Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Croatian conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Croatian and major dialect groups.

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

💼Meetings

In Croatian 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

Croatian 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 Croatian 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 Croatian 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

Croatian 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 Croatian 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 Croatian-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 Croatian-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 Croatian 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 Croatian 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

Croatian dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Croatian and major dialect groups.

Štokavski dialect

Štokavian — named for the word 'što' (what). The basis for Standard Croatian (Ijekavian Štokavian) and the most widely spoken Croatian dialect group, covering Slavonia, central Croatia, and most of Dalmatia. Also the base for Serbian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin. Captio AI handles Štokavski with full accuracy.

Kajkavski dialect

Kajkavian — named for the word 'kaj' (what). Spoken in Zagreb, Zagorje, Međimurje, and northern Croatia. Has a distinct pitch accent and features resembling Slovenian. Zagreb speakers often switch between Kajkavski and Standard Croatian. Captio AI handles educated Kajkavski speech accurately.

Čakavski dialect

Čakavian — named for the word 'ča' (what). Spoken along the Adriatic coast, Croatian islands, and Istria. Has the most archaic vocabulary of the three Croatian dialect groups, preserving medieval Croatian features. Captio AI handles Čakavski accurately in everyday conversational speech.

Dalmatinski dialect

Dalmatian Štokavian — spoken in Split, Dubrovnik, and across coastal Dalmatia. A Štokavian variety with a distinct coastal accent and Venetian Italian loanwords from centuries of Adriatic trade. Captio AI handles Dalmatinski dialect accurately.

Slavonski dialect

Slavonian — spoken in eastern Croatia (Osijek, Slavonski Brod, Vinkovci). A Štokavian variety with Pannonian features and Hungarian/German influence from the region's Habsburg history. Captio AI handles Slavonski dialect accurately.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Croatian 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 Croatian 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 Croatian speakers

Hrvatski znakovni jezik (HZJ)

Croatia's deaf community uses Croatian Sign Language (Hrvatski znakovni jezik, HZJ), with around 6,500 native signers. The Croatian Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing reports over 12,000 registered members and supports approximately 80,000 deaf and hard of hearing people nationwide. The country has only 60 working sign language interpreters.

With 80,000 people needing support and only 60 interpreters available, the gap is significant. Access to HZJ courses is limited outside larger cities, and there is a shortage of standardized learning materials. Moja Prva Znakovnica, the first video dictionary of Croatian Sign Language, was developed as a resource particularly for hearing parents of deaf children.

For hard of hearing Croatian speakers, medical appointments, legal proceedings, and workplace meetings are where the interpreter shortage is felt most directly. Captio AI provides a way to follow spoken Croatian in real time without depending on an interpreter being available.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My team in Zagreb speaks fast Croatian. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens."

Ana 🇭🇷
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Hard of hearing, Zagreb

"Croatia has only 60 sign language interpreters. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Croatian when no interpreter is available."

Luka 🇭🇷
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Deaf, Split

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

Maja 🇭🇷
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Progressive hearing loss, Zagreb

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

Tomislav 🇭🇷
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Hard of hearing, Rijeka

"Captio AI handles Croatian at normal conversational speed accurately. I use it at work and at appointments."

Ivana 🇭🇷
ivana.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Dubrovnik

"I speak Croatian in Bosnia. Captio AI handles the Ijekavian variety accurately. I use it every day."

Ante 🇧🇦
ante.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bosnia

"My team in Zagreb speaks fast Croatian. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens."

Ana 🇭🇷
ana.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Zagreb

"Croatia has only 60 sign language interpreters. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Croatian when no interpreter is available."

Luka 🇭🇷
luka.m***@gmail.com
Deaf, Split

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

Maja 🇭🇷
maja.k***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Zagreb

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

Tomislav 🇭🇷
tomislav.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Rijeka

"Captio AI handles Croatian at normal conversational speed accurately. I use it at work and at appointments."

Ivana 🇭🇷
ivana.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Dubrovnik

"I speak Croatian in Bosnia. Captio AI handles the Ijekavian variety accurately. I use it every day."

Ante 🇧🇦
ante.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bosnia

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