Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Bulgarian conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Bulgarian and major regional 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 Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian speakers. Captio AI turns their speech into real-time captions, so the conversation can happen naturally on both sides.

💼Meetings

In Bulgarian 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

Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian 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

Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian-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 Bulgarian-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 Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian 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

Bulgarian dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Bulgarian and major regional varieties.

Balkanski dialect

The Central Balkan dialect group — spoken in north-central Bulgaria and across Bulgarian Thrace. The basis for Standard Bulgarian (Книжовен български). The most widely spoken and understood Bulgarian dialect group. Captio AI handles Balkanski dialect with full accuracy.

Moeziski dialect

The Moesian (Northern) dialect group — spoken along the Danube plain in cities like Pleven, Lovech, and Ruse. Has distinct features from the Balkan standard, including treatment of certain Old Bulgarian vowels. Captio AI handles Moeziski dialect accurately.

Rupski dialect

The Rup dialect group — spoken in the Rhodope mountains and across southern Bulgaria toward the Greek border. The most archaic Bulgarian dialect group, preserving features of Old Bulgarian not found in the standard. Includes the distinct Rhodopean sub-varieties (Smolyan, Hvoyna). Captio AI handles educated Rupski speech accurately.

Yugozapadni dialect

The Southwestern dialect group — spoken in Sofia, Vidin, Kyustendil, and across western Bulgaria into North Macedonia. Part of the Western Bulgarian dialect zone, separated from Eastern dialects by the historical yat isogloss. Captio AI handles Yugozapadni dialect accurately.

Severozapadni dialect

The Northwestern dialect group — spoken in Montana, Vratsa, and Vidin along the Serbian and Romanian borders. Has distinct phonological features from both the Sofia Southwestern and the Eastern standard. Captio AI handles Severozapadni dialect accurately in everyday conversational speech.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian speakers

Български жестов език (BZhE)

Bulgaria officially recognized Bulgarian Sign Language on January 21, 2021, in a unanimous vote by all parliamentary groups. From January 1, 2023, every public institution at national and local level is required to provide deaf people with access through Bulgarian Sign Language. Free sign language interpreter services are guaranteed under the law.

Despite the strong legal framework, practical implementation is still catching up. Bulgaria's deaf community, organized through the Union of the Deaf in Bulgaria, continues to push for consistent enforcement in healthcare, courts, and workplaces.

For hard of hearing Bulgarian speakers, medical and government appointments are the situations where Captio AI is most used. Bulgarian medical consultations move quickly. Captio AI provides a way to follow spoken Bulgarian in real time in the gap between what the law requires and what is available in practice.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My team in Sofia speaks fast Bulgarian. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens. I use it in every meeting."

Elena 🇧🇬
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Hard of hearing, Sofia

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

Georgi 🇧🇬
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Deaf, Plovdiv

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

Mila 🇧🇬
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Progressive hearing loss, Sofia

"Doctor appointments in Bulgaria move fast. Captio AI shows me everything in real time. I place it on the desk at every appointment."

Ivan 🇧🇬
ivan.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Varna

"Captio AI is accurate enough for Bulgarian that I use it in any situation where I need to follow speech."

Kristina 🇧🇬
kristina.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Burgas

"I use Captio AI at my workplace in Sofia. No interpreter is available for every meeting. Captio AI gives me a way to follow."

Dimitar 🇧🇬
dimitar.n***@gmail.com
Deaf, Sofia

"My team in Sofia speaks fast Bulgarian. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens. I use it in every meeting."

Elena 🇧🇬
elena.d***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Sofia

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

Georgi 🇧🇬
georgi.p***@gmail.com
Deaf, Plovdiv

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

Mila 🇧🇬
mila.s***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Sofia

"Doctor appointments in Bulgaria move fast. Captio AI shows me everything in real time. I place it on the desk at every appointment."

Ivan 🇧🇬
ivan.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Varna

"Captio AI is accurate enough for Bulgarian that I use it in any situation where I need to follow speech."

Kristina 🇧🇬
kristina.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Burgas

"I use Captio AI at my workplace in Sofia. No interpreter is available for every meeting. Captio AI gives me a way to follow."

Dimitar 🇧🇬
dimitar.n***@gmail.com
Deaf, Sofia

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