Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Malay 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 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre or a venue in Putrajaya, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Malay keynote from any seat.

🔬Academic and research conferences

At an academic conference — a research congress at a Kuala Lumpur university or a scientific meeting in Penang — 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 product launches in Kuala Lumpur 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 a Malay–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 teh tarik 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 Malaysia, sessions switch between Malay and English. Live Translator captions foreign-language talks in real time so you follow the full programme.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Malay
90.2%

word accuracy

independent benchmark, 2025

< 200ms
you speak
captions

real-time captions

first word appears as you speak

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Captio AI in everyday use
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.

Malay

Why Malay is hard to understand

Formal–colloquial gap

  • Baku Malay on stage, bahasa pasar in the hallway
  • Conference keynotes use formal standard (baku) Malay, while the coffee-break conversation switches to colloquial Malay with contractions and borrowed slang. A deaf attendee lip-reads across two registers within the same event — a careful, full-form prepared talk and fast, clipped everyday speech.

Schwa variation

  • Word-final vowels that differ by region
  • Malay pronunciation splits on the final vowel: in some varieties word-final 'a' is a clear /a/, in others (like Johor-Riau standard) it is a schwa, and final 'r' may be silent. A deaf attendee calibrated to one variety finds the word endings on a speaker's lips do not match what they expect.

Regional and national varieties

  • Malaysian, Bruneian, and northern Malay differ
  • A Malay-language conference may bring Malaysian, Bruneian, and northern-dialect speakers together, differing in the final vowel, rhythm, and vocabulary. A deaf attendee re-calibrates for each presenter, because the same word carries different vowel shapes on different mouths.

Affix-carried grammar

  • Prefixes and suffixes that clip in fast speech
  • Malay builds meaning with prefixes and suffixes — meN-, ber-, -kan, -an — that reshape a root word. In fast podium delivery these unstressed affixes clip and blur, so the part of the word that signals who does what fades on the lips just when a deaf attendee needs it.

Malay–English code-switching

  • Technical English inside Malay sentences
  • Malaysian academic and industry speech mixes Malay and English constantly — 'rojak' language — dropping English terms into Malay sentences without pause. A deaf attendee lip-reading Malay meets English phonology on the key vocabulary, then returns to Malay, with no visual signal of the switch.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and professional access in Malaysia

Hearing loss is widespread in Malaysia: the general-population prevalence has been estimated at around 21.5%, and the National Health and Morbidity Survey found hearing disability in 6.4% of older adults — yet only about 1.5% of older people with hearing loss use a hearing aid. National registration data records tens of thousands of people with hearing impairment, a figure widely regarded as an undercount. A large professional population lives and works with under-supported hearing loss.

Malaysia is a major regional conference and events hub — the academic congresses of Kuala Lumpur and Penang, the technology and industry summits at venues like the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, the government and business events of Putrajaya. These run on spoken Malay delivered over PA systems, with English heavily mixed in. Real-time Malay captioning of keynotes, panels, and Q&A is rarely 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 Malay keynote and panel answer from any seat, record a dense session for the full transcript, and follow the conversations over a teh tarik break — so a deaf professional in Kuala Lumpur 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

"KLCC tech talks are Malay and English mixed on every point, delivered fast from a far stage. I caught almost nothing. Captio AI captioned both from my seat. I read the whole session and knew exactly what the launch meant for my team."

Ahmad F. 🇲🇾
ahmad.f***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Kuala Lumpur — industry conference attendee

"The keynote was formal baku Malay, delivered fast, and the affixes clip in ways I cannot follow on the lips. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Nurul A. 🇲🇾
nurul.a***@gmail.com
Deaf, Penang — academic researcher

"The final-vowel differences between varieties throw off my lip-reading, and the panel had speakers from all over. Captio AI captioned every one and the audience questions. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked."

Farid R. 🇲🇾
farid.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Putrajaya — panellist

"Networking over teh tarik is where the useful conversations happen, and it used to be the part I stepped away from. Captio AI captioned the informal chats at the reception so I could take part. That is where I met my first investor."

Siti H. 🇲🇾
siti.h***@gmail.com
Deaf, Kuala Lumpur — startup founder

"KLCC tech talks are Malay and English mixed on every point, delivered fast from a far stage. I caught almost nothing. Captio AI captioned both from my seat. I read the whole session and knew exactly what the launch meant for my team."

Ahmad F. 🇲🇾
ahmad.f***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Kuala Lumpur — industry conference attendee

"The keynote was formal baku Malay, delivered fast, and the affixes clip in ways I cannot follow on the lips. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Nurul A. 🇲🇾
nurul.a***@gmail.com
Deaf, Penang — academic researcher

"The final-vowel differences between varieties throw off my lip-reading, and the panel had speakers from all over. Captio AI captioned every one and the audience questions. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked."

Farid R. 🇲🇾
farid.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Putrajaya — panellist

"Networking over teh tarik is where the useful conversations happen, and it used to be the part I stepped away from. Captio AI captioned the informal chats at the reception so I could take part. That is where I met my first investor."

Siti H. 🇲🇾
siti.h***@gmail.com
Deaf, Kuala Lumpur — startup founder

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every speaker in Malay.

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