Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Basque conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Basque (Batua) and major dialect varieties.

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Use Cases

Works in every situation

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

💬Everyday Conversations

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

💼Meetings

In Basque 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

Basque 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 Basque 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 Basque 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

Basque 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 Basque 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 Basque-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 Basque-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 Basque 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 Basque 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

Basque dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Basque (Batua) and major dialect varieties.

Gipuzkera dialect

Gipuzkoan — spoken in Donostia-San Sebastián and across Gipuzkoa. Considered the most prestigious dialect and the major influence on Euskara Batua (the unified standard developed in the 1960s). Captio AI handles Gipuzkera with full accuracy, including in its Batua-aligned standard form.

Bizkaiera dialect

Biscayan — spoken in Bilbao and across Bizkaia, the most widely spoken Basque dialect. The most distinct from Batua in vocabulary and phonology — sometimes described as the most divergent of the five major dialects. Captio AI handles educated Bizkaiera speech accurately.

Nafarrera Garaia dialect

Upper Navarrese — spoken in the northern part of the Navarre region where Basque has survived. A minority within a minority, with Basque retreating steadily from Navarre over centuries. Captio AI handles Nafarrera Garaia accurately in standard conversational form.

Lapurtera dialect

Lapurdian — spoken in the Labourd (Lapurdi) territory of the French Basque Country, centred on Bayonne (Baiona). A major dialect of the northern Basque Country with its own literary tradition. Captio AI handles Lapurtera accurately alongside the Batua standard.

Zuberera dialect

Souletin — spoken in the Soule (Xiberoa) territory in the French Basque Country. The most divergent of all Basque dialects, with unique phonological features including a vowel system and sibilant distinctions not found elsewhere in Basque. Captio AI handles educated Zuberera speech accurately; very heavy dialect features may occasionally reduce accuracy.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Basque 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 Basque 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 Basque speakers

Lengua de signos española (LSE)Basque regional variety

Deaf people in the Basque Country primarily use Spanish Sign Language (Lengua de signos española, LSE) with a distinct Basque regional variety. Euskal Gorrak — the Basque Federation of Deaf Associations — is the main community organization, comprising five associations: Arabako Gorrak (Araba-Álava), APSB (Basauri), El Botxo (Bilbao), ASG-GGE (Gipuzkoa), and Coorvisor (Bizkaia). The Basque variety of LSE is used in both Euskara and Castilian contexts, and discussions around incorporating it into more areas of public life are ongoing. The Basque variety is one of the most lexically distinctive regional variants within LSE.

LSE was recognized nationally through Spain's Law 27/2007, and the Centre for Linguistic Normalization of Spanish Sign Language (CNLSE), established in 2010, coordinates regional varieties. The use of sign language specifically in Euskara — integrating Basque vocabulary and cultural context — is an active area of development within the Basque deaf community.

For hard of hearing Basque speakers, the bilingual Basque-Spanish environment means conversations frequently switch between the two languages. Captio AI handles Basque-Spanish code-switching naturally, displaying both Basque and Spanish correctly in the same caption stream, and supports Batua (Standard Basque) alongside the major regional dialects.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My team switches between Basque and Spanish. Captio AI handles both in the same caption stream. I use it every day."

Ane 🇪🇸
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Hard of hearing, Donostia-San Sebastián

"LSE interpreters are not always available. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Basque in any situation."

Jokin 🇪🇸
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Deaf, Bilbao

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

Amaia 🇪🇸
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Progressive hearing loss, Vitoria-Gasteiz

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

Mikel 🇪🇸
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Hard of hearing, Pamplona

"I live in the French Basque Country. Captio AI handles Basque and French code-switching accurately."

Leire 🇫🇷
leire.e***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bayonne

"My team switches between Basque and Spanish. Captio AI handles both in the same caption stream. I use it every day."

Ane 🇪🇸
ane.e***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Donostia-San Sebastián

"LSE interpreters are not always available. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Basque in any situation."

Jokin 🇪🇸
jokin.m***@gmail.com
Deaf, Bilbao

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

Amaia 🇪🇸
amaia.u***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Vitoria-Gasteiz

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

Mikel 🇪🇸
mikel.g***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Pamplona

"I live in the French Basque Country. Captio AI handles Basque and French code-switching accurately."

Leire 🇫🇷
leire.e***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bayonne

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