Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Kazakh conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Kazakh and major regional varieties.

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Captio AI app showing live captions in Kazakh
Use Cases

Works in every situation

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

💬Everyday Conversations

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

💼Meetings

In Kazakh 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

Kazakh 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 Kazakh 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 Kazakh 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

Kazakh 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 Kazakh 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 Kazakh-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 Kazakh-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 Kazakh 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 Kazakh 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

Kazakh dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Kazakh and major regional varieties.

Orta Zhuz dialect

Middle Zhuz Kazakh — spoken in central and northeastern Kazakhstan (Karaganda, Pavlodar, East Kazakhstan). The basis for Standard Kazakh and the most widely spoken dialect group. Captio AI handles Orta Zhuz Kazakh with full accuracy.

Uly Zhuz dialect

Great Zhuz Kazakh — spoken in southern Kazakhstan and the Almaty region, extending into Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Has vocabulary influenced by Uzbek and Kyrgyz due to geographic proximity. Captio AI handles Uly Zhuz dialect accurately.

Kishi Zhuz dialect

Little Zhuz Kazakh — spoken in western Kazakhstan (Atyrau, Aktobe, Mangystau, West Kazakhstan). Has phonological features influenced by Tatar and Bashkir contact across the Ural River. Captio AI handles Kishi Zhuz dialect accurately.

Qytay Qazaq dialect

Chinese Kazakh — spoken by over one million Kazakhs in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang, China. Has distinct vocabulary influenced by Chinese and Uyghur from generations of separate development. Captio AI handles educated Qytay Qazaq speech accurately.

Kazakh-Russian code-switching

Russian remains widely used in Kazakhstan's cities, and educated Kazakhs frequently mix Kazakh with Russian mid-sentence. Captio AI handles this code-switching naturally, displaying both languages correctly in the same caption stream.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Kazakh 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 Kazakh 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 Kazakh speakers

Kazakh Sign Language (KZSL / Қазақ ымдау тілі)

Kazakhstan's deaf community uses Kazakh Sign Language (KZSL), with an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 users. As of 2025, Kazakhstan was actively preparing to officially recognize KZSL as a national language. A researcher at Eurasian National University is developing AI-powered tools to translate sign language into Kazakh — one of the first such systems for the language.

Access to sign language education is limited by Kazakhstan's vast geography — the country covers 2.7 million square kilometres. Deaf communities in rural areas can be far from educational resources and trained interpreters. A shortage of trained professionals affects formal settings across the country.

For hard of hearing Kazakh speakers, government offices, hospitals, and legal proceedings in Almaty, Astana, and Shymkent rarely have interpreter accommodation. Kazakh-Russian code-switching is common in urban professional settings, and Captio AI handles both languages in the same caption stream.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My office in Almaty has meetings in Kazakh and Russian. Captio AI handles both. I use it every day."

Asel 🇰🇿
asel.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Almaty

"Most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Kazakh at work and at appointments."

Nurlan 🇰🇿
nurlan.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Astana

"My hearing started declining last year. I use Captio AI in Shymkent for any appointment or meeting where I need to follow spoken Kazakh."

Dinara 🇰🇿
dinara.m***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Shymkent

"Doctor appointments in Almaty move fast. I place Captio AI on the desk and read the Kazakh as the doctor speaks."

Arman 🇰🇿
arman.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Almaty

"Captio AI is accurate for Kazakh and I use it at work every day."

Zarina 🇰🇿
zarina.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Karaganda

"I use Captio AI at university in Almaty. Lectures are in Kazakh and move fast. Captio AI gives me a live transcript."

Bekzat 🇰🇿
bekzat.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Almaty

"My office in Almaty has meetings in Kazakh and Russian. Captio AI handles both. I use it every day."

Asel 🇰🇿
asel.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Almaty

"Most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Kazakh at work and at appointments."

Nurlan 🇰🇿
nurlan.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Astana

"My hearing started declining last year. I use Captio AI in Shymkent for any appointment or meeting where I need to follow spoken Kazakh."

Dinara 🇰🇿
dinara.m***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Shymkent

"Doctor appointments in Almaty move fast. I place Captio AI on the desk and read the Kazakh as the doctor speaks."

Arman 🇰🇿
arman.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Almaty

"Captio AI is accurate for Kazakh and I use it at work every day."

Zarina 🇰🇿
zarina.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Karaganda

"I use Captio AI at university in Almaty. Lectures are in Kazakh and move fast. Captio AI gives me a live transcript."

Bekzat 🇰🇿
bekzat.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Almaty

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