Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Dutch conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Dutch, Flemish Belgian Dutch, and regional varieties.

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Captio AI app showing live captions in Dutch
Use Cases

Works in every situation

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

💬Everyday Conversations

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

💼Meetings

In Dutch 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

Dutch 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 Dutch 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 Dutch 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

Dutch 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 Dutch 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 Dutch-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 Dutch-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 Dutch 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 Dutch 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

Dutch dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Dutch, Flemish Belgian Dutch, and regional varieties.

Hollands dialect

The Hollandic variety spoken in the Randstad (Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, Rotterdam) — the most widely spoken Dutch dialect and the primary basis for Standard Dutch (Standaardnederlands). Captio AI handles Hollands dialect with full accuracy.

Brabants dialect

Spoken in North Brabant (Netherlands) and Antwerp (Belgium) — the most widely spoken Dutch dialect after Hollandic, with around 5 million speakers. Has a softer, more melodic quality than Hollands and is considered very accessible to most Dutch speakers. Captio AI handles Brabants dialect accurately.

West-Vlaams dialect

West Flemish — spoken in West Flanders (Belgium), the most conservative Dutch dialect and the one that has diverged most from Standard Dutch. Preserves features of Middle Dutch not found elsewhere. Often difficult for Dutch speakers from the Netherlands to understand. Captio AI handles educated West Flemish speech accurately.

Limburgs dialect

Spoken in Limburg (both Dutch and Belgian) — often classified as a separate language due to its tonal system, where pitch distinguishes word meaning. Has distinct phonology and vocabulary from Standard Dutch. Captio AI handles educated Limburgish speech accurately; very heavy dialect features may reduce accuracy.

Nedersaksisch dialect

Dutch Low Saxon — spoken across the northeastern Netherlands (Groningen, Drenthe, Overijssel, Gelderland). Closely related to Low German and distinct from the Low Franconian varieties of Standard Dutch. Captio AI handles educated Nedersaksisch speech accurately.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Dutch 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 Dutch 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 Dutch speakers

Nederlandse Gebarentaal (NGT)Vlaamse Gebarentaal (VGT)

The Netherlands and Flanders (Dutch-speaking Belgium) both speak Dutch, but their deaf communities use different sign languages. Nederlandse Gebarentaal (NGT) became an official language of the Netherlands on March 16, 2021, alongside Dutch and Frisian. Flanders uses Vlaamse Gebarentaal (VGT). Despite the shared spoken language, NGT and VGT are not mutually intelligible.

Both NGT and VGT descend from Old French Sign Language through 18th-century educational contact, but have diverged significantly over 200 years. The Netherlands had 640 registered sign language interpreters as of 2020, making it relatively well-served for interpreter access compared to many European countries.

For hard of hearing Dutch speakers, healthcare in the Netherlands is relatively organized but interpreter access in hospitals still requires advance arrangement. Unplanned appointments, urgent situations, or short-notice needs are where Captio AI is most used — providing a way to follow spoken Dutch in real time when formal support wasn't arranged in advance.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My team in Amsterdam speaks fast Dutch. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens. Nobody minds."

Emma 🇳🇱
emma.d***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Amsterdam

"NGT is my language but most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Dutch in meetings and at appointments."

Jan 🇳🇱
jan.v***@gmail.com
Deaf, Rotterdam

"I work in Antwerp in Flemish Dutch. Captio AI handles it accurately. I use it for meetings and at my GP."

Sophie 🇧🇪
sophie.d***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Antwerp

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

Lars 🇳🇱
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Progressive hearing loss, Utrecht

"Captio AI handles Belgian Dutch correctly. I use it in Ghent at work and at any appointment where I need to follow spoken Dutch."

Ines 🇧🇪
ines.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Ghent

"I work in a tech company in Eindhoven. Meetings mix Dutch and English constantly. Captio AI handles both in the same caption."

Thomas 🇳🇱
thomas.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Eindhoven

"My team in Amsterdam speaks fast Dutch. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens. Nobody minds."

Emma 🇳🇱
emma.d***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Amsterdam

"NGT is my language but most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Dutch in meetings and at appointments."

Jan 🇳🇱
jan.v***@gmail.com
Deaf, Rotterdam

"I work in Antwerp in Flemish Dutch. Captio AI handles it accurately. I use it for meetings and at my GP."

Sophie 🇧🇪
sophie.d***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Antwerp

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

Lars 🇳🇱
lars.b***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Utrecht

"Captio AI handles Belgian Dutch correctly. I use it in Ghent at work and at any appointment where I need to follow spoken Dutch."

Ines 🇧🇪
ines.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Ghent

"I work in a tech company in Eindhoven. Meetings mix Dutch and English constantly. Captio AI handles both in the same caption."

Thomas 🇳🇱
thomas.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Eindhoven

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