Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

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

💼Meetings

In Finnish 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

Finnish 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 Finnish 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 Finnish 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

Finnish 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 Finnish 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 Finnish-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 Finnish-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 Finnish 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 Finnish 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

Finnish dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Finnish and major regional varieties.

Savolaismurteet dialect

Savonian — the most widely distributed Finnish dialect group, spoken across the Savo region, North Karelia, and much of eastern Finland. Known for distinctive vowel lengthening and intonation. Shares common ancestry with Karelian. Captio AI handles Savolaismurteet accurately.

Lounaissuomalaiset dialect

Southwestern Finnish — spoken in Turku and Satakunta. Has distinct vowel reduction and short forms not found in Standard Finnish or Eastern dialects. The most conservative western Finnish variety. Captio AI handles Lounaissuomalaiset dialect accurately.

Hämäläismurteet dialect

Tavastian — spoken in the Häme region (Tampere, Hämeenlinna, Lahti). The transitional dialect zone between Western and Eastern Finnish varieties. One of the largest Finnish dialect areas by population. Captio AI handles Hämäläismurteet accurately.

Pohjalaiset dialect

Ostrobothnian — spoken along the western coast from Vaasa to Seinäjoki and Kokkola. Has a distinct intonation and Swedish loanwords from the historically bilingual coastal region. Captio AI handles Pohjalaiset dialect accurately in conversational speech.

Peräpohjalaiset dialect

Far Northern Finnish — spoken in Lapland, Oulu, and the northernmost regions. Has distinct features influenced by Sami and Swedish from centuries of contact. The most geographically isolated Finnish dialect group. Captio AI handles educated Peräpohjalaiset speech accurately.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Finnish 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 Finnish 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 Finnish speakers

Suomalainen viittomakieli (FinSL)Finland-Swedish Sign Language (FSSL)

Finland was the third country in the world to officially recognize a sign language as a mother tongue, granting Finnish Sign Language (FinSL) formal recognition in 1995. The Constitution of Finland guarantees the rights of sign language users. Finland also has Finland-Swedish Sign Language, used by around 300 people from the Swedish-speaking minority community.

FinSL's roots are connected to Swedish Sign Language through Finland's historical period of Swedish administration. Hearing parents of deaf children can access state-funded sign language training. The University of Jyväskylä and Humak University of Applied Sciences offer degree programmes to train sign language interpreters.

For hard of hearing Finnish speakers, the healthcare and formal settings are reasonably well-supported compared to many countries, but interpreter availability can be inconsistent outside Helsinki, Tampere, and Turku. Captio AI is used in the situations where formal support was not arranged in advance.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

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

Aino 🇫🇮
aino.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Helsinki

"FinSL is my language but most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Finnish in any situation."

Mikko 🇫🇮
mikko.l***@gmail.com
Deaf, Tampere

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

Elina 🇫🇮
elina.v***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Helsinki

"Doctor appointments in Finland are fast even with a good healthcare system. Captio AI shows me everything in real time."

Juhani 🇫🇮
juhani.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Oulu

"Captio AI handles spoken Finnish at normal conversational speed accurately. I use it every day."

Liisa 🇫🇮
liisa.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Turku

"I work in a Helsinki company. Captio AI gives me a way to follow meetings even when no interpreter is available."

Petri 🇫🇮
petri.h***@gmail.com
Deaf, Helsinki

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

Aino 🇫🇮
aino.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Helsinki

"FinSL is my language but most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Finnish in any situation."

Mikko 🇫🇮
mikko.l***@gmail.com
Deaf, Tampere

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

Elina 🇫🇮
elina.v***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Helsinki

"Doctor appointments in Finland are fast even with a good healthcare system. Captio AI shows me everything in real time."

Juhani 🇫🇮
juhani.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Oulu

"Captio AI handles spoken Finnish at normal conversational speed accurately. I use it every day."

Liisa 🇫🇮
liisa.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Turku

"I work in a Helsinki company. Captio AI gives me a way to follow meetings even when no interpreter is available."

Petri 🇫🇮
petri.h***@gmail.com
Deaf, Helsinki

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