Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Punjabi conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Eastern Punjabi (India) and Western Punjabi (Pakistan).

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Captio AI app showing live captions in Punjabi
Use Cases

Works in every situation

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

💬Everyday Conversations

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

💼Meetings

In Punjabi 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

Punjabi 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 Punjabi 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 Punjabi 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

Punjabi 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 Punjabi 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 Punjabi-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 Punjabi-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 Punjabi 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 Punjabi 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

Punjabi dialect & accent support

Supports Eastern Punjabi (India) and Western Punjabi (Pakistan).

Majhi dialect

ਮਾਝੀ — the prestige dialect spoken in the Lahore-Amritsar heartland of historic Punjab. The standard written form for both Indian and Pakistani Punjabi. Captio AI handles Majhi Punjabi with the highest accuracy, whether written in Gurmukhi (India) or Shahmukhi (Pakistan).

Doabi dialect

ਦੋਆਬੀ — spoken in the Doaba region between the Beas and Sutlej rivers: Jalandhar, Nawanshahr, Kapurthala, and Hoshiarpur. Distinct vocabulary and intonation from Majhi. One of the most widely spoken Indian Punjabi dialects. Captio AI handles Doabi dialect accurately.

Malwi dialect

ਮਾਲਵੀ — spoken across eastern and southern Indian Punjab: Ludhiana, Patiala, Bathinda, Sangrur, and Faridkot. The largest Punjabi dialect area by geographic coverage in India. Has a distinct intonation from both Majhi and Doabi. Captio AI handles Malwi dialect accurately.

Powadhi dialect

ਪੁਆਧੀ — a transitional variety spoken in the southeastern Punjab foothills (Ambala, Ropar, Morinda) where Punjabi meets Hindi. Has features of both languages. Captio AI handles Powadhi-accented Punjabi accurately in conversational speech.

Jhangvi dialect

Western Punjabi — spoken in Jhang, Sargodha, and central Pakistani Punjab. A transitional variety between core Majhi Punjabi and the Lahnda varieties further west. Captio AI handles Jhangvi dialect accurately alongside Standard Punjabi.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Punjabi 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 Punjabi 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 Punjabi speakers

Indian Sign Language (ISL)Pakistani Sign Language (PSL)

Punjabi is spoken on both sides of the India-Pakistan border. The deaf communities in both use varieties of Indo-Pakistani Sign Language (IPSL), one of the most widely used sign language families in the world with an estimated 15 million signers across South Asia. In Indian Punjab, the deaf community uses ISL. In Pakistani Punjab, PSL is used. The two are related but distinct.

In Indian Punjab, only 24 schools for the deaf exist across 23 districts, and 8 of those districts have no school at all. Researchers at Punjabi University in Patiala developed one of India's first regional-language speech-to-ISL conversion systems specifically for Punjabi speakers. But trained interpreters remain scarce in formal settings.

For hard of hearing Punjabi speakers, medical and government appointments in Amritsar, Ludhiana, or Lahore typically have no sign language accommodation. The large Punjabi diaspora in the UK, particularly in Birmingham and London, uses Captio AI to follow conversations at community gatherings and family events.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My office in Amritsar has meetings in Punjabi and Hindi. Captio AI handles both. I use it every day."

Gurpreet 🇮🇳
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Hard of hearing, Amritsar

"I grew up in Birmingham and Punjabi is my home language. Captio AI follows Punjabi-English code-switching accurately. I use it at community events."

Harpreet 🇬🇧
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Hard of hearing, Birmingham

"No interpreter is available at my hospital in Ludhiana. Captio AI gives me a transcript of the consultation in Punjabi."

Manpreet 🇮🇳
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Deaf, Ludhiana

"My workplace in Lahore has meetings in Punjabi and Urdu. Captio AI handles both in the same session. I use it every day at work."

Imran 🇵🇰
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Hard of hearing, Lahore

"I live in Vancouver and Punjabi is my first language. Captio AI accurately captions Punjabi conversations at the pace people actually speak."

Simran 🇨🇦
simran.g***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Vancouver

"My hearing started declining last year. I use Captio AI in Chandigarh for any situation where I need to follow spoken Punjabi."

Kuldeep 🇮🇳
kuldeep.b***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Chandigarh

"My office in Amritsar has meetings in Punjabi and Hindi. Captio AI handles both. I use it every day."

Gurpreet 🇮🇳
gurpreet.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Amritsar

"I grew up in Birmingham and Punjabi is my home language. Captio AI follows Punjabi-English code-switching accurately. I use it at community events."

Harpreet 🇬🇧
harpreet.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Birmingham

"No interpreter is available at my hospital in Ludhiana. Captio AI gives me a transcript of the consultation in Punjabi."

Manpreet 🇮🇳
manpreet.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ludhiana

"My workplace in Lahore has meetings in Punjabi and Urdu. Captio AI handles both in the same session. I use it every day at work."

Imran 🇵🇰
imran.c***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Lahore

"I live in Vancouver and Punjabi is my first language. Captio AI accurately captions Punjabi conversations at the pace people actually speak."

Simran 🇨🇦
simran.g***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Vancouver

"My hearing started declining last year. I use Captio AI in Chandigarh for any situation where I need to follow spoken Punjabi."

Kuldeep 🇮🇳
kuldeep.b***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Chandigarh

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