Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Marathi 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 Mumbai or Pune, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Marathi keynote from any seat.

🔬Academic and research conferences

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

💼Industry and professional events

Industry events, IT summits, and finance conferences in Mumbai's Bandra-Kurla Complex or Pune 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 Marathi–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 conference, sessions switch between Marathi, Hindi, and English. Live Translator captions foreign-language talks in real time so you follow the full programme.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Marathi
93.1%

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.

Marathi

Why Marathi is hard to understand

Four-way stops

  • Plain, aspirated, voiced, and breathy — four where the lips show one
  • Marathi contrasts a four-way set of stops — plain voiceless, aspirated, voiced, and breathy voiced. The differences are aspiration and voice quality with no lip cue, so from a distant stage four different consonants look like one to a deaf attendee, and technical terms turn on exactly these contrasts.

Retroflex consonants

  • Tongue-curl sounds invisible from the audience
  • Marathi has a full retroflex series — ʈ, ɖ, ɳ, ɽ — made with the tongue curled back and giving no signal at the lips. A deaf attendee watching a presenter sees the same shape for a dental and a retroflex sound, two different consonants that change the word in a keynote.

Marathi–English code-switching

  • Technical English inside Marathi sentences
  • Urban Marathi academic and professional speech mixes English terms into Marathi constantly, especially in Mumbai and Pune's technology and finance circles. A deaf attendee lip-reading Marathi must switch to English phonology on the key terms, then back, with no visual warning.

Regional varieties

  • Puneri, Varhadi, and coastal Marathi differ
  • A Maharashtra conference draws speakers of standard Puneri Marathi, the Varhadi of Vidarbha, and coastal Konkani-influenced Marathi. These differ in vowels, rhythm, and vocabulary, so a deaf attendee calibrated to one meets different lip shapes from the next presenter.

Sanskritised register

  • Formal podium Marathi versus everyday speech
  • Prepared Marathi talks reach for a formal, Sanskritised register with long compounds and technical vocabulary quite different from everyday spoken Marathi. The keynote and the corridor conversation can feel like two varieties of the language to a deaf attendee.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and professional access in Maharashtra

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. Maharashtra is home to around 11% of India's population with disabilities, one of the largest such populations of any Indian state, and diagnostic and rehabilitation services remain badly stretched.

Maharashtra sits at the centre of India's professional conference culture — the finance and industry events of Mumbai's Bandra-Kurla Complex, the IT and academic summits of Pune. These events run on spoken Marathi, Hindi, and English delivered over PA systems, and they are where research is shared and careers advance. Real-time Marathi captioning of keynotes, panels, and the crucial Q&A is almost never part of the programme, so a deaf professional pays the same registration for a fraction of the access.

Captio AI closes that gap. Point the phone toward the PA and read every Marathi 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 Mumbai or Pune 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

"The keynote was formal Sanskritised Marathi with long compounds, delivered fast from a far stage. I caught fragments. Captio AI captioned it from my seat and I recorded the session for the transcript. First time I followed a full congress talk."

Aditya J. 🇮🇳
aditya.j***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Pune — academic researcher

"BKC finance talks are Marathi and English mixed on every point. Captio AI captioned both from my seat without me doing anything. I read the whole session and understood exactly what the outlook meant for my firm."

Sneha K. 🇮🇳
sneha.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Mumbai — finance conference attendee

"The panel had Puneri and Varhadi speakers, different on the lips, and the aspirated and retroflex sounds give me nothing. Captio AI captioned every question from the floor. I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Prasad M. 🇮🇳
prasad.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Nagpur — panellist

"Networking over chai is where the useful conversations happen, 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 mentor."

Manasi D. 🇮🇳
manasi.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Pune — startup founder

"The keynote was formal Sanskritised Marathi with long compounds, delivered fast from a far stage. I caught fragments. Captio AI captioned it from my seat and I recorded the session for the transcript. First time I followed a full congress talk."

Aditya J. 🇮🇳
aditya.j***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Pune — academic researcher

"BKC finance talks are Marathi and English mixed on every point. Captio AI captioned both from my seat without me doing anything. I read the whole session and understood exactly what the outlook meant for my firm."

Sneha K. 🇮🇳
sneha.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Mumbai — finance conference attendee

"The panel had Puneri and Varhadi speakers, different on the lips, and the aspirated and retroflex sounds give me nothing. Captio AI captioned every question from the floor. I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Prasad M. 🇮🇳
prasad.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Nagpur — panellist

"Networking over chai is where the useful conversations happen, 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 mentor."

Manasi D. 🇮🇳
manasi.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Pune — startup founder

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every speaker in Marathi.

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