Tagalog live captions and productivity tool for conferences & events
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Tagalog conferences & events
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Tagalog 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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Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
From a far seat in a keynote hall at the Philippine International Convention Center or SMX in Manila, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Tagalog keynote from any seat.
At an academic conference — a research congress at a Manila university or a scientific meeting in Cebu — presenters speak fast and mix in terminology. Captio AI captions in real time and transcribes for later review.
Industry events, technology summits, and business briefings in Metro Manila 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 a Taglish mix from around the table. Place Captio AI on the table and follow every contribution, including from the back.
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.
At an international conference in the Philippines, sessions switch between Tagalog 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 Tagalog is hard to understand
Glottal stops
- Sounds made in the throat that break words apart
- Tagalog inserts a glottal stop between adjacent vowels and at the start of vowel-initial words — a catch in the throat with no lip movement at all. From a distant stage a deaf attendee cannot see these stops, so word boundaries and meaning-changing distinctions disappear inside a keynote.
Taglish code-switching
- Tagalog and English woven together sentence by sentence
- Filipino professional speech is Taglish — a stable, fluent blend of Tagalog and English that switches within a single sentence, often on the technical terms. A deaf attendee lip-reading Tagalog must jump between two phonologies with no visual warning of which language is on the mouth.
Stress and length
- Where the stress falls changes the word
- In Tagalog, two words can differ only in stress placement or in a glottal stop at the end, not in their consonants and vowels. These are pitch and timing cues, not lip shapes, so from an audience seat a deaf attendee cannot tell such pairs apart in a technical talk.
Casual reduction
- Fast speech blurs the distinctions that carry meaning
- The main challenge in spoken Tagalog is hearing the reduced distinctions of casual speech. In a lively panel Q&A those distinctions blur and words run together, leaving a deaf attendee with a fast, connected stream and little visual footing.
Regional accents
- Cebuano, Kapampangan, and Ilocano colour the podium
- A conference in Manila draws speakers whose Tagalog carries Cebuano, Kapampangan, or Ilocano influence — for instance, Kapampangan speakers may replace an /h/ with a glottal stop. A deaf attendee calibrated to Manila Tagalog meets shifting speech from one presenter to the next.
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A national survey found moderate or worse hearing loss in around 15% of the Philippine population — nearly one in six people — rising to 14.7% among working-age adults aged 18 to 65. Government and disability figures put the number of Filipinos who are deaf or hearing-impaired at roughly 1.44 million as of 2022, and the survey noted comparatively high rates of severe-to-profound loss relative to high-income countries. A large professional population lives and works with hearing loss that is often under-supported.
Metro Manila is one of Southeast Asia's busy conference hubs — the academic congresses of its universities, the technology and business summits at venues like the Philippine International Convention Center and SMX. These run on spoken Tagalog and English, blended as Taglish, delivered over PA systems. Real-time 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 Tagalog and Taglish 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 Manila or Cebu gets the same value from the same conference as everyone in the hall.
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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.
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People love Captio AI
"Manila tech talks are pure Taglish, switching between Tagalog and English every sentence. From the back of the hall I caught almost nothing. Captio AI captioned both from my seat. I read the whole session and knew exactly which announcements mattered for my team."
"The keynote was fast Tagalog, full of glottal stops that break words in ways I cannot see. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session for the transcript. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."
"Speakers bring their province's accent — Cebuano, Kapampangan — and the panel had all of them. Captio AI captioned every one and the audience questions from the floor. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."
"Networking over coffee 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 investor."
"Manila tech talks are pure Taglish, switching between Tagalog and English every sentence. From the back of the hall I caught almost nothing. Captio AI captioned both from my seat. I read the whole session and knew exactly which announcements mattered for my team."
"The keynote was fast Tagalog, full of glottal stops that break words in ways I cannot see. Captio AI captioned it accurately and I recorded the session for the transcript. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."
"Speakers bring their province's accent — Cebuano, Kapampangan — and the panel had all of them. Captio AI captioned every one and the audience questions from the floor. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."
"Networking over coffee 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 investor."
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