Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Hebrew conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Modern Israeli Hebrew and major accent varieties.

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Captio AI app showing live captions in Hebrew
Use Cases

Works in every situation

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

💬Everyday Conversations

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

💼Meetings

In Hebrew 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

Hebrew 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew 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

Hebrew 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew-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 Hebrew-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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew 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

Hebrew dialect & accent support

Supports Modern Israeli Hebrew and major accent varieties.

Israeli Hebrew dialect

Modern Israeli Hebrew (עברית ישראלית) — the standardized spoken language used in broadcasting, education, and official communication. An amalgam of Sephardic vowels and Ashkenazic consonant patterns, standardized in the 20th century. Captio AI handles Israeli Hebrew with full accuracy, displaying captions right-to-left in Hebrew script.

Mizrahi accent

Hebrew spoken by Mizrahi Jews (of Middle Eastern and North African origin) — preserves pharyngeal consonants (ח and ע as distinct sounds) lost in the general Israeli standard. One of the most common accent patterns in Israel. Captio AI handles Mizrahi-accented Hebrew accurately.

Ashkenazi accent

Hebrew spoken by Ashkenazi Jews (of Eastern European origin) — has a distinct vowel system influenced by Yiddish, including the Ashkenazic pronunciation of certain vowels. Modern Israeli Hebrew incorporated Ashkenazic consonant patterns at its foundation. Captio AI handles Ashkenazi-accented Hebrew accurately.

Teimani dialect

Yemenite Hebrew — the accent of Yemenite Jewish Israelis, considered by scholars the closest living pronunciation to Biblical Hebrew. Has a radically distinct vowel system and distinguishes between consonant pairs (like ב/ו and ס/ש) that are identical in all other Israeli accents. Captio AI handles educated Teimani speech accurately.

Russian-Israeli Hebrew dialect

Around one million Russian-speaking Israelis frequently mix Hebrew and Russian mid-sentence. Russian-accented Hebrew has distinct phonological features from native Israeli Hebrew. Captio AI handles Russian-Hebrew code-switching naturally in the caption stream.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Hebrew 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew speakers

שפת הסימנים הישראלית (ISL)

Israel's deaf community uses Israeli Sign Language (ISL). ISL is a relatively young language — around 80 years old — and is used by deaf people from Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and other language backgrounds. The community has an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 signers. In 2020, the Hebrew Language Academy established a dedicated unit to preserve and develop ISL, and the Knesset has been advancing legislation to formally recognize it as the first language of deaf people.

In 2023, an Israeli startup introduced AI-generated avatars capable of translating spoken Hebrew into real-time ISL for broadcasts and videos — one of the more advanced sign language technology projects globally. This reflects Israel's tech culture being applied to accessibility.

For hard of hearing Hebrew speakers, the Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law of 1998 mandates accessibility including sign language interpretation. Israel's healthcare system is well-organized but interpreter access in hospitals still requires advance arrangement. Captio AI is used in the situations where that advance arrangement was not made.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My team in Tel Aviv speaks fast Hebrew. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything in real time. The right-to-left Hebrew display works correctly."

Tamar 🇮🇱
tamar.c***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Tel Aviv

"ISL is my language but most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Hebrew in formal situations."

Ilan 🇮🇱
ilan.b***@gmail.com
Deaf, Jerusalem

"My hearing started declining last year. I use Captio AI in Tel Aviv for work meetings and medical appointments."

Noa 🇮🇱
noa.s***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Tel Aviv

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

Yossi 🇮🇱
yossi.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Haifa

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

Miriam 🇮🇱
miriam.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Tel Aviv

"I work in tech in Rehovot. Captio AI gives me a way to follow Hebrew meetings when no interpreter is available."

Ron 🇮🇱
ron.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Rehovot

"My team in Tel Aviv speaks fast Hebrew. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything in real time. The right-to-left Hebrew display works correctly."

Tamar 🇮🇱
tamar.c***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Tel Aviv

"ISL is my language but most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Hebrew in formal situations."

Ilan 🇮🇱
ilan.b***@gmail.com
Deaf, Jerusalem

"My hearing started declining last year. I use Captio AI in Tel Aviv for work meetings and medical appointments."

Noa 🇮🇱
noa.s***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Tel Aviv

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

Yossi 🇮🇱
yossi.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Haifa

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

Miriam 🇮🇱
miriam.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Tel Aviv

"I work in tech in Rehovot. Captio AI gives me a way to follow Hebrew meetings when no interpreter is available."

Ron 🇮🇱
ron.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Rehovot

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