Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Indonesian conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), Jakartanese colloquial, and regional varieties.

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Captio AI app showing live captions in Indonesian
Use Cases

Works in every situation

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

💬Everyday Conversations

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

💼Meetings

In Indonesian 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

Indonesian 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 Indonesian 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 Indonesian 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

Indonesian 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 Indonesian 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 Indonesian-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 Indonesian-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 Indonesian 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 Indonesian 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

Indonesian dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), Jakartanese colloquial, and regional varieties.

Standard Indonesian dialect

The official national language (Bahasa Indonesia) used in education, government, and media. Based on Riau Malay. Captio AI handles Standard Indonesian with full accuracy.

Betawi dialect

The colloquial Jakarta variety, widely understood across Indonesia through TV and social media. Distinct from formal Indonesian with unique slang and shortened forms. Captio AI handles Betawi Indonesian accurately.

Javanese Indonesian dialect

Java has the majority of Indonesia's population — Javanese speakers' Indonesian has a distinct accent and Javanese vocabulary borrowings. Captio AI handles Javanese-accented Indonesian accurately.

Sundanese Indonesian dialect

Spoken in West Java — Indonesian influenced by the Sundanese language with distinct phonetic patterns. Sundanese is the second most spoken native language in Indonesia. Captio AI handles Sundanese-accented Indonesian accurately.

Minangkabau dialect

Spoken in West Sumatra — Indonesian influenced by the Minangkabau language, known for its matrilineal culture and distinct vocabulary. Captio AI handles Minangkabau-accented Indonesian accurately.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Indonesian 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 Indonesian 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 Indonesian speakers

BISINDO (Bahasa Isyarat Indonesia)SIBI (Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia)

Indonesia has two sign language systems in active use. BISINDO (Bahasa Isyarat Indonesia) developed naturally within the deaf community. SIBI (Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia) was created by the government in 1994 and is more closely modeled on the grammar of spoken Indonesian. They are different systems and are not fully compatible with each other.

Community surveys suggest around 91% of deaf Indonesians prefer BISINDO for everyday communication, as it is the language that developed organically among deaf people. But many government-funded schools teach SIBI. This means deaf students are frequently being educated in a sign system that does not match how their own community communicates, creating a persistent gap between school and daily life.

Indonesia spans more than 17,000 islands and has over 700 distinct regional languages. Accessibility infrastructure for hard of hearing people is uneven across this geography. Sign language interpretation in hospitals is rare across the country. Captio AI provides a way to follow spoken Indonesian in real time, regardless of which island or region you are in.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"Meetings in Jakarta move fast and people mix Indonesian with English constantly. Captio AI handles both and captions everything in real time. I use it every day at my office."

Rina 🇮🇩
rina.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Jakarta

"I am at university in Surabaya. My lecturers speak Bahasa Indonesia and the captions appear word by word as they talk. It is accurate enough for me to take my own notes."

Budi 🇮🇩
budi.p***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Surabaya

"I was not sure Captio AI would handle Sundanese-accented Indonesian but it does well. I live in Bandung and the accent here is distinct. For everyday conversation it is accurate and fast."

Sari 🇮🇩
sari.w***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bandung

"My hearing started going two years ago. I use Captio AI at the doctor in Medan and for work meetings. It follows Indonesian at normal conversational speed."

Ahmad 🇮🇩
ahmad.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Medan

"I use Captio AI in my work conversations which are always in Indonesian. Even when people speak with Balinese accents the captions are accurate. Very useful in meetings and appointments."

Dewi 🇮🇩
dewi.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bali

"I live in Makassar and I was surprised how well Captio AI handles Indonesian spoken with a local accent. Not perfect but good enough to follow a conversation. I use it every day."

Rizky 🇮🇩
rizky.f***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Makassar

"Meetings in Jakarta move fast and people mix Indonesian with English constantly. Captio AI handles both and captions everything in real time. I use it every day at my office."

Rina 🇮🇩
rina.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Jakarta

"I am at university in Surabaya. My lecturers speak Bahasa Indonesia and the captions appear word by word as they talk. It is accurate enough for me to take my own notes."

Budi 🇮🇩
budi.p***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Surabaya

"I was not sure Captio AI would handle Sundanese-accented Indonesian but it does well. I live in Bandung and the accent here is distinct. For everyday conversation it is accurate and fast."

Sari 🇮🇩
sari.w***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bandung

"My hearing started going two years ago. I use Captio AI at the doctor in Medan and for work meetings. It follows Indonesian at normal conversational speed."

Ahmad 🇮🇩
ahmad.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Medan

"I use Captio AI in my work conversations which are always in Indonesian. Even when people speak with Balinese accents the captions are accurate. Very useful in meetings and appointments."

Dewi 🇮🇩
dewi.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bali

"I live in Makassar and I was surprised how well Captio AI handles Indonesian spoken with a local accent. Not perfect but good enough to follow a conversation. I use it every day."

Rizky 🇮🇩
rizky.f***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Makassar

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