Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Turkish conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Turkish and regional accents across Turkey and the diaspora.

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Captio AI app showing live captions in Turkish
Use Cases

Works in every situation

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

💬Everyday Conversations

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

💼Meetings

In Turkish 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

Turkish 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 Turkish 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 Turkish 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

Turkish 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 Turkish 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 Turkish-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 Turkish-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 Turkish 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 Turkish 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

Turkish dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Turkish and regional accents across Turkey and the diaspora.

İstanbul dialect

Standard Turkish (Türkiye Türkçesi) based on the Istanbul variety — used in national broadcasting, education, and official communication. The prestige form and the most widely understood variety. Captio AI handles İstanbul Turkish with full accuracy.

Batı Anadolu dialect

West Anatolian Turkish — spoken across the Aegean and Marmara regions, including Izmir, Bursa, and Antalya. Known for a melodic intonation shaped by centuries of Greek-Turkish contact. Captio AI handles Batı Anadolu Turkish accurately.

Doğu Anadolu dialect

East Anatolian Turkish — spoken east of the Euphrates, including Erzurum, Malatya, and Diyarbakır. Has distinct phonological features influenced by Kurdish, Arabic, and Persian contact. Captio AI handles Doğu Anadolu Turkish accurately in conversational speech.

Karadeniz dialect

Black Sea Turkish — spoken along the northeastern coast from Trabzon to Rize and inland. One of the most distinct Turkish regional varieties, with unique intonation and vocabulary. Captio AI handles educated Karadeniz speech accurately.

Rumeli dialect

Balkan Turkish — spoken by communities in Greece (Western Thrace), Bulgaria, and North Macedonia, and by Turkish families with Balkan ancestry across Turkey. Has distinct vocabulary and some phonological features from Anatolian Turkish. Captio AI handles Rumeli Turkish accurately in standard conversational form.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Turkish 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 Turkish 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 Turkish speakers

Türk İşaret Dili (TİD)

Turkey's deaf community uses Türk İşaret Dili (TİD), which has one of the longest documented histories of any sign language in the world. Its origins trace back to the Ottoman court in the 14th century, where a sophisticated signing system developed. TİD was formally recognized as a language in 2006, with over 200,000 signers.

Despite this long history, TİD was suppressed during the 19th and 20th centuries. Oralist policies dominated Turkish deaf education for generations, meaning many older deaf Turkish people grew up without formal sign language education. The 2006 recognition marked a turning point, though practical access to interpreters and captioning in public settings remains uneven.

Media accessibility for deaf people in Turkey is still limited despite TİD's official status. TV captioning and sign language interpretation at formal events exist but are inconsistent. For hard of hearing Turkish speakers, medical appointments and government consultations typically have no accommodation available. Captio AI provides a way to follow spoken Turkish in real time.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My office in Istanbul has fast meetings in Turkish. I put Captio AI on the table and follow everything. My colleagues know I use it."

Mehmet 🇹🇷
mehmet.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Istanbul

"TİD is my language but most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow conversations in Turkish without needing anyone to adapt."

Ayşe 🇹🇷
ayse.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ankara

"My hearing has been declining for two years. I use Captio AI for every appointment in Izmir. Turkish medical vocabulary is handled accurately."

Emre 🇹🇷
emre.y***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Izmir

"I use Captio AI in meetings and at the doctor in Bursa. Turkish at normal speed is handled well. I do not miss important information the way I used to."

Zeynep 🇹🇷
zeynep.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bursa

"Captio AI is the most accurate Turkish captioning app I have found. I use it for phone calls, meetings, and appointments."

Can 🇹🇷
can.o***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Istanbul

"I live in Berlin but Turkish is my home language. Captio AI captions Turkish conversations at family gatherings. It handles the pace and accent without any issues."

Selin 🇩🇪
selin.t***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, German-Turkish, Berlin

"My office in Istanbul has fast meetings in Turkish. I put Captio AI on the table and follow everything. My colleagues know I use it."

Mehmet 🇹🇷
mehmet.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Istanbul

"TİD is my language but most hearing people do not sign. Captio AI gives me a way to follow conversations in Turkish without needing anyone to adapt."

Ayşe 🇹🇷
ayse.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ankara

"My hearing has been declining for two years. I use Captio AI for every appointment in Izmir. Turkish medical vocabulary is handled accurately."

Emre 🇹🇷
emre.y***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Izmir

"I use Captio AI in meetings and at the doctor in Bursa. Turkish at normal speed is handled well. I do not miss important information the way I used to."

Zeynep 🇹🇷
zeynep.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bursa

"Captio AI is the most accurate Turkish captioning app I have found. I use it for phone calls, meetings, and appointments."

Can 🇹🇷
can.o***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Istanbul

"I live in Berlin but Turkish is my home language. Captio AI captions Turkish conversations at family gatherings. It handles the pace and accent without any issues."

Selin 🇩🇪
selin.t***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, German-Turkish, Berlin

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