Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Gujarati 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 in Ahmedabad or at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Gujarati keynote from any seat.

🔬Academic and research conferences

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

💼Industry and professional events

Industry events like the Vibrant Gujarat investment summit and the business conferences of Surat carry content that affects your work. Captio AI captions every speaker so you follow the panel.

📋Workshops and breakout sessions

In a workshop or breakout, several voices contribute in a Gujarati–English mix from around the table. Place Captio AI on the table and follow every contribution, including from the back.

🤝Networking and informal sessions

The most useful conversations often happen over chai 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 summit in Gujarat, sessions switch between Gujarati, Hindi, and English. Live Translator captions foreign-language talks in real time so you follow the full programme.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Gujarati
92.2%

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.

Gujarati

Why Gujarati is hard to understand

Breathy vowels

  • Murmured vowels that the lips cannot reveal
  • Gujarati is unusual in contrasting murmured (breathy) and clear vowels — a difference in voice quality made at the vocal folds, not on the lips. Two words can differ only in this breathiness, so from a distant stage a deaf attendee sees the same mouth shape for terms that mean different things.

Retroflex series

  • Tongue-curl sounds invisible from the audience
  • Gujarati has a full retroflex series made with the tongue curled back toward the palate, giving no lip cue. A deaf attendee watching a presenter sees the same shape for a dental and a retroflex consonant, two different sounds that change a technical term in a keynote.

Aspiration contrasts

  • A puff of air that decides the word
  • Gujarati contrasts aspirated and unaspirated stops across several positions, and the aspiration is a breath with no visible lip movement. In a fast keynote the distinction that separates two terms is entirely inaudible to a lip-reader watching the mouth.

Regional varieties

  • Surti, Kathiawadi, and standard Gujarati differ
  • A Gujarat conference draws speakers of standard Amdavadi Gujarati, the Surti of Surat, and Kathiawadi from Saurashtra, which differ in vowels, rhythm, and murmur. A deaf attendee calibrated to one meets different lip shapes from the next presenter on the panel.

Gujarati–English code-switching

  • Technical English inside Gujarati sentences
  • Gujarat's business and industry speech mixes English terms into Gujarati constantly, especially in finance, diamonds, and manufacturing. A deaf attendee lip-reading Gujarati meets English phonology on the key vocabulary, then returns to Gujarati, with no visual signal of the switch.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and professional access in Gujarat

India carries one of the world's largest hearing loss burdens: the World Health Organization estimates 63 million people in India have significant auditory loss — around 6.3% of the population — and the 2011 Census recorded hearing impairment as roughly a fifth of all reported disability. Gujarat, one of India's most industrialised states, is home to a large share of this population, against a backdrop of diagnostic and rehabilitation services that remain badly stretched across the country.

Gujarat sits at the centre of India's business and investment conference culture — the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, the finance and manufacturing events of Ahmedabad and Surat, the academic congresses of its universities. These run on spoken Gujarati, Hindi, and English delivered over PA systems, and real-time Gujarati captioning of keynotes, panels, and Q&A is almost never provided. A deaf professional pays the same registration and receives a fraction of the content, especially in the breakouts and networking where deals are made.

Captio AI closes that gap. Point the phone toward the PA and read every Gujarati keynote and Q&A answer from any seat, record a dense session for the full transcript, and follow the conversations over the chai break — so a deaf professional in Ahmedabad or Gandhinagar 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

"Vibrant Gujarat sessions are Gujarati, Hindi, and English mixed, delivered fast from a far stage. I caught fragments. Captio AI captioned all of it from my seat. I read the whole session and knew exactly which investment tracks mattered for my firm."

Jayesh P. 🇮🇳
jayesh.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Ahmedabad — business conference attendee

"The keynote was formal Gujarati, and the breathy vowels and retroflex sounds give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Nikita S. 🇮🇳
nikita.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Vadodara — academic researcher

"Surti and standard Gujarati differ on the lips, and the panel had both. Captio AI captioned every speaker and the audience questions from the floor. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Bhavesh M. 🇮🇳
bhavesh.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Surat — panellist

"Networking over chai is where the deals start, and it used to be the part I skipped. Captio AI captioned the informal chats at the reception so I could take part. That is where I met my first investor."

Hetal D. 🇮🇳
hetal.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ahmedabad — startup founder

"Vibrant Gujarat sessions are Gujarati, Hindi, and English mixed, delivered fast from a far stage. I caught fragments. Captio AI captioned all of it from my seat. I read the whole session and knew exactly which investment tracks mattered for my firm."

Jayesh P. 🇮🇳
jayesh.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Ahmedabad — business conference attendee

"The keynote was formal Gujarati, and the breathy vowels and retroflex sounds give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Nikita S. 🇮🇳
nikita.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Vadodara — academic researcher

"Surti and standard Gujarati differ on the lips, and the panel had both. Captio AI captioned every speaker and the audience questions from the floor. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Bhavesh M. 🇮🇳
bhavesh.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Surat — panellist

"Networking over chai is where the deals start, and it used to be the part I skipped. Captio AI captioned the informal chats at the reception so I could take part. That is where I met my first investor."

Hetal D. 🇮🇳
hetal.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ahmedabad — startup founder

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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