Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Ukrainian conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Ukrainian and major 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 Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian speakers. Captio AI turns their speech into real-time captions, so the conversation can happen naturally on both sides.

💼Meetings

In Ukrainian 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

Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian 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

Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian-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 Ukrainian-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 Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian 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

Ukrainian dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Ukrainian and major regional varieties.

Kyivska dialect

Southeastern Ukrainian — the Kyiv variety that forms the basis of Standard Ukrainian (Українська літературна мова). Used in national media, education, and official communication. Captio AI handles Kyivska dialect with full accuracy.

Halytska dialect

Galician Ukrainian — spoken in Lviv, Ternopil, and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts. The most distinct western variety, with Polish and German vocabulary from centuries of Austro-Hungarian rule. Considered very close to the literary standard and free of Russian influence. Captio AI handles Halytska dialect accurately.

Poliska dialect

Northern (Polissian) Ukrainian — spoken across the marshy Polissia region of northern Ukraine (Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, Rivne oblasts). Preserves archaic features lost from other Ukrainian dialects. Captio AI handles Poliska dialect accurately in conversational speech.

Hutsulska dialect

Carpathian Ukrainian — spoken by the Hutsul people of the Carpathian mountains (Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia oblasts). One of the most distinctive southwestern dialects with archaic vocabulary and a strong regional identity. Captio AI handles educated Hutsulska speech accurately.

Surzhyk dialect

A Ukrainian-Russian mixed vernacular spoken informally across Central and Eastern Ukraine — not a geographic dialect but a code-mixed register used in everyday life. Captio AI handles Standard Ukrainian most reliably; heavy Surzhyk with dense Russian elements may have reduced accuracy.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian speakers

Ukrainian Sign Language (Українська жестова мова / USL)

Ukraine's deaf community uses Ukrainian Sign Language (USL), which was legally recognized in 2004 and reinforced by legislation in 2019. Since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, the Ukrainian deaf community has been actively de-Russifying their sign language, replacing gestures borrowed from Russian Sign Language with distinctly Ukrainian signs as part of a broader effort to strengthen the language's independence.

The war created an acute accessibility crisis. An estimated 38,000 deaf people in Ukraine before the invasion relied solely on text alerts during air raids, as they cannot hear sirens. The Ukraine Society of the Deaf worked throughout the conflict to maintain healthcare access and interpreter services for the community.

For hard of hearing Ukrainian speakers inside Ukraine and among the large diaspora now in Poland, Germany, and other European countries, Captio AI provides a way to follow spoken Ukrainian in real time — in hospitals, refugee support services, and the daily situations where formal interpretation is not available.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My team works remotely and we use Ukrainian for all meetings. Captio AI captions every speaker as they talk. I use it every day."

Olena 🇺🇦
olena.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Kyiv

"USL is my language. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Ukrainian when I am in situations where no interpreter is available."

Andriy 🇺🇦
andriy.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Lviv

"I moved to Warsaw from Ukraine. I use Captio AI for both Ukrainian and Polish depending on the situation. It handles both accurately."

Natalia 🇵🇱
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Hard of hearing, Warsaw

"My hearing started declining before the war. I use Captio AI in Kharkiv for any appointment or meeting where I need to follow spoken Ukrainian."

Viktor 🇺🇦
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Progressive hearing loss, Kharkiv

"I live in Berlin after leaving Ukraine. Captio AI helps me follow Ukrainian on calls with family and in community meetings."

Iryna 🇩🇪
iryna.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Berlin

"Captio AI is accurate for Ukrainian and I use it at work and at appointments."

Bohdan 🇺🇦
bohdan.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Odessa

"My team works remotely and we use Ukrainian for all meetings. Captio AI captions every speaker as they talk. I use it every day."

Olena 🇺🇦
olena.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Kyiv

"USL is my language. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Ukrainian when I am in situations where no interpreter is available."

Andriy 🇺🇦
andriy.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Lviv

"I moved to Warsaw from Ukraine. I use Captio AI for both Ukrainian and Polish depending on the situation. It handles both accurately."

Natalia 🇵🇱
natalia.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Warsaw

"My hearing started declining before the war. I use Captio AI in Kharkiv for any appointment or meeting where I need to follow spoken Ukrainian."

Viktor 🇺🇦
viktor.m***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Kharkiv

"I live in Berlin after leaving Ukraine. Captio AI helps me follow Ukrainian on calls with family and in community meetings."

Iryna 🇩🇪
iryna.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Berlin

"Captio AI is accurate for Ukrainian and I use it at work and at appointments."

Bohdan 🇺🇦
bohdan.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Odessa

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