Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Romanian conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Romanian and Moldovan Romanian.

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

💼Meetings

In Romanian 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

Romanian 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 Romanian 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 Romanian 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

Romanian 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 Romanian 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 Romanian-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 Romanian-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 Romanian 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 Romanian 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

Romanian dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Romanian and Moldovan Romanian.

Muntenian dialect

Wallachian Romanian — spoken in Bucharest and across Muntenia and Oltenia in southern Romania. The basis for Standard Romanian due to Bucharest's historic prestige. Has smooth vowel reductions and the most widely understood accent. Captio AI handles Muntenian dialect with full accuracy.

Moldovean dialect

Spoken in northeastern Romania (Moldova region) and the Republic of Moldova. Has distinct vowel features, some archaic vocabulary, and Ukrainian influence along the border areas. Linguistically identical to Romanian despite the official Moldovan designation. Captio AI handles Moldovean dialect accurately.

Ardelenesc dialect

Transylvanian Romanian — spoken across Transylvania in western Romania. Has a distinct accent with Hungarian and German vocabulary borrowings from centuries of contact. Often considered the clearest Romanian accent. Captio AI handles Ardelenesc dialect accurately.

Bănățean dialect

Banat Romanian — spoken in the southwestern Banat region bordering Serbia and Hungary. Has features influenced by Serbian, Hungarian, and German. One of the four classical Romanian dialect groups. Captio AI handles Bănățean dialect accurately.

Oltenesc dialect

Oltenian Romanian — spoken in western Wallachia (Craiova, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Drobeta-Turnu Severin). Has a distinct intonation and some archaic vocabulary compared to Muntenian. Captio AI handles Oltenesc dialect accurately in everyday conversational speech.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Romanian 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 Romanian 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 Romanian speakers

Limba semnelor română (LSR)

Romania's deaf community uses Romanian Sign Language (Limba semnelor română, LSR), officially recognized by Law 27/2020. The deaf population is estimated at 20,000 to 30,000 people. LSR has regional variation across three main areas: Transylvania in the northwest, Moldavia in the northeast, and Wallachia in the south.

Healthcare accessibility for deaf people in Romania is limited. Interpreter access in hospitals and formal settings is uncommon. Technology projects have been developed to address this gap, including an e-health application and the Voice for Hands app, but practical coverage across the country remains thin.

For hard of hearing Romanian speakers, medical consultations are the most commonly cited situation where Captio AI is used. Romanian is also spoken in Moldova and by large diaspora communities in Italy, Spain, and Germany. Captio AI captions spoken Romanian in real time across all these contexts.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My team in Bucharest speaks fast Romanian. Captio AI captions every speaker as they talk. I use it in every meeting."

Maria 🇷🇴
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Hard of hearing, Bucharest

"I use Captio AI at my hospital in Cluj. Doctors speak quickly and Captio AI gives me a transcript of the consultation."

Andrei 🇷🇴
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Deaf, Cluj-Napoca

"My hearing started declining two years ago. I use Captio AI in Timișoara for work meetings and doctor appointments."

Elena 🇷🇴
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Progressive hearing loss, Timișoara

"I work at a university in Iași. Lectures move fast and Captio AI gives me a live transcript so I can follow."

Mihai 🇷🇴
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Hard of hearing, Iași

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

Cristina 🇷🇴
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Hard of hearing since childhood, Bucharest

"I use Captio AI at work in Brașov. Meetings are in Romanian and move fast. Captio AI gives me a way to follow."

Radu 🇷🇴
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Deaf, Brașov

"My team in Bucharest speaks fast Romanian. Captio AI captions every speaker as they talk. I use it in every meeting."

Maria 🇷🇴
maria.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bucharest

"I use Captio AI at my hospital in Cluj. Doctors speak quickly and Captio AI gives me a transcript of the consultation."

Andrei 🇷🇴
andrei.m***@gmail.com
Deaf, Cluj-Napoca

"My hearing started declining two years ago. I use Captio AI in Timișoara for work meetings and doctor appointments."

Elena 🇷🇴
elena.s***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Timișoara

"I work at a university in Iași. Lectures move fast and Captio AI gives me a live transcript so I can follow."

Mihai 🇷🇴
mihai.d***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Iași

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

Cristina 🇷🇴
cristina.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Bucharest

"I use Captio AI at work in Brașov. Meetings are in Romanian and move fast. Captio AI gives me a way to follow."

Radu 🇷🇴
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Deaf, Brașov

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