Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Swedish conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Swedish, Finland Swedish, and regional varieties.

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

💼Meetings

In Swedish 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

Swedish 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 Swedish 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 Swedish 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

Swedish 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 Swedish 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 Swedish-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 Swedish-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 Swedish 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 Swedish 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

Swedish dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Swedish, Finland Swedish, and regional varieties.

Svealändska dialect

Central Swedish — spoken in Stockholm, Uppsala, and across Svealand. The basis for Rikssvenska (Standard Swedish) used in national broadcasting and formal communication. Captio AI handles Svealändska with full accuracy.

Göteborgska dialect

Gothenburg Swedish — spoken in Gothenburg and across western Götaland. One of Sweden's most recognizable regional accents, with a distinctive rising sing-song intonation that sets it apart from Stockholm Swedish. Captio AI handles Göteborgska accurately.

Skånska dialect

South Swedish — spoken across Skåne (Scania) in the southernmost region of Sweden. The variety closest to Danish, with uvular consonants replacing the retroflex sounds of Standard Swedish. Captio AI handles educated Skånska speech well; very heavy dialect features may occasionally reduce accuracy.

Norrländska dialect

Northern Swedish — spoken across the vast Norrland region (Dalarna, Västernorrland, Ångermanland, Västerbotten, Norrbotten). Has a distinct pitch-accent and preserves some archaic Old Norse vocabulary. Captio AI handles Norrländska accurately in everyday conversational speech.

Finlandssvenska dialect

Finland Swedish — spoken by around 5% of Finland's population as an official language. Has a distinct intonation, slower pace, and some vocabulary differences from Swedish in Sweden. A practical accessibility language for deaf and hard of hearing Swedish-speaking Finns. Captio AI handles Finlandssvenska accurately.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Swedish 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 Swedish 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 Swedish speakers

Svenskt teckenspråk (SSL)

Sweden was one of the first countries in the world to officially recognize a sign language, granting Svenskt teckenspråk (SSL) formal recognition in 1981. Around 13,000 people are native SSL signers, with 30,000 total users. The state provides hearing parents of deaf children 240 free hours of SSL classes. Finnish Sign Language descends directly from Swedish Sign Language, spread to Finland during the era of Swedish administration.

Swedish television carries sign language interpretation and subtitles. SSL can be studied as a third national language in secondary school, and both deaf and hearing people can use it to fulfill university language requirements. By international standards, Sweden's formal accessibility framework for deaf people is among the most developed.

Despite this strong formal system, research highlights ongoing tensions in how interpretation services work in practice — particularly in healthcare, where interpreter availability does not always align with medical appointment schedules. Captio AI is used in the gap between the formal system and the situations that arise without advance notice.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My team in Stockholm speaks fast Swedish. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens. Nobody minds."

Maja 🇸🇪
maja.l***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Stockholm

"SSL is my language but most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Swedish in meetings and at appointments."

Erik 🇸🇪
erik.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Gothenburg

"My hearing started declining three years ago. I use Captio AI in Malmö for work meetings and medical appointments."

Anna 🇸🇪
anna.h***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Malmö

"Doctor appointments in Sweden move fast even with a good healthcare system. Captio AI shows me everything in real time."

Lars 🇸🇪
lars.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Uppsala

"Captio AI handles Swedish at normal conversational speed accurately. I use it every day."

Linnea 🇸🇪
linnea.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Stockholm

"I work in a Stockholm tech company. Captio AI gives me a way to follow meetings even when no interpreter is available."

Johan 🇸🇪
johan.n***@gmail.com
Deaf, Stockholm

"My team in Stockholm speaks fast Swedish. I put Captio AI on the table and read everything as it happens. Nobody minds."

Maja 🇸🇪
maja.l***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Stockholm

"SSL is my language but most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Swedish in meetings and at appointments."

Erik 🇸🇪
erik.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Gothenburg

"My hearing started declining three years ago. I use Captio AI in Malmö for work meetings and medical appointments."

Anna 🇸🇪
anna.h***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Malmö

"Doctor appointments in Sweden move fast even with a good healthcare system. Captio AI shows me everything in real time."

Lars 🇸🇪
lars.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Uppsala

"Captio AI handles Swedish at normal conversational speed accurately. I use it every day."

Linnea 🇸🇪
linnea.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Stockholm

"I work in a Stockholm tech company. Captio AI gives me a way to follow meetings even when no interpreter is available."

Johan 🇸🇪
johan.n***@gmail.com
Deaf, Stockholm

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