Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Arabic conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Gulf Arabic, and Levantine Arabic.

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Captio AI app showing live captions in Arabic
Use Cases

Works in every situation

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

💬Everyday Conversations

Most Arabic 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 Arabic speakers. Captio AI turns their speech into real-time captions, so the conversation can happen naturally on both sides.

💼Meetings

In Arabic 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

Arabic 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 Arabic 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 Arabic 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

Arabic 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 Arabic 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 Arabic-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 Arabic-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 Arabic 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 Arabic 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

Arabic dialect & accent support

Supports Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Gulf Arabic, and Levantine Arabic.

Fusha / Modern Standard Arabic

The formal written and broadcast standard used across all Arabic-speaking countries. Used in news, official speech, and formal education. Captio AI handles MSA with full accuracy.

Egyptian Arabic dialect

The most widely understood Arabic dialect globally due to Egypt's cultural influence. Spoken by ~100 million people — the de facto common dialect of the Arab world. Captio AI handles Egyptian Arabic accurately.

Levantine dialect

Spoken in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine. Known for its soft pronunciation and relatively clear intelligibility. Captio AI handles Levantine Arabic accurately.

Gulf dialect

Spoken in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman. Distinct pronunciation and vocabulary from other Arabic varieties. Captio AI handles Gulf Arabic across its regional sub-varieties.

Mesopotamian dialect

Spoken in Iraq — bridging features between Gulf and Levantine dialects. Around 40 million speakers. Has distinct phonetic and grammatical features. Captio AI handles Iraqi Arabic accurately.

Maghrebi dialect

Spoken in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. Heavily influenced by Berber, French, and Spanish — the most distinct Arabic variety. Moroccan Darija has limited mutual intelligibility with eastern dialects.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Arabic 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 Arabic 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 Arabic speakers

Egyptian Sign LanguageSaudi Sign LanguageLevantine Sign LanguageMoroccan Sign Languageand more

Arabic is the official language of 22 countries, but there is no single Arabic sign language that connects them. Each country has developed its own: Egyptian Sign Language, Saudi Sign Language, Levantine Sign Language, Moroccan Sign Language, and more. Deaf communities across the Arab world often cannot sign with each other across borders.

Since 1999, the League of Arab States has been developing a Unified Arabic Sign Language (UASL), with workshops producing thousands of standardized signs. Deaf communities across the region have largely resisted it. Many deaf Arabs report that they cannot understand the compiled vocabulary, and that the project threatens to displace the natural sign languages their communities developed organically. The unification effort remains deeply contested.

For hard of hearing Arabic speakers, formal settings are where the accessibility gap is felt most directly. Medical consultations in Arabic-speaking countries rarely include sign language interpretation. Arabic diglossia adds an extra layer of difficulty: the Modern Standard Arabic used in hospitals and government offices is significantly different from the spoken dialect most people use at home, making it harder for hard of hearing people to follow official contexts even with partial hearing.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"I was worried the app would only work with Modern Standard Arabic. But Captio AI handles Gulf Arabic, which is what people actually speak in Dubai. I use it for work meetings every day."

Layla 🇦🇪
layla.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Dubai

"Egyptian Arabic is what people speak here, not the formal written standard. Captio AI follows Egyptian Arabic accurately. I use it at the doctor and for any official situation."

Ahmed 🇪🇬
ahmed.m***@gmail.com
Deaf, Cairo

"People in Beirut switch between Arabic, French, and English mid-sentence. Captio AI follows the Arabic parts clearly. I use it at work and at family gatherings."

Nour 🇱🇧
nour.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Beirut

"My hearing has been getting worse and I rely more on Captio AI each month. Gulf Arabic in Riyadh is well supported. It follows the pace and vocabulary of everyday speech here."

Khalid 🇸🇦
khalid.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Riyadh

"Captio AI is the first Arabic captioning app accurate enough to be useful in real conversation. I use it in meetings and at appointments and it does not make mistakes on basic words."

Rania 🇦🇪
rania.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, Abu Dhabi

"University lectures in Egypt are in Arabic and they move fast. Captio AI gives me a live transcript so I can follow each lecture. The accuracy is good enough that I trust it for my studies."

Omar 🇪🇬
omar.f***@gmail.com
Deaf, Alexandria

"I was worried the app would only work with Modern Standard Arabic. But Captio AI handles Gulf Arabic, which is what people actually speak in Dubai. I use it for work meetings every day."

Layla 🇦🇪
layla.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Dubai

"Egyptian Arabic is what people speak here, not the formal written standard. Captio AI follows Egyptian Arabic accurately. I use it at the doctor and for any official situation."

Ahmed 🇪🇬
ahmed.m***@gmail.com
Deaf, Cairo

"People in Beirut switch between Arabic, French, and English mid-sentence. Captio AI follows the Arabic parts clearly. I use it at work and at family gatherings."

Nour 🇱🇧
nour.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Beirut

"My hearing has been getting worse and I rely more on Captio AI each month. Gulf Arabic in Riyadh is well supported. It follows the pace and vocabulary of everyday speech here."

Khalid 🇸🇦
khalid.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Riyadh

"Captio AI is the first Arabic captioning app accurate enough to be useful in real conversation. I use it in meetings and at appointments and it does not make mistakes on basic words."

Rania 🇦🇪
rania.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, Abu Dhabi

"University lectures in Egypt are in Arabic and they move fast. Captio AI gives me a live transcript so I can follow each lecture. The accuracy is good enough that I trust it for my studies."

Omar 🇪🇬
omar.f***@gmail.com
Deaf, Alexandria

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