communities often encounter both Afrikaans and English in formal settings.

For hard of hearing Afrikaans speakers, the fast-paced Cape vernacular and constant switching between Afrikaans and English makes conversations difficult to follow. Captio AI handles Afrikaans-English code-switching naturally and captions spoken Afrikaans in real time.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My team in Cape Town uses Afrikaans and English in every meeting. Captio AI handles both. I use it every day."

Anita 🇿🇦
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Hard of hearing, Cape Town

"SASL interpreters are not available for most situations. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Afrikaans when I need to."

Johann 🇿🇦
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Deaf, Stellenbosch

"My hearing started declining three years ago. I use Captio AI in Cape Town for work meetings and appointments."

Leanie 🇿🇦
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Progressive hearing loss, Cape Town

"Doctor appointments in South Africa move fast. Captio AI shows me everything in real time."

Piet 🇿🇦
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Hard of hearing, Johannesburg

"Captio AI handles Afrikaans-English code-switching accurately. I use it in every situation where I need to follow speech."

Soné 🇿🇦
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Hard of hearing, Pretoria

"I live in Windhoek and Afrikaans is my first language. Captio AI is accurate and fast. I use it at work and at appointments."

Hannes 🇳🇦
hannes.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Windhoek

"My team in Cape Town uses Afrikaans and English in every meeting. Captio AI handles both. I use it every day."

Anita 🇿🇦
anita.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Cape Town

"SASL interpreters are not available for most situations. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Afrikaans when I need to."

Johann 🇿🇦
johann.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Stellenbosch

"My hearing started declining three years ago. I use Captio AI in Cape Town for work meetings and appointments."

Leanie 🇿🇦
leanie.s***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Cape Town

"Doctor appointments in South Africa move fast. Captio AI shows me everything in real time."

Piet 🇿🇦
piet.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Johannesburg

"Captio AI handles Afrikaans-English code-switching accurately. I use it in every situation where I need to follow speech."

Soné 🇿🇦
sone.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Pretoria

"I live in Windhoek and Afrikaans is my first language. Captio AI is accurate and fast. I use it at work and at appointments."

Hannes 🇳🇦
hannes.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Windhoek

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