Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Albanian live captions and productivity tool for conferences & events

For deaf and hard of hearing people.

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Use Cases

Every situation covered

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

🎤Keynotes and main stage talks

From a far seat in a keynote hall at the Palace of Congresses in Tirana or a venue in Pristina, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Albanian keynote from any seat.

🔬Academic and research conferences

At an academic conference — a research congress at a Tirana university or a scientific meeting in Pristina — presenters speak fast and mix in terminology. Captio AI captions in real time and transcribes for later review.

💼Industry and professional events

Industry events, technology summits, and business briefings in Tirana carry content that affects your work. Captio AI captions every speaker so you follow the panel and miss nothing.

📋Workshops and breakout sessions

In a workshop or breakout, several voices contribute in Albanian from around the table. Place Captio AI on the table and follow every contribution, including from the back of the room.

🤝Networking and informal sessions

The most useful conversations often happen over coffee breaks and at the conference dinner. Captio AI works in these noisy, informal settings the same way it does in the main hall.

🌍International and multilingual events

At an international conference, sessions switch between Albanian and English. Live Translator captions foreign-language talks in real time so you follow the full programme.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Albanian
92.3%

word accuracy

independent benchmark, 2025

< 200ms
you speak
captions

real-time captions

first word appears as you speak

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Why Captio AI

Built for the room where you cannot ask anyone to repeat

Live captions from any seat

Point the phone toward the nearest PA output or speaker. Captio AI captions whoever is presenting in real time — from the front row or the back of a large conference hall.

Works without venue infrastructure

No hearing loop, no captioning service, no advance booking required. Captio AI works independently via microphone — whether or not the venue has provided any accessibility infrastructure.

Covers what official captioning does not

Official captioning, where it exists, typically covers the main stage only. Q&A sessions, workshops, breakouts, and networking are usually left uncaptioned. Captio AI covers all of it.

Record and review after

Record any session and upload it to Audio Transcription for a full written record. Use AI Summary to extract key takeaways — useful for dense technical content you want to process at your own pace.

60+ languages

For international conferences, foreign-language keynotes, or multilingual panels. Live Translator captions and translates in real time across 60+ languages with no manual switching between speakers.

Works for networking too

The conversations in hallways and at lunch matter as much as the sessions. Captio AI works in any setting — informal, noisy, unstructured — the same way it works in the main hall.

Albanian

Why Albanian is hard to understand

Dental fricatives

  • The th and dh sounds with almost no visible movement
  • Albanian has the dental fricatives th (θ) and dh (ð), made with the tongue between the teeth and producing very little visible lip movement. These are common Albanian sounds that appear throughout academic vocabulary, so from a distant stage a deaf attendee misses exactly the sounds that carry a technical term.

Rhotic contrast

  • The single r and the trilled rr look identical
  • Albanian contrasts a flapped single r with a trilled rr, a distinction that changes the word but looks identical on the lips. In a keynote a deaf attendee cannot tell the two apart, so a whole set of terms collapses into one shape.

Gheg–Tosk divide

  • Northern and southern Albanian differ sharply
  • Standard Albanian is based on Tosk, but Gheg — spoken across northern Albania and Kosovo — has nasal and long vowels Tosk lacks, and treats several consonants differently. A deaf attendee calibrated to standard Tosk meets very different vowel shapes from a Gheg-speaking presenter on the panel.

The ë vowel and clusters

  • A neutral vowel that drops, and consonants that pile up
  • Albanian has the mid-central vowel ë, which is often dropped at the ends of words in Gheg, and it permits demanding consonant clusters. In fast podium speech the dropped ë and the compressed clusters leave a deaf attendee with little visual footing.

Albanian–English code-switching

  • Technical terms in another language mid-sentence
  • Albanian academic and professional speech drops English — and, from older generations, Italian — terms into Albanian sentences. A deaf attendee lip-reading Albanian meets a different phonology on the key vocabulary, then returns to Albanian, with no visual signal of the switch.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and professional access in Albania and Kosovo

Reliable data on the deaf and hard of hearing population of the Albanian-speaking world has historically been scarce — so much so that Albania's Ministry of Social Welfare had to commission the national and Finnish deaf associations to survey deaf adults in 2015 precisely because no dependable information existed on their access to information, education, and employment. Against a European backdrop in which around one in five people has some hearing loss, a substantial professional population across Albania and Kosovo lives and works under-supported.

Tirana and Pristina host a growing conference and events sector — the academic congresses of their universities, the technology and business summits at venues like the Palace of Congresses. These run on spoken Albanian delivered over PA systems, with English woven into technical sessions. Real-time Albanian captioning of keynotes, panels, and Q&A is essentially never provided, and where any accessibility exists it does not reach the breakouts and networking where professional value is built.

Captio AI closes that gap. Point the phone toward the PA and read every Albanian keynote and panel answer from any seat, record a dense session for the full transcript, and follow the conversations over a coffee break — so a deaf professional in Tirana or Pristina gets the same value from the same conference as everyone in the hall.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your 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 doctor's appointment or a job interview never ends up in a training dataset. Not ours. Not anyone else's.

100% PRIVATE

Private by default

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"Tirana tech talks drop English terms into Albanian on every point, delivered fast from a far stage. I caught fragments. Captio AI captioned both from my seat. I read the whole session and knew exactly what the launch meant for my team."

Arben H. 🇦🇱
arben.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Tirana — industry conference attendee

"The th and dh sounds and the single-versus-trilled r give me nothing on the lips. The keynote was fast. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Elira K. 🇦🇱
elira.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Tirana — academic researcher

"Kosovo Gheg and standard Tosk are very different on the lips, and the panel had both. Captio AI captioned every speaker and the audience questions. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Besnik R. 🇽🇰
besnik.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Pristina — panellist

"Networking over coffee is where the useful conversations happen, and it used to be the part I stepped back from. Captio AI captioned the informal chats at the reception so I could take part. That is where I met my first investor."

Teuta M. 🇦🇱
teuta.m***@gmail.com
Deaf, Tirana — startup founder

"Tirana tech talks drop English terms into Albanian on every point, delivered fast from a far stage. I caught fragments. Captio AI captioned both from my seat. I read the whole session and knew exactly what the launch meant for my team."

Arben H. 🇦🇱
arben.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Tirana — industry conference attendee

"The th and dh sounds and the single-versus-trilled r give me nothing on the lips. The keynote was fast. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Elira K. 🇦🇱
elira.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Tirana — academic researcher

"Kosovo Gheg and standard Tosk are very different on the lips, and the panel had both. Captio AI captioned every speaker and the audience questions. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Besnik R. 🇽🇰
besnik.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Pristina — panellist

"Networking over coffee is where the useful conversations happen, and it used to be the part I stepped back from. Captio AI captioned the informal chats at the reception so I could take part. That is where I met my first investor."

Teuta M. 🇦🇱
teuta.m***@gmail.com
Deaf, Tirana — startup founder

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every speaker in Albanian.

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