Korean live captions and productivity tool for conferences & events
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Korean conferences & events
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Korean 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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Every situation covered
Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
From a far seat in a keynote hall at COEX in Seoul or BEXCO in Busan, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Korean keynote from any seat.
At an academic conference — a research congress at a Seoul university or a scientific meeting in Daejeon — presenters speak fast and pack talks with Sino-Korean terminology. Captio AI captions in real time and transcribes for later review.
Industry events, technology summits, and product launches in Seoul 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 Korean 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 in Korea, sessions switch between Korean 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 Korean is hard to understand
Three-way stops
- Plain, tense, and aspirated — three where the lips show one
- Korean is unusual in having three kinds of voiceless stop: plain (lax), tense, and aspirated. The differences are voice quality, tension, and the pitch of the following vowel — not lip shape. From a distant stage, three different consonants look identical to a deaf attendee, and technical terms turn on exactly these contrasts.
Batchim liaison
- Final consonants that resurface on the next word
- Korean final consonants (batchim) are often unreleased, but link onto a following vowel-initial word and can change under assimilation. A deaf attendee sees a syllable-final consonant seem to disappear, then reappear on the next word in altered form — so word boundaries and endings are unreadable from the lips.
Honorific register
- Formal speech levels reshape verb endings
- Conference Korean uses formal speech levels, layering honorific and polite endings onto verbs that lengthen and restructure the end of every sentence. A deaf attendee who lip-reads casual Korean meets a formal register on the podium in which the sentence-final forms carrying the point take unfamiliar shapes.
Homophones and Sino-Korean terms
- Same-sounding academic vocabulary
- Korean technical vocabulary draws heavily on Sino-Korean compounds with many homophones, resolved by context. In a dense research talk, a deaf attendee who misses the surrounding context cannot recover which of several identical-sounding terms was meant.
Korean–English code-switching
- Technical English inside Korean sentences
- Korean academic and industry talks drop English terms and acronyms into Korean sentences constantly. A deaf attendee lip-reading Korean meets English phonology on the key vocabulary, then returns to Korean, with no visual signal of the switch.
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Hearing loss and professional access in South Korea
Hearing loss is widespread in South Korea: a national study found minimal hearing loss in around 37% of people aged 12 and over, and the registered hearing-disabled population roughly doubled between 2010 and 2020. Yet uptake of hearing aids remains modest — regular use is reported by only around 12.6% of those with hearing loss — so a large professional population, in one of the world's most conference-intensive economies, navigates working life on unaided hearing.
South Korea hosts a vast programme of academic congresses, technology summits, and industry events at venues like COEX in Seoul and BEXCO in Busan. These run on spoken Korean delivered over PA systems, with English terms woven into technical sessions. Real-time Korean captioning of keynotes, panels, and Q&A is rarely provided, and where any accessibility exists it does not reach the breakouts and networking where careers and collaborations form.
Captio AI closes that gap. Point the phone toward the PA and read every Korean 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 Seoul or Busan gets the same value from the same conference as everyone in the hall.
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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.
Private by default
Captio AI supports 60+ languages
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Frequently asked questions
Follow every speaker in Korean.
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