Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Russian conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Russian and regional varieties across Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia.

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

💼Meetings

In Russian 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

Russian 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 Russian 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 Russian 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

Russian 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 Russian 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 Russian-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 Russian-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 Russian 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 Russian 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

Russian dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Russian and regional varieties across Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia.

Central Russian dialect

The Moscow-based Central group — transitional between the Northern and Southern dialects and the basis for Standard Russian, used in national media, education, and official communication. Captio AI handles it with full accuracy.

Northern Russian dialect

Spoken in Arkhangelsk, Vologda, and Novgorod regions. Characterised by okanye — clear pronunciation of unstressed 'o' — which distinguishes it from the Moscow standard. Captio AI handles Northern Russian accurately.

Southern Russian dialect

Spoken in Rostov, Voronezh, Kursk, and across southern Russia. Characterised by akanye — pronouncing unstressed 'o' as 'a' — and a distinct intonation. Captio AI handles Southern Russian accurately.

Siberian Russian dialect

Spoken across Siberia and the Russian Far East — a secondary-formation dialect region settled from European Russia, with a predominantly Northern okanye base and mixed features. Captio AI handles Siberian Russian accurately.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Russian 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 Russian 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 Russian speakers

Russian Sign Language (RSL)

Russia's deaf community uses Russian Sign Language (RSL), which received legal recognition in 2012. The All-Russian Society of the Deaf (VOG) is one of the oldest deaf organizations in the world, with over 100 regional branches and around 500,000 members. RSL developed independently within Russia's deaf community with its own grammar and lexicon.

Legal recognition has not fully translated into practical access. Deaf people in Russia report ongoing difficulty accessing healthcare, emergency services, and public transit with sign language support. RSL interpreters in hospitals are uncommon, and the gap between what the law guarantees and what is available in practice is wide, particularly outside Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Russian medical consultations tend to be fast and dense with information. For hard of hearing people who do not sign, following a specialist appointment or understanding a treatment plan without support is a common challenge. Captio AI is used in these situations as a practical way to follow spoken Russian in real time, when no other support is in place.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"Medical appointments in Russia are fast and doctors use a lot of clinical vocabulary. Captio AI shows me the consultation in Russian in real time. I leave knowing exactly what was said."

Anna 🇷🇺
anna.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Moscow

"RSL is my language but in formal situations most people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow meetings and appointments without having to arrange an interpreter each time."

Dmitri 🇷🇺
dmitri.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, St. Petersburg

"Russian is my working language in Almaty. Captio AI handles Russian as spoken in Kazakhstan well. I use it for work meetings and the accuracy is good enough for important conversations."

Elena 🇰🇿
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Hard of hearing, Almaty

"My hearing has been getting worse over five years. Captio AI made the biggest difference at work. Russian meetings move quickly and the app keeps up."

Sergei 🇷🇺
sergei.p***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Novosibirsk

"I work in an office in Minsk where we speak Russian. Captio AI follows fast conversational Russian accurately. Nobody at work even knows I use it."

Natasha 🇧🇾
natasha.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Minsk

"Captio AI is the most accurate Russian captioning tool I have found. I use it at university lectures and the transcript is close enough that I can study from it."

Ivan 🇷🇺
ivan.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, Yekaterinburg

"Medical appointments in Russia are fast and doctors use a lot of clinical vocabulary. Captio AI shows me the consultation in Russian in real time. I leave knowing exactly what was said."

Anna 🇷🇺
anna.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Moscow

"RSL is my language but in formal situations most people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow meetings and appointments without having to arrange an interpreter each time."

Dmitri 🇷🇺
dmitri.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, St. Petersburg

"Russian is my working language in Almaty. Captio AI handles Russian as spoken in Kazakhstan well. I use it for work meetings and the accuracy is good enough for important conversations."

Elena 🇰🇿
elena.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Almaty

"My hearing has been getting worse over five years. Captio AI made the biggest difference at work. Russian meetings move quickly and the app keeps up."

Sergei 🇷🇺
sergei.p***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Novosibirsk

"I work in an office in Minsk where we speak Russian. Captio AI follows fast conversational Russian accurately. Nobody at work even knows I use it."

Natasha 🇧🇾
natasha.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Minsk

"Captio AI is the most accurate Russian captioning tool I have found. I use it at university lectures and the transcript is close enough that I can study from it."

Ivan 🇷🇺
ivan.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, Yekaterinburg

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