Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Turkish 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 Istanbul Congress Center or a venue in Ankara, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Turkish keynote from any seat.

🔬Academic and research conferences

At an academic conference — a research congress at an Istanbul university or a scientific meeting in Izmir — presenters speak fast and stack long agglutinated terms. Captio AI captions in real time and transcribes for later review.

💼Industry and professional events

Industry events, technology summits, and product launches in Istanbul 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 Turkish 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 Turkish 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 in Turkey, sessions switch between Turkish and English. Live Translator captions foreign-language talks in real time so you follow the full programme.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Turkish
91.1%

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.

Turkish

Why Turkish is hard to understand

Agglutination

  • Long words built from stacked suffixes
  • Turkish glues many suffixes onto a root to build a single long word that can carry what a whole English clause would. From a distant stage, a deaf attendee who misses one suffix in the middle loses the grammatical thread — and academic Turkish stacks these suffixes densely.

Vowel harmony

  • Suffix vowels that shift and blur at speed
  • Turkish suffixes change their vowels to harmonise with the root, so the same ending appears in several vowel forms. These unstressed suffix vowels sit at the ends of long words where fast podium speech weakens them, exactly where the grammar lives and lip-reading is hardest.

Consonant assimilation

  • Sounds that change where morphemes meet
  • As suffixes attach, Turkish consonants assimilate — a 'd' becomes a 't' after a voiceless sound, and other alternations ripple through the word. A deaf attendee tracking a term sees its consonants shift at the joins, so the same root looks different as it inflects through a technical argument.

Regional accents

  • Istanbul, Anatolia, and the Black Sea differ
  • A conference in Istanbul or Ankara draws speakers whose Turkish carries Anatolian, Aegean, or Black Sea (Trabzon) colouring — different vowels and, in some regions, dropped or altered consonants. A deaf attendee calibrated to standard Istanbul Turkish meets shifting speech from one presenter to the next.

Turkish–English code-switching

  • Technical English inside Turkish sentences
  • Turkish academic and business talks drop English terms into Turkish sentences constantly — a term of art in English mid-sentence, then back to Turkish. A deaf attendee lip-reading Turkish meets English phonology on the key vocabulary with no visual signal of the switch.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and professional access in Turkey

Hearing loss is a significant and under-counted issue in Turkey. Congenital hearing loss is relatively common — clinical series link a large share to familial and genetic causes, elevated in part by consanguinity — and against the global pattern in which around one in five people has some hearing loss, Turkey's population of roughly 85 million implies millions living with hearing difficulty. Newborn screening and rehabilitation services have expanded but remain uneven across the country's regions.

Turkey, and Istanbul in particular, has become a major hub for international congresses, technology summits, and industry events, hosted at large venues like the Istanbul Congress Center. These run on spoken Turkish delivered over PA systems, with English woven into technical sessions. Real-time Turkish 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 Turkish keynote and panel answer from any seat, record a dense session for the full transcript, and follow the conversations over Turkish tea — so a deaf professional in Istanbul or Ankara 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

"Turkish keynotes stack long agglutinated words, and from the back of the hall if I miss a suffix I lose the meaning. Captio AI captioned the talk from my seat and I recorded it for the transcript. I followed a full congress session for the first time."

Emre Y. 🇹🇷
emre.y***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Istanbul — academic researcher

"Tech talks mix Turkish and English on every technical point. Captio AI captioned both from my seat without me switching anything. I read the whole session and knew exactly what the launch meant for my work."

Zeynep A. 🇹🇷
zeynep.a***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ankara — industry conference attendee

"Panel Q&As are fast and speakers come from different regions, so the accents shift on the lips. Captio AI captioned every question from the floor. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Mert K. 🇹🇷
mert.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Izmir — 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 investor."

Elif S. 🇹🇷
elif.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Istanbul — startup founder

"Turkish keynotes stack long agglutinated words, and from the back of the hall if I miss a suffix I lose the meaning. Captio AI captioned the talk from my seat and I recorded it for the transcript. I followed a full congress session for the first time."

Emre Y. 🇹🇷
emre.y***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Istanbul — academic researcher

"Tech talks mix Turkish and English on every technical point. Captio AI captioned both from my seat without me switching anything. I read the whole session and knew exactly what the launch meant for my work."

Zeynep A. 🇹🇷
zeynep.a***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ankara — industry conference attendee

"Panel Q&As are fast and speakers come from different regions, so the accents shift on the lips. Captio AI captioned every question from the floor. As a panellist I answered what was actually asked instead of guessing."

Mert K. 🇹🇷
mert.k***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Izmir — 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 investor."

Elif S. 🇹🇷
elif.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Istanbul — startup founder

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every speaker in Turkish.

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