Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Italian conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Italian and regional accents from North to South.

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

💼Meetings

In Italian 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

Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian 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

Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian-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 Italian-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 Italian 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 Italian 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

Italian dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Italian and regional accents from North to South.

Toscano dialect

Tuscan — the basis for Standard Italian (Italiano standard). Spoken in Florence, Siena, and across Tuscany. The Florentine variety became the national literary standard through Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Captio AI handles Standard Italian with full accuracy.

Romanesco dialect

Spoken in Rome and Central Lazio — one of Italy's most widely recognized regional varieties, with a distinct vowel system and expressive vocabulary. Captio AI handles Romanesco-accented Italian accurately.

Lombardo dialect

Spoken in Milan and across Lombardy — Italy's most economically influential region. Lombard-accented Italian has a distinct northern intonation and a clear, clipped consonant quality different from Central and Southern Italian. Captio AI handles Lombardo-accented Italian accurately.

Napoletano dialect

Spoken in Naples and across Campania and southern Italy — one of the most distinct regional Italian varieties, with its own rich literary and musical tradition. Neapolitan Italian has open vowels and a strongly distinct intonation. Captio AI handles Napoletano-accented Italian accurately.

Siciliano dialect

Spoken in Sicily — has a strong Sicilian phonological substratum with distinct vowel sounds and vocabulary influenced by Arabic, Norman French, and Spanish through Sicily's history. Captio AI handles Siciliano-accented Italian accurately in standard conversational form.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian speakers

Lingua dei Segni Italiana (LIS)

Italy's deaf community uses Lingua dei Segni Italiana (LIS), with between 60,000 and 100,000 users. LIS was formally recognized in Italian national law in 2021, after decades of advocacy. Its origins trace back to 1784, when an Italian educator brought French Sign Language to Italy as the foundation for what became LIS.

LIS varies noticeably across regions. Northern and southern Italian varieties have distinct vocabulary and signing styles, reflecting Italy's broader regional diversity. The national organization ENS (Ente Nazionale Sordi) has been the primary advocate for LIS recognition and accessibility rights for generations.

Italian healthcare and bureaucratic settings do not routinely provide LIS interpretation or captioning. For hard of hearing Italian speakers, following a specialist consultation, a legal appointment, or a fast-moving group conversation is where Captio AI is most used. Italian regional accents vary widely, and Captio AI handles speech across the full range.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"Meetings in Milan move fast. I put Captio AI on the table and follow everything in Italian. My colleagues know I use it."

Marco 🇮🇹
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Hard of hearing, Milan

"My doctor in Rome uses fast medical Italian. Captio AI shows me everything they say. I place it on the desk at every appointment."

Giulia 🇮🇹
giulia.m***@gmail.com
Deaf, Rome

"My hearing started declining two years ago. Neapolitan Italian is spoken with a strong accent. Captio AI handles it accurately for everyday conversation."

Alessandro 🇮🇹
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Progressive hearing loss, Naples

"My university lectures in Turin are in Standard Italian. Captio AI gives me a live transcript so I can follow every topic."

Francesca 🇮🇹
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Hard of hearing, Turin

"Captio AI is accurate enough for Italian that I use it in any situation where I need to follow speech."

Luca 🇮🇹
luca.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Bologna

"LIS is my first language but most people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow conversations in Italian when I need to."

Sara 🇮🇹
sara.p***@gmail.com
Deaf, Palermo

"Meetings in Milan move fast. I put Captio AI on the table and follow everything in Italian. My colleagues know I use it."

Marco 🇮🇹
marco.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Milan

"My doctor in Rome uses fast medical Italian. Captio AI shows me everything they say. I place it on the desk at every appointment."

Giulia 🇮🇹
giulia.m***@gmail.com
Deaf, Rome

"My hearing started declining two years ago. Neapolitan Italian is spoken with a strong accent. Captio AI handles it accurately for everyday conversation."

Alessandro 🇮🇹
alessandro.f***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Naples

"My university lectures in Turin are in Standard Italian. Captio AI gives me a live transcript so I can follow every topic."

Francesca 🇮🇹
francesca.c***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Turin

"Captio AI is accurate enough for Italian that I use it in any situation where I need to follow speech."

Luca 🇮🇹
luca.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Bologna

"LIS is my first language but most people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow conversations in Italian when I need to."

Sara 🇮🇹
sara.p***@gmail.com
Deaf, Palermo

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