Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Slovak conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Slovak and regional varieties across Slovakia.

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

💼Meetings

In Slovak 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

Slovak 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 Slovak 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 Slovak 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

Slovak 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 Slovak 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 Slovak-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 Slovak-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 Slovak 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 Slovak 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

Slovak dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Slovak and regional varieties across Slovakia.

Stredoslovenský dialect

Central Slovak — spoken in Banská Bystrica, Žilina, Liptov, Orava, and Turiec. The basis for Standard Slovak (Spisovná slovenčina). Captio AI handles Stredoslovenský dialect with full accuracy.

Západoslovenský dialect

Western Slovak — spoken in Bratislava, Nitra, Trenčín, and Trnava. Has Czech influence from the former Czechoslovak era and geographic proximity. The dialect of Slovakia's capital. Forms a gradual continuum with Moravian Czech across the border. Captio AI handles Západoslovenský dialect accurately.

Šarišský dialect

Eastern Slovak, Šariš sub-group — spoken in Prešov and Bardejov. One of the most widely spoken Eastern varieties, notably different from Central Slovak in phonology and vocabulary. Has Polish and Rusyn influence. Captio AI handles Šarišský dialect accurately.

Spišský dialect

Eastern Slovak, Spiš sub-group — spoken in Poprad, Spišská Nová Ves, and Kežmarok in the High Tatra foothills. Has German influence from centuries of Carpathian German settlement in the region. Captio AI handles Spišský dialect accurately.

Zemplínsky dialect

Eastern Slovak, Zemplín sub-group — spoken in Michalovce and near the Ukrainian border. The most easterly Slovak dialect group, with the strongest influence from Rusyn and Ukrainian. Not fully mutually intelligible with speakers from western Slovakia. Captio AI handles educated Zemplínsky speech accurately.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Slovak 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 Slovak 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 Slovak speakers

Slovenský posunkový jazyk (SPJ)

Slovak Sign Language (Slovenský posunkový jazyk, SPJ) was legally recognized in 1995 and belongs to the French sign language family. The deaf community faces a specific institutional challenge: the body that previously issued certification for SPJ interpreters stopped doing so, meaning the interpreter network has not grown in years and remains small.

Public broadcaster RTVS provides the highest number of subtitled programmes in Slovakia, but only two programmes are broadcast in SPJ. This leaves deaf Slovaks with very limited signed media access. Trnava University opened a Slovak Sign Language communication degree programme in 2020, which should help build the interpreter pipeline over time.

For hard of hearing Slovak speakers, hospitals and government offices have limited interpreter provision. Captio AI provides a way to follow spoken Slovak in real time in the meantime.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My team in Bratislava speaks fast Slovak. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens."

Jana 🇸🇰
jana.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bratislava

"SPJ interpreters are scarce and the certification system has stalled. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Slovak in formal settings."

Martin 🇸🇰
martin.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Košice

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

Zuzana 🇸🇰
zuzana.v***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Bratislava

"Doctor appointments in Slovakia move fast. Captio AI shows me everything in real time."

Marek 🇸🇰
marek.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Prešov

"Captio AI handles Eastern Slovak from Prešov and the central varieties accurately. I use it every day."

Lucia 🇸🇰
lucia.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Banská Bystrica

"I use Captio AI at work in Bratislava. No interpreter is available for most meetings. Captio AI gives me a way to follow."

Peter 🇸🇰
peter.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Bratislava

"My team in Bratislava speaks fast Slovak. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens."

Jana 🇸🇰
jana.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bratislava

"SPJ interpreters are scarce and the certification system has stalled. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Slovak in formal settings."

Martin 🇸🇰
martin.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Košice

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

Zuzana 🇸🇰
zuzana.v***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Bratislava

"Doctor appointments in Slovakia move fast. Captio AI shows me everything in real time."

Marek 🇸🇰
marek.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Prešov

"Captio AI handles Eastern Slovak from Prešov and the central varieties accurately. I use it every day."

Lucia 🇸🇰
lucia.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Banská Bystrica

"I use Captio AI at work in Bratislava. No interpreter is available for most meetings. Captio AI gives me a way to follow."

Peter 🇸🇰
peter.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Bratislava

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