Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Tagalog conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Filipino/Tagalog and Taglish code-switching.

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Captio AI app showing live captions in Tagalog
Use Cases

Works in every situation

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

💬Everyday Conversations

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

💼Meetings

In Tagalog 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

Tagalog 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 Tagalog 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 Tagalog 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

Tagalog 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 Tagalog 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 Tagalog-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 Tagalog-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 Tagalog 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 Tagalog 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

Tagalog dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Filipino/Tagalog and Taglish code-switching.

Manila dialect

Central Tagalog — spoken in Metro Manila and the basis for Standard Filipino used in education, national media, and official communication. The most widely understood variety across the Philippines. Captio AI handles Manila dialect with full accuracy.

Batangas dialect

Southern Tagalog — spoken in Batangas, Cavite, and adjoining parts of Laguna and Quezon. Notably preserves archaic elements of Old Tagalog and Proto-Malayo-Polynesian grammar not found in the Manila standard, including retained dependent verb forms. Has a strong accent distinct from Manila Tagalog. Captio AI handles Batangas dialect accurately.

Bulacan dialect

Northern Tagalog — spoken in Bulacan and the northern Luzon areas. The exemplar of the Northern Tagalog dialect group. Has distinct intonation and some vocabulary differences from Manila Tagalog. Captio AI handles Bulacan dialect accurately.

Marinduque dialect

Island Tagalog — spoken on Marinduque island south of Luzon. One of the most conservative Tagalog varieties, preserving phonological features lost in mainland dialects. Captio AI handles educated Marinduque speech accurately; very heavy dialect features may occasionally reduce accuracy.

Taglish dialect

Tagalog-English code-switching — switching between Tagalog and English mid-sentence is the natural spoken norm for urban Filipinos. Captio AI handles Taglish naturally, displaying both languages correctly in the same caption stream.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Tagalog 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 Tagalog 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 Tagalog speakers

Filipino Sign Language (FSL)

The Philippines declared Filipino Sign Language (FSL) as the national sign language of the deaf through Republic Act 11106 in 2018. The law mandates FSL use in government transactions, public broadcast media, schools, and the legal system. Around 540,000 people use FSL in the Philippines, with nearly 1.8 million Filipinos reported to have hearing difficulties.

Despite the law, implementation is widely described as incomplete. The number of professionals trained in FSL remains scarce, leaving basic services inaccessible to many deaf Filipinos. The Philippine Federation of the Deaf has been active in pushing for real implementation, but the gap between the legislation and daily experience remains wide.

For hard of hearing Filipino speakers, the situations where Captio AI is most used reflect this gap: doctor appointments, workplace meetings, and government transactions where FSL interpretation is legally required but often unavailable. Tagalog is also spoken across large overseas Filipino communities in the Middle East, the US, and Europe, where accessibility infrastructure varies widely.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My office in Manila has fast meetings in Filipino and English. Captio AI captions both in the same stream. I use it every day."

Maria 🇵🇭
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Hard of hearing, Manila

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

Jose 🇵🇭
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Deaf, Cebu

"I work in Dubai and Filipino is my home language. Captio AI follows Tagalog and Taglish accurately. I use it at community gatherings."

Ana 🇦🇪
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Hard of hearing, Dubai

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

Rico 🇵🇭
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Progressive hearing loss, Davao

"I live in Riyadh and Filipino is my first language. Captio AI accurately captions Tagalog at the speed people actually speak."

Linda 🇸🇦
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Hard of hearing, Riyadh

"Captio AI is the most accurate Tagalog captioning app I have found. I use it every day."

Jojo 🇵🇭
jojo.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Manila

"My office in Manila has fast meetings in Filipino and English. Captio AI captions both in the same stream. I use it every day."

Maria 🇵🇭
maria.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Manila

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

Jose 🇵🇭
jose.r***@gmail.com
Deaf, Cebu

"I work in Dubai and Filipino is my home language. Captio AI follows Tagalog and Taglish accurately. I use it at community gatherings."

Ana 🇦🇪
ana.c***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Dubai

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

Rico 🇵🇭
rico.d***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Davao

"I live in Riyadh and Filipino is my first language. Captio AI accurately captions Tagalog at the speed people actually speak."

Linda 🇸🇦
linda.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Riyadh

"Captio AI is the most accurate Tagalog captioning app I have found. I use it every day."

Jojo 🇵🇭
jojo.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Manila

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