Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Marathi conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Marathi and major regional varieties across Maharashtra.

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

💼Meetings

In Marathi 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

Marathi 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 Marathi 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 Marathi 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

Marathi 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 Marathi 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 Marathi-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 Marathi-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 Marathi 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 Marathi 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

Marathi dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Marathi and major regional varieties across Maharashtra.

Deshi dialect

The central Maharashtra variety spoken across Pune and the Deccan plateau — the basis for Standard Marathi as used in education, media, and formal communication. Captio AI handles Deshi Standard Marathi with full accuracy.

Varhadi dialect

Spoken in the Vidarbha region — Nagpur, Amravati, and Wardha. Also called Nagpuri Marathi. Has distinct vocabulary and intonation from Pune Standard Marathi, with some Hindi influence from geographic proximity. Captio AI handles Varhadi dialect accurately in everyday conversational speech.

Khandeshi dialect

Spoken in the Khandesh region along the Tapti river — Dhule, Jalgaon, and Nandurbar districts. Has distinct vocabulary influenced by Gujarati and Hindi due to geographic proximity. Captio AI handles educated Khandeshi speech accurately.

Malvani dialect

Spoken along the southern Konkan coast — Sindhudurg and Ratnagiri. A distinct coastal variety that blends Marathi with Konkani features, with its own pronouns and vocabulary. Captio AI handles Malvani-accented Marathi accurately alongside the Pune standard.

Mumbai Marathi dialect

The fast-paced urban variety spoken across Mumbai — heavily mixed with Hindi, Urdu, and English. Captio AI handles Mumbai Marathi and Marathi-Hindi-English 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 Marathi 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 Marathi 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 Marathi speakers

Indian Sign Language (ISL)

Marathi is spoken by around 83 million people, primarily in Maharashtra. The deaf community in the state uses Indian Sign Language (ISL), with some regional Marathi signed varieties alongside it. Maharashtra was the first Indian state to establish a dedicated Sign Language Cell for the deaf community, giving it a slightly stronger formal base than most other Indian states.

In practice, the same large accessibility gap that affects the broader Indian deaf community applies in Maharashtra. Trained ISL interpreters are scarce outside Mumbai. Deaf schools exist in major cities but coverage across rural Maharashtra is thin. Many deaf and hard of hearing Marathi speakers navigate formal situations without interpretation support.

Mumbai's fast-paced professional culture, mixed with Hindi and English in everyday speech, makes workplaces and appointments particularly difficult for hard of hearing people to follow. Captio AI handles the Marathi-Hindi-English code-switching common in the city and captions spoken Marathi in real time.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"In Mumbai everyone speaks Marathi mixed with Hindi and English. Captio AI handles all three in the same caption. I use it at my office every day."

Priya 🇮🇳
priya.j***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Mumbai

"I study in Pune and Captio AI gives me a live transcript of my Marathi lectures. I do not fall behind the way I used to."

Rohan 🇮🇳
rohan.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Pune

"My hearing started declining and my family speaks Vidarbha Marathi in Nagpur. Captio AI follows the accent well enough for everyday conversation."

Sunita 🇮🇳
sunita.p***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Nagpur

"Meetings in Mumbai happen fast and people talk over each other. Captio AI captions every speaker as they talk. I use it in every meeting."

Aditya 🇮🇳
aditya.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Mumbai

"I was not sure Captio AI would handle Marathi outside Pune but it works in Aurangabad at the hospital and at work."

Meera 🇮🇳
meera.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Aurangabad

"My doctor in Mumbai speaks quickly and does not slow down. I put Captio AI on the desk and it captions the whole consultation in Marathi."

Sanjay 🇮🇳
sanjay.b***@gmail.com
Deaf, Mumbai

"In Mumbai everyone speaks Marathi mixed with Hindi and English. Captio AI handles all three in the same caption. I use it at my office every day."

Priya 🇮🇳
priya.j***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Mumbai

"I study in Pune and Captio AI gives me a live transcript of my Marathi lectures. I do not fall behind the way I used to."

Rohan 🇮🇳
rohan.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Pune

"My hearing started declining and my family speaks Vidarbha Marathi in Nagpur. Captio AI follows the accent well enough for everyday conversation."

Sunita 🇮🇳
sunita.p***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Nagpur

"Meetings in Mumbai happen fast and people talk over each other. Captio AI captions every speaker as they talk. I use it in every meeting."

Aditya 🇮🇳
aditya.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Mumbai

"I was not sure Captio AI would handle Marathi outside Pune but it works in Aurangabad at the hospital and at work."

Meera 🇮🇳
meera.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Aurangabad

"My doctor in Mumbai speaks quickly and does not slow down. I put Captio AI on the desk and it captions the whole consultation in Marathi."

Sanjay 🇮🇳
sanjay.b***@gmail.com
Deaf, Mumbai

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