German live captions and productivity tool for conferences & events
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
coming soon
Download for free
Download on theApp Store
Everything you need to follow German conferences & events
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing German 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
Download for free
Download on theApp StoreEvery situation covered
Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
From a far seat in a keynote hall in Berlin, Munich, or Vienna, the speaker is distant and the acoustics are hard. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the German keynote from any seat.
At an academic conference — a research congress at a German university or a scientific meeting in Zurich — presenters speak fast and stack long compound terms. Captio AI captions in real time and transcribes for later review.
Industry events and trade fairs in Frankfurt or Hamburg carry content that affects your work directly. Captio AI captions every speaker and panellist so you follow the whole session.
In a workshop or breakout, several voices contribute in German 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 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, sessions switch between German and English. Live Translator captions foreign-language talks in real time so you follow the full programme.
Most accurate and fastest models
word accuracy
independent benchmark, 2025
real-time captions
first word appears as you speak
Download for free
Download on theApp Store
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 German is hard to understand
Long compound nouns
- Whole concepts packed into one unbroken word
- German builds long compound technical terms — a single word can stack several ideas together. From a distant stage a deaf attendee who misses one syllable in the middle of a compound loses the entire term, and academic and industry German is full of them.
Final devoicing
- Word endings that lose their voicing
- In German, b, d, and g become p, t, and k at the end of a word. The ending a lip-reader relies on to tell two terms apart is neutralised exactly where it matters, and in a fast keynote the distinction is gone from the mouth entirely.
Front rounded vowels
- ü and ö look like u and o on the lips
- German ü and ö are made with rounded lips and a front tongue, so they look like plain u and o from the audience but make different words. In a technical talk delivered at pace, the vowel that changes a term is invisible from a seat in the hall.
Austrian and Swiss varieties
- Vienna and Zurich do not sound like Berlin
- A conference in Vienna or Zurich brings Austrian German and, especially, Swiss German — which differs so sharply from standard Hochdeutsch that even Germans need subtitles. A deaf attendee calibrated to standard German meets very different vowels and consonants from a Swiss or Austrian presenter.
Vowel length
- The same word, long or short, means two things
- German contrasts long and short vowels — the difference between 'Stadt' and 'Staat' is timing, not lip shape. At podium pace, the length distinction that separates two technical terms gives a lip-reader nothing to see.
Download for free
Download on theApp StoreHearing loss and professional access in the German-speaking world
Hearing loss is common across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Large German cohort studies — including the Gutenberg Health Study — put the prevalence of moderate-to-complete hearing loss (35 dB or more) at around 12.7%, and systematic reviews find overall rates ranging from 16% to 25% of the adult population depending on how hearing loss is measured. Many of these people are the researchers, engineers, and specialists who fill conference audiences in Berlin, Munich, and Zurich.
The German-speaking world hosts an enormous share of Europe's academic congresses, trade fairs, and industry events — the Frankfurt fairs, the Munich technology summits, the university conferences across all three countries. These run on spoken German delivered over PA systems, with English woven into technical sessions. Real-time German 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 German keynote and panel answer from any seat, record a dense technical session for the full transcript, and follow the conversations over coffee — so a deaf professional in Berlin or Zurich gets the same value from the same conference as everyone in the hall.
Download for free
Download on theApp StoreWhat 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.
Private by default
Download on theApp StoreCaptio AI supports 60+ languages
People love Captio AI
"German keynotes stack these enormous compound terms, and from the back of the hall if I miss one syllable I lose the whole word. Captio AI captioned the talk from my seat and I recorded it for the transcript. I followed a full congress session for the first time."
"Austrian and German speakers on the same panel, and I lip-read them differently. Captio AI captioned both without me adjusting. I read the whole discussion instead of catching only the presenter whose accent I knew best."
"Swiss German is a different world from Hochdeutsch, and when a speaker slips into it I am lost. Captio AI handled it and captioned the English terms our field uses too. I left the launch knowing exactly what changed in the roadmap."
"Networking over coffee is where the real conversations happen, and it used to be where I switched off. Captio AI captioned the informal chats at the reception so I could take part. That is where I met my first investor."
"German keynotes stack these enormous compound terms, and from the back of the hall if I miss one syllable I lose the whole word. Captio AI captioned the talk from my seat and I recorded it for the transcript. I followed a full congress session for the first time."
"Austrian and German speakers on the same panel, and I lip-read them differently. Captio AI captioned both without me adjusting. I read the whole discussion instead of catching only the presenter whose accent I knew best."
"Swiss German is a different world from Hochdeutsch, and when a speaker slips into it I am lost. Captio AI handled it and captioned the English terms our field uses too. I left the launch knowing exactly what changed in the roadmap."
"Networking over coffee is where the real conversations happen, and it used to be where I switched off. Captio AI captioned the informal chats at the reception so I could take part. That is where I met my first investor."
Download for free
Download on theApp StoreFrequently asked questions
Follow every speaker in German.
Captio AI is free to start
coming soon
Download for free
Download on theApp Store