Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Kannada conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Kannada and regional varieties across Karnataka.

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Captio AI app showing live captions in Kannada
Use Cases

Works in every situation

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

💬Everyday Conversations

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

💼Meetings

In Kannada 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

Kannada 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 Kannada 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 Kannada 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

Kannada 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 Kannada 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 Kannada-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 Kannada-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 Kannada 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 Kannada 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

Kannada dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Kannada and regional varieties across Karnataka.

Mysuru dialect

Southern Karnataka Kannada — spoken in Mysuru, Mandya, and the surrounding region. Considered the closest to Standard Kannada and the basis for the formal literary variety used in education and media. Captio AI handles Mysuru dialect with full accuracy.

Bangalore dialect

Urban Karnataka Kannada — spoken in Bengaluru, heavily mixed with English and Hindi due to the city's tech industry and multilingual population. The most widely heard Kannada variety in media. Captio AI handles Bangalore Kannada and Kannada-English code-switching accurately.

Dharwad dialect

Northern Karnataka Kannada — spoken in Hubli-Dharwad, Gadag, and Belagavi. Has distinct phonetic features and vocabulary influenced by Marathi due to geographic proximity. One of the four major Kannada dialect groups. Captio AI handles Dharwad dialect accurately.

Mangalorean dialect

Coastal Karnataka Kannada — spoken in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, and Uttara Kannada. Influenced by Tulu and Konkani, with a distinct coastal intonation. Includes the Havyaka sub-variety spoken by Havyaka Brahmins, which preserves archaic Kannada vocabulary from over 1,000 years ago. Captio AI handles Mangalorean dialect accurately.

Gulbarga dialect

Northeastern Karnataka Kannada — spoken in Kalaburagi (Gulbarga), Bidar, and Yadgir. Has distinct vocabulary influenced by Urdu, Telugu, and Marathi due to the region's geographic position. Captio AI handles Gulbarga dialect accurately in conversational speech.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Kannada 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 Kannada 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 Kannada speakers

Indian Sign Language (ISL)

Karnataka's deaf and hard of hearing community uses Indian Sign Language (ISL) with regional Kannada-variety signs. Karnataka has around 3.3 million people with disabilities, including an estimated 300,000 children in the deaf and hard of hearing category. Researchers at universities in Bangalore are developing machine learning systems to translate Kannada sign language gestures to text and speech — part of a growing effort to address the state's accessibility gap.

Sign language interpreter access in hospitals, courts, and government offices in Karnataka is limited, as it is across most of India. Outside Bangalore, Mysuru, and Hubli, access to ISL education and training is particularly thin.

Bangalore's tech industry culture means Kannada is heavily mixed with English in professional settings. For hard of hearing people working in the city's offices, following fast Kannada-English conversations in meetings is one of the most common situations where Captio AI is used.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My office in Bangalore has meetings in Kannada and English. Captio AI captions both. I use it every day."

Kavya 🇮🇳
kavya.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bangalore

"I use Captio AI at my hospital in Mysuru. Kannada medical consultations move fast. Captio AI gives me a transcript of every appointment."

Rajan 🇮🇳
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Deaf, Mysuru

"I work in tech in Bangalore where Kannada is mixed with English constantly. Captio AI handles both in the same caption without me doing anything."

Priya 🇮🇳
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Hard of hearing, Bangalore

"My hearing started declining last year. I use Captio AI in Hubli for work meetings and doctor appointments. Northern Karnataka Kannada is handled accurately."

Suresh 🇮🇳
suresh.h***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Hubli

"I was not sure Captio AI would handle Mangalorean Kannada but it works well for everyday conversation. I use it at work and at appointments."

Asha 🇮🇳
asha.d***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Mangalore

"I use Captio AI at my university in Bangalore. Lectures are in Kannada and English and Captio AI captions both in real time."

Kiran 🇮🇳
kiran.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Bangalore

"My office in Bangalore has meetings in Kannada and English. Captio AI captions both. I use it every day."

Kavya 🇮🇳
kavya.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bangalore

"I use Captio AI at my hospital in Mysuru. Kannada medical consultations move fast. Captio AI gives me a transcript of every appointment."

Rajan 🇮🇳
rajan.n***@gmail.com
Deaf, Mysuru

"I work in tech in Bangalore where Kannada is mixed with English constantly. Captio AI handles both in the same caption without me doing anything."

Priya 🇮🇳
priya.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bangalore

"My hearing started declining last year. I use Captio AI in Hubli for work meetings and doctor appointments. Northern Karnataka Kannada is handled accurately."

Suresh 🇮🇳
suresh.h***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Hubli

"I was not sure Captio AI would handle Mangalorean Kannada but it works well for everyday conversation. I use it at work and at appointments."

Asha 🇮🇳
asha.d***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Mangalore

"I use Captio AI at my university in Bangalore. Lectures are in Kannada and English and Captio AI captions both in real time."

Kiran 🇮🇳
kiran.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Bangalore

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