Finnish live captions and productivity tool for conferences & events
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Finnish conferences & events
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Finnish 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 at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre or Finlandia Hall, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Finnish keynote from any seat.
At an academic conference — a research congress at a Helsinki university or a scientific meeting in Tampere — presenters speak fast and stack agglutinated terms. Captio AI captions in real time and transcribes for later review.
Industry events, technology summits, and product launches in Helsinki carry content that affects your work. Captio AI captions every speaker so you follow the panel and miss nothing.
In a workshop or breakout, several voices contribute in Finnish from around the table. Place Captio AI on the table and follow every contribution, including from the back of the room.
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.
At an international conference in Finland, sessions switch between Finnish and English. 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 Finnish is hard to understand
Long vowels and gemination
- Length that changes the word — in vowels and consonants
- Finnish contrasts short and long sounds for both vowels and consonants — 'tuli', 'tuuli', and 'tulli' are three different words. These are timing distinctions, not lip shapes, so from a distant stage a deaf attendee cannot see which of several similar-looking terms was said in a keynote.
Consonant gradation
- The same root's consonants change between forms
- Finnish consonants alternate between a strong and a weak grade as a word inflects — p, t, k weaken or double depending on the ending. A deaf attendee tracking a term sees its consonants change shape from one form to the next, so the same root looks different as the speaker uses it through an argument.
Vowel harmony
- Suffix vowels that shift to match the root
- Finnish suffixes harmonise their vowels with the root — back with back, front with front. These unstressed suffix vowels carry grammar at the ends of long words, and in fast podium speech they weaken and blur, exactly where a deaf attendee needs them to follow the sentence.
Agglutination and case
- Long words with meaning stacked on the end
- Finnish glues many suffixes onto a root and marks around fifteen cases, so where you are going, coming from, or staying is encoded in endings at the far end of a long word. In fast delivery those endings clip, so the exact information a deaf attendee needs fades on the lips.
No cognate footholds
- A language unrelated to those around it
- Finnish is a Uralic language, unrelated to the Indo-European languages around it, so its words share no roots a listener could guess from. Where a lip-reader might fill a gap in a familiar-looking word, Finnish offers no such foothold — every missed sound is a word that cannot be reconstructed from context.
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Hearing loss is common in Finland and rises steeply with age — among adults aged 54 to 66 the prevalence of hearing impairment is around 27%, and among older adults roughly 43% report difficulty following a conversation between several people, with a weighted prevalence of hearing loss near 16%. Against a European backdrop in which about one in five people has some hearing loss, a large professional population lives and works with hearing difficulty that is often under-supported.
Helsinki and Tampere host a busy calendar of congresses and events — the academic conferences of their universities, the technology and industry summits at venues like the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre. These run on spoken Finnish delivered over PA systems, with English heavily woven into technical sessions. Real-time Finnish captioning of keynotes, panels, and Q&A is rarely provided, and where captioning exists it covers the main stage, not the breakouts and networking where professional value is built.
Captio AI closes that gap. Point the phone toward the PA and read every Finnish 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 Helsinki or Tampere gets the same value from the same conference 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.
Private by default
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People love Captio AI
"Helsinki tech talks drop English terms into Finnish 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."
"Finnish words are so long and the length distinctions decide the word, none of which I can see. Captio AI captioned the keynote from my seat and I recorded it. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."
"Consonant gradation changes the same word's consonants between forms, so lip-reading it is hopeless. Captio AI captioned every audience question. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."
"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."
"Helsinki tech talks drop English terms into Finnish 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."
"Finnish words are so long and the length distinctions decide the word, none of which I can see. Captio AI captioned the keynote from my seat and I recorded it. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."
"Consonant gradation changes the same word's consonants between forms, so lip-reading it is hopeless. Captio AI captioned every audience question. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."
"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."
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