Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Macedonian 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 Skopje, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Macedonian keynote from any seat.

🔬Academic and research conferences

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

💼Industry and professional events

Industry events, technology summits, and business briefings in Skopje carry content that affects your work. Captio AI captions every speaker so you follow the panel and miss nothing.

📋Workshops and breakout sessions

In a workshop or breakout, several voices contribute in Macedonian from around the table. Place Captio AI on the table and follow every contribution, including from the back of the room.

🤝Networking and informal sessions

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.

🌍International and multilingual events

At an international conference in North Macedonia, sessions switch between Macedonian and English. Live Translator captions foreign-language talks in real time so you follow the full programme.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Macedonian
87.6%

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.

Macedonian

Why Macedonian is hard to understand

Antepenultimate stress

  • Stress that shifts as words grow
  • Standard Macedonian fixes stress on the third-from-last syllable, so when suffixes and articles attach, the stress moves and the same root looks different each time. A deaf attendee trying to track a word by its stressed syllable finds the anchor keeps sliding as a speaker inflects a term through a technical argument.

Suffixed articles

  • Grammar lives on the ends of words
  • Macedonian attaches its definite article to the end of the noun, with a three-way system marking near, far, or neutral. A large amount of grammatical meaning is packed into these final syllables — exactly where fast speech and camera angle make lip-reading hardest.

Palatal stops ќ and ѓ

  • Distinctive sounds that look like their neighbours
  • Macedonian has the palatal stops ќ and ѓ, sounds specific to the language that sit close to other stops and affricates and look almost identical on the lips. Written in Cyrillic and spoken quickly, they carry meaning a deaf attendee cannot recover from the mouth alone.

East–west dialect split

  • Skopje and the east do not sound the same
  • Western Macedonian has the fixed antepenultimate stress of the standard, but eastern dialects reduce unstressed vowels and use mobile stress. A conference draws speakers from across the country, so a deaf attendee meets different rhythms and vowel qualities from one presenter to the next.

Balkan code-switching

  • City speech mixes in other languages
  • Colloquial Skopje speech blends in Serbian, Turkish, and English words, and technical talks drop English terms into Macedonian sentences. A deaf attendee lip-reading Macedonian meets a different phonology on the key vocabulary, with no visual signal of the switch.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and professional access in North Macedonia

Hearing loss runs higher in Eastern Europe than in the west — by an estimated factor of around 1.35 in WHO analyses — and North Macedonia sits squarely in that higher-prevalence region, against a global backdrop in which roughly one in five people has some hearing loss. The country's deaf community is organised through a national association active since 1948, and around 6,000 people request signed news broadcasts — a visible core of a wider population that has never been systematically counted.

Skopje hosts a growing conference and events sector — the academic congresses of its universities, the technology and business summits held in the capital. North Macedonia recognised Macedonian Sign Language in law in 2009, but in a small country with limited budgets that recognition has not extended to real-time access at events. These run on spoken Macedonian delivered over PA systems, with English woven in, and captioning of keynotes, panels, and Q&A is essentially never provided — least of all in the breakouts and networking where professional value is built.

Captio AI closes that gap. Point the phone toward the PA and read every Macedonian 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 Skopje 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

"Skopje tech talks drop English terms into Macedonian 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 team."

Goran S. 🇲🇰
goran.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Skopje — industry conference attendee

"The stress moves as words take suffixes, so I lose track of what I think I recognise. Captio AI captioned the keynote accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Elena T. 🇲🇰
elena.t***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ohrid — academic researcher

"Western and eastern Macedonian speakers use different rhythms, and the panel had both. Captio AI captioned every one and the audience questions. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Dragan P. 🇲🇰
dragan.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bitola — panellist

"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 collaborator."

Marija K. 🇲🇰
marija.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Skopje — startup founder

"Skopje tech talks drop English terms into Macedonian 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 team."

Goran S. 🇲🇰
goran.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Skopje — industry conference attendee

"The stress moves as words take suffixes, so I lose track of what I think I recognise. Captio AI captioned the keynote accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Elena T. 🇲🇰
elena.t***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ohrid — academic researcher

"Western and eastern Macedonian speakers use different rhythms, and the panel had both. Captio AI captioned every one and the audience questions. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Dragan P. 🇲🇰
dragan.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Bitola — panellist

"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 collaborator."

Marija K. 🇲🇰
marija.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Skopje — startup founder

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every speaker in Macedonian.

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