Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any English conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports American, British, Australian, Irish, Scottish, and Indian English accents.

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

💼Meetings

In English 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

English 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 English 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 English 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

English 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 English 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 English-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 English-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 English 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 English 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

English dialect & accent support

Supports American, British, Australian, Irish, Scottish, and Indian English accents.

American English dialect

Captio AI handles the full range of American accents — General American, Southern, New York, Boston, Midwestern, and more. The most common English variety in Captio AI usage.

British English dialect

Supports Received Pronunciation and a wide range of regional accents including Cockney, Scouse (Liverpool), Geordie (Newcastle), Yorkshire, Scottish, Welsh, and West Country.

Australian English dialect

Captio AI handles Australian English across Broad, General, and Cultivated varieties. Distinct vowel sounds and intonation from British and American English, fully supported.

Canadian English dialect

Combines features of American and British English with distinct vowel patterns — including the Canadian Vowel Shift — and unique vocabulary reflecting French-Canadian influence.

Indian English dialect

One of the most widely spoken English varieties globally. Captio AI handles the distinctive rhythm, intonation, and pronunciation patterns of Indian English speakers across all regions.

South African English dialect

Supports South African English across its main varieties, including Cape, Natal, and the broader SAE accent. One of the most phonologically distinctive English varieties worldwide.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your English 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 English 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 English speakers

American Sign Language (ASL)British Sign Language (BSL)AuslanNew Zealand Sign Language (NZSL)

English is spoken across the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and beyond, and each of those countries has its own distinct sign language. Deaf Americans use American Sign Language (ASL). Deaf British people use British Sign Language (BSL), with around 150,000 users in the UK. Australia has Auslan, New Zealand has NZSL. Despite the shared spoken language, none of these sign languages are mutually intelligible with each other.

The reason is historical. ASL does not descend from BSL. It was brought to the United States from France in the early 1800s by a French educator, and it comes from French Sign Language. BSL, Auslan, and NZSL evolved together through the British Empire and form their own family. A deaf person from New York and a deaf person from London cannot sign to each other without learning the other's language.

For hard of hearing English speakers, formal accessibility support exists in law across most English-speaking countries. The UK has BSL interpretation rights in medical settings. The US ADA requires reasonable accommodation. Australia's NDIS covers accessibility support. In practice, all of these systems require advance notice, and getting an interpreter or live captioning at short notice for an unplanned appointment is still genuinely difficult. Captio AI fills that gap.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"Most of my colleagues talk fast and cut each other off in meetings. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens. Nobody notices and I stop missing things."

Sarah 🇺🇸
sarah.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, New York

"I used to rely on note-takers at uni. Captio AI is faster and more accurate than any note-taker I've had. I point my phone at the lecturer and the captions appear word by word."

James 🇦🇺
james.l***@gmail.com
Deaf, Melbourne

"My hearing has been getting worse over the past three years. Captio AI made the difference at my GP appointments. I read what my doctor says instead of nodding and guessing."

Emma 🇬🇧
emma.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, London

"I can hear perfectly but I cannot process speech in noisy rooms. Captio AI solved a problem I did not know had a solution. I use it at restaurants, bars, anywhere loud."

Marcus 🇺🇸
marcus.t***@gmail.com
Auditory processing disorder, Chicago

"My job involves a lot of client calls. The audio quality is usually poor and the accents vary. Captio AI captions every call in real time and I have not missed an important detail in months."

Tom 🇨🇦
tom.w***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Toronto

"BSL is my first language but most people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow conversations with hearing people who do not know BSL."

Claire 🇬🇧
claire.b***@gmail.com
Deaf since childhood, Manchester

"Most of my colleagues talk fast and cut each other off in meetings. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens. Nobody notices and I stop missing things."

Sarah 🇺🇸
sarah.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, New York

"I used to rely on note-takers at uni. Captio AI is faster and more accurate than any note-taker I've had. I point my phone at the lecturer and the captions appear word by word."

James 🇦🇺
james.l***@gmail.com
Deaf, Melbourne

"My hearing has been getting worse over the past three years. Captio AI made the difference at my GP appointments. I read what my doctor says instead of nodding and guessing."

Emma 🇬🇧
emma.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, London

"I can hear perfectly but I cannot process speech in noisy rooms. Captio AI solved a problem I did not know had a solution. I use it at restaurants, bars, anywhere loud."

Marcus 🇺🇸
marcus.t***@gmail.com
Auditory processing disorder, Chicago

"My job involves a lot of client calls. The audio quality is usually poor and the accents vary. Captio AI captions every call in real time and I have not missed an important detail in months."

Tom 🇨🇦
tom.w***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Toronto

"BSL is my first language but most people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow conversations with hearing people who do not know BSL."

Claire 🇬🇧
claire.b***@gmail.com
Deaf since childhood, Manchester

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