Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Persian 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 Tehran, the speaker is distant and the Persian is formal and fast. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the keynote from any seat.

🔬Academic and research conferences

At an academic conference — a research congress at a Tehran university or a medical meeting in Mashhad — presenters speak fast and pack talks with terminology. Captio AI captions in real time and transcribes for later review.

💼Industry and professional events

Industry events, technology summits, and product briefings in Tehran 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 Persian 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 tea 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 Persian and English. Live Translator captions foreign-language talks in real time so you follow the full programme.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Persian
89.1%

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.

Persian

Why Persian is hard to understand

Back-of-throat consonants

  • Sounds made deep in the throat, invisible on the lips
  • Persian has several consonants produced far back in the mouth and throat — خ, غ, ق — with no visible lip movement. These appear in formal and technical vocabulary, so from a distant stage a deaf attendee sees nothing of the sounds that distinguish one keynote term from another.

Ezafe linking

  • An unstressed vowel that ties phrases together
  • Persian links nouns to their modifiers with the ezafe, a short unstressed -e that is often not written and easily missed. It carries essential grammatical structure but sits on weak, fleeting vowels, so a deaf attendee cannot see how the parts of a complex phrase connect on the lips.

Short-vowel omission

  • The vowels that carry meaning are the ones that drop
  • Persian short vowels are unstable, unwritten, and reduced in fast speech, while long vowels stay stable. In a rapid keynote the short vowels that separate two words weaken and disappear, leaving a deaf attendee with a consonant skeleton and no way to fill it in.

Tehrani versus Dari

  • Iranian and Afghan Persian differ on the podium
  • A Persian-language conference may bring Tehrani Iranian Persian and Afghan Dari speakers together. They differ in vowels and in whether certain back consonants merge, so a deaf attendee calibrated to Tehrani Persian meets different lip shapes from a Dari-speaking presenter.

Persian–English terms

  • Technical English inside Persian sentences
  • Iranian academic and industry talks drop English and international scientific terms into Persian sentences. A deaf attendee lip-reading Persian meets a foreign term with unfamiliar phonology on exactly the words that carry the talk, with no visual signal of the switch.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and professional access in Iran

Hearing loss is common in Iran and shaped by specific structural factors. A population study in Tehran found hearing impairment in around 14% of people, with roughly 5% having disabling hearing loss, and the country's high rate of consanguineous marriage means hereditary hearing loss is markedly elevated — consanguinity among the parents of deaf children runs at about 65%, nearly double the general rate. National reviews describe an ear-and-hearing-care system stretched to meet this burden.

Iran hosts a large programme of academic congresses, medical conferences, and technology events, concentrated in Tehran and other major cities. These run on spoken Persian delivered over PA systems, with English and international scientific terms woven into technical sessions. Real-time Persian 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 Persian keynote and panel answer from any seat, record a dense technical session for the full transcript, and follow the conversations over tea — so a deaf professional in Tehran 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 Persian, full of the back-of-throat sounds I cannot see, delivered fast from a far stage. Captio AI captioned it from my seat and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Reza M. 🇮🇷
reza.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Tehran — academic researcher

"Tech talks drop English scientific terms into Persian on every point. Captio AI captioned both from my seat without me switching anything. I read the whole session and understood exactly what the announcement meant for my field."

Sara K. 🇮🇷
sara.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Tehran — industry conference attendee

"The ezafe and the dropped short vowels make phrases impossible to piece together from the lips. Captio AI captioned every audience question. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing at it."

Ali H. 🇮🇷
ali.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Mashhad — panellist

"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 mentor."

Maryam T. 🇮🇷
maryam.t***@gmail.com
Deaf, Tehran — startup founder

"The keynote was formal Persian, full of the back-of-throat sounds I cannot see, delivered fast from a far stage. Captio AI captioned it from my seat and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."

Reza M. 🇮🇷
reza.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Tehran — academic researcher

"Tech talks drop English scientific terms into Persian on every point. Captio AI captioned both from my seat without me switching anything. I read the whole session and understood exactly what the announcement meant for my field."

Sara K. 🇮🇷
sara.k***@gmail.com
Deaf, Tehran — industry conference attendee

"The ezafe and the dropped short vowels make phrases impossible to piece together from the lips. Captio AI captioned every audience question. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing at it."

Ali H. 🇮🇷
ali.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Mashhad — panellist

"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 mentor."

Maryam T. 🇮🇷
maryam.t***@gmail.com
Deaf, Tehran — startup founder

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every speaker in Persian.

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