Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Bosnian 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 Skenderija centre in Sarajevo, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Bosnian keynote from any seat.

🔬Academic and research conferences

At an academic conference — a research congress at a Sarajevo university or a scientific meeting in Mostar — 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 Sarajevo 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 Bosnian 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 in Bosnia, sessions switch between Bosnian and English. Live Translator captions foreign-language talks in real time so you follow the full programme.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Bosnian
93.4%

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.

Bosnian

Why Bosnian is hard to understand

Pitch accent

  • Rising and falling tones you cannot see
  • Bosnian inherits the Shtokavian pitch-and-length accent system, where stressed syllables carry rising or falling tones and long or short quantities. These distinctions ride on pitch and duration, not on the lips, so from a distant stage a deaf attendee gets no visual cue for the tone that separates one word from another.

Ijekavian reflexes

  • The 'ije' and 'je' sequences that reshape words
  • Standard Bosnian uses Ijekavian pronunciation, where the old jat vowel surfaces as ije or je — reshaping common words into longer diphthongal sequences. A deaf attendee finds familiar terms carry unfamiliar vowel shapes on a presenter's lips in a keynote.

Affricate contrasts

  • č and ć, dž and đ look almost identical
  • Bosnian distinguishes two pairs of affricates — č versus ć and dž versus đ — that sit very close together and look nearly identical on the lips, and it retains the h sound where neighbouring varieties drop it. In a keynote these fine contrasts decide the word but give a lip-reader nothing to see.

Regional accent range

  • Sarajevo, Herzegovina, and the Krajina differ
  • The Bosnian of urban Sarajevo differs from Herzegovina in the south and the Bosnian Krajina in the northwest — in accent, rhythm, and vocabulary. A conference draws speakers from all of these, so a deaf attendee re-calibrates for each presenter on the panel.

Bosnian–English code-switching

  • Technical English inside Bosnian sentences
  • Bosnian technology and academic speech, especially in Sarajevo, drops English terms into Bosnian sentences constantly. A deaf attendee lip-reading Bosnian meets English phonology on the key vocabulary, then returns to Bosnian, with no visual signal of the switch.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and professional access in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The deaf population of Bosnia and Herzegovina is estimated at roughly 3.3% of the general population, though researchers stress that the lack of systematic study makes any figure difficult to pin down — rehabilitation studies have worked with samples of over a thousand deaf and hard of hearing people registered with employment and social-care offices. This absence of reliable data is itself a barrier: services and support cannot be planned for a community that is not measured.

Sarajevo hosts a growing conference and events sector — the academic congresses of its universities, the technology and business summits held at venues like the Skenderija centre. These run on spoken Bosnian delivered over PA systems, with English woven into technical sessions, in a country whose sign language was recognised in law in 2009 but whose everyday access services remain thin. Real-time Bosnian 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 Bosnian 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 Sarajevo 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

"Sarajevo tech talks drop English terms into Bosnian 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."

Amar H. 🇧🇦
amar.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Sarajevo — industry conference attendee

"The pitch accents and the close affricates give me nothing on the lips, and the keynote was fast. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Amina D. 🇧🇦
amina.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Mostar — academic researcher

"Sarajevo, Herzegovina, and Krajina speakers all sound different on the lips, and the panel had all of them. Captio AI captioned every one and the audience questions. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Emir K. 🇧🇦
emir.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Banja Luka — 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 collaborator."

Lejla B. 🇧🇦
lejla.b***@gmail.com
Deaf, Sarajevo — startup founder

"Sarajevo tech talks drop English terms into Bosnian 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."

Amar H. 🇧🇦
amar.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Sarajevo — industry conference attendee

"The pitch accents and the close affricates give me nothing on the lips, and the keynote was fast. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Amina D. 🇧🇦
amina.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Mostar — academic researcher

"Sarajevo, Herzegovina, and Krajina speakers all sound different on the lips, and the panel had all of them. Captio AI captioned every one and the audience questions. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Emir K. 🇧🇦
emir.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Banja Luka — 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 collaborator."

Lejla B. 🇧🇦
lejla.b***@gmail.com
Deaf, Sarajevo — startup founder

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every speaker in Bosnian.

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