Arabic live captions and productivity tool for conferences & events
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Arabic conferences & events
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Arabic speakers.
Follow every speaker from any seat
- Point toward the PA or nearest speaker output
- Handles keynotes, panels, and Q&A sessions
- Works in large halls, seminar rooms, and outdoor venues
- No hearing loop or venue infrastructure required
International and multilingual conferences
- Speakers present in any language — you read in yours
- 60+ languages, no switching between sessions
- For global conferences, international panels, and foreign keynotes
- Translates in real time as each speaker talks
Full transcript of any session
- Record any talk or session and get the complete written transcript
- Review content you missed or want to study after the event
- Organised by speaker
- Searchable, copyable, shareable
Key takeaways from any session
- Main points and insights extracted from any session transcript
- Useful for dense technical talks and keynotes
- Organised into clear sections
- Works on any saved conference recording
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Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
From a far seat in a keynote hall in Dubai, Riyadh, or Cairo, the speaker is distant and the Arabic is formal and fast. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the keynote from any seat.
At an academic conference — a research congress at a Gulf university or a scientific meeting in Amman — presenters speak in dense Modern Standard Arabic. Captio AI captions in real time and transcribes for later review.
Industry events, summits, and product launches across the Gulf carry content that affects your work. Captio AI captions every speaker so you follow the panel and miss nothing professionally relevant.
In a workshop or breakout, several voices contribute in Arabic from around the table. Place Captio AI on the table and follow every contribution, including from the back of the room.
The most useful exchanges often happen over Arabic coffee and at the conference majlis or dinner. Captio AI works in these informal settings the same way it does in the main hall.
At an international conference in the region, sessions switch between Arabic, English, and French. Live Translator captions foreign-language talks in real time so you follow the full programme.
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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.
Why Arabic is hard to understand
Diglossia
- Formal MSA on the podium, dialect in the hallway
- Conference keynotes are delivered in Modern Standard Arabic — a formal register no one speaks at home — while the coffee-break conversation switches to Gulf, Egyptian, or Levantine dialect. A deaf attendee must lip-read across two very different varieties of Arabic within the same event, one prepared and formal, one fast and colloquial.
Pharyngeal consonants
- Sounds made deep in the throat, invisible on the lips
- Arabic ħ (ح) and ʕ (ع) are produced deep in the throat and give almost no lip or jaw cue. These consonants appear in common conference vocabulary, yet from an audience seat a deaf attendee sees nothing of the sounds that distinguish one term from another.
Emphatic consonants
- Pharyngealised pairs that look identical
- Arabic contrasts plain and emphatic consonants — s/sˤ, d/dˤ, t/tˤ — and the difference is a tongue-root gesture invisible at the lips. Two words that differ only in emphasis look the same on a presenter's mouth, so a technical distinction can be lost entirely in a keynote.
Dialect diversity
- Four spoken Arabics on one international panel
- A regional conference in Dubai or Cairo puts Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine, and Maghrebi speakers on the same stage. These varieties differ enough that even fluent Arabic speakers can struggle across them, so a deaf attendee faces a new lip-reading challenge with each panellist.
Arabic–English/French code-switching
- Technical terms in another language mid-sentence
- In Gulf and North African professional settings, speakers weave English or French technical terms into Arabic sentences without pause. A deaf attendee lip-reading Arabic suddenly meets English or French phonology on a key term, then returns to Arabic, with no visual signal of the switch.
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Download on theApp StoreHearing loss and professional access across the Arab world
The Arab world carries a significant hearing loss burden alongside structural barriers to support. The World Health Organization estimates that around 90% of people with disabling hearing loss globally live in low- and middle-income countries, which covers most of the Arab world outside the wealthiest Gulf states, and audiological services are typically concentrated in capital cities. Even in high-income Saudi Arabia, disability-survey analysis finds hundreds of thousands of people with hearing impairment and documents sharp regional gaps in diagnosis and hearing-aid access.
The Gulf in particular has built a major conference and events economy — the summits of Dubai and Riyadh, the academic congresses of the region's fast-growing universities — and these run on spoken Arabic delivered over PA systems, with English and French woven in. Sign language is fragmented across the region, with no unified Arab sign language, and real-time Arabic captioning of keynotes, panels, and Q&A is almost never provided. A deaf professional attends the same summit and receives a fraction of its content.
Captio AI closes that gap. Point the phone toward the PA and read every Arabic keynote and panel answer from any seat, record a dense session for the full transcript, and follow the conversations over Arabic coffee — so a deaf professional at a Gulf summit gets the same value from the same event as everyone in the hall.
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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.
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People love Captio AI
"Gulf summit keynotes are formal MSA and the speakers weave in English terms. From my seat I caught neither cleanly. Captio AI captioned the Arabic and the English together. I read the whole keynote and knew exactly what the announcements meant for my sector."
"The research talk was dense Modern Standard Arabic delivered fast. The pharyngeal and emphatic sounds give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session for the transcript. First time I followed a full congress talk."
"The panel had Egyptian, Gulf, and Levantine speakers, all different on the lips. Captio AI kept up with every dialect. As a panellist I could read the audience questions from the floor and answer what was actually asked."
"Speakers here mix Arabic and French constantly. Captio AI captioned both without me switching anything. I ran the networking session reading the conversations on my screen — I could finally introduce people instead of missing who said what."
"Gulf summit keynotes are formal MSA and the speakers weave in English terms. From my seat I caught neither cleanly. Captio AI captioned the Arabic and the English together. I read the whole keynote and knew exactly what the announcements meant for my sector."
"The research talk was dense Modern Standard Arabic delivered fast. The pharyngeal and emphatic sounds give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session for the transcript. First time I followed a full congress talk."
"The panel had Egyptian, Gulf, and Levantine speakers, all different on the lips. Captio AI kept up with every dialect. As a panellist I could read the audience questions from the floor and answer what was actually asked."
"Speakers here mix Arabic and French constantly. Captio AI captioned both without me switching anything. I ran the networking session reading the conversations on my screen — I could finally introduce people instead of missing who said what."
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