Kazakh live captions and productivity tool for conferences & events
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Kazakh conferences & events
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Kazakh 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 Congress Center in Astana or a venue in Almaty, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Kazakh keynote from any seat.
At an academic conference — a research congress at an Astana university or a scientific meeting in Almaty — presenters speak fast and stack agglutinated terms. Captio AI captions in real time and transcribes for later review.
Industry events, energy and mining summits, and technology conferences in Astana and Almaty carry content that affects your work. Captio AI captions every speaker so you follow the panel.
In a workshop or breakout, several voices contribute in Kazakh 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 tea 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 Kazakhstan, sessions switch between Kazakh, Russian, 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 Kazakh is hard to understand
Uvular consonants
- The q sound made deep in the mouth, invisible on the lips
- Kazakh has a voiceless uvular stop q that is very common — in native roots and in many grammatical suffixes — along with other back consonants. These are produced far back in the mouth with no lip movement, so from a distant stage a deaf attendee sees nothing of the sounds that separate one keynote term from another.
Vowel harmony
- Suffix vowels that shift with the root
- Kazakh 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
- Long words built from stacked suffixes
- Kazakh glues many suffixes onto a root to build a single long word that can carry a whole clause's meaning. From a distant stage, a deaf attendee who misses one suffix in the middle loses the grammatical thread of a technical term.
Front rounded vowels
- ө and ү made with rounded lips but a front tongue
- Kazakh has front rounded vowels — ө and ү — that look like their back counterparts on the lips but make different words. In a fast keynote a deaf attendee cannot see the tongue position that distinguishes them, so the vowel that changes a term is invisible.
Kazakh–Russian code-switching
- Technical Russian inside Kazakh sentences
- Kazakhstan is deeply bilingual, and professional and academic speech mixes Russian into Kazakh constantly, especially on technical vocabulary. A deaf attendee lip-reading Kazakh meets Russian phonology on the key terms, then returns to Kazakh, with no visual signal of the switch.
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Hearing loss is a growing and under-counted issue in Kazakhstan. National analyses put the age-standardised prevalence at over 17,000 per 100,000 — around 17% of the population — and the highest share of cases falls among working-age adults aged 18 to 59. Roughly 150,000 people are officially registered with hearing impairment, but experts estimate the true figure may be closer to 250,000, reflecting under-diagnosis and the absence of comprehensive national screening.
Astana and Almaty have become major regional conference cities — the energy and mining summits of a resource-rich economy, the academic congresses of the country's universities, the technology and business events hosted at large modern venues. These run on spoken Kazakh, with Russian heavily mixed in, delivered over PA systems. Real-time Kazakh 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 Kazakh keynote and panel answer from any seat, record a dense session for the full transcript, and follow the conversations over tea — so a deaf professional in Astana or Almaty 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
"Astana summit talks mix Kazakh and Russian 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 announcements meant for my sector."
"The keynote stacked long agglutinated words and the uvular q gives 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."
"The front rounded vowels look the same as the back ones on the lips, and the panel switched between Kazakh and Russian constantly. Captio AI captioned all of it and the audience questions. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked."
"Networking over tea 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."
"Astana summit talks mix Kazakh and Russian 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 announcements meant for my sector."
"The keynote stacked long agglutinated words and the uvular q gives 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."
"The front rounded vowels look the same as the back ones on the lips, and the panel switched between Kazakh and Russian constantly. Captio AI captioned all of it and the audience questions. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked."
"Networking over tea 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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