Urdu live captions and productivity tool for conferences & events
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Urdu conferences & events
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Urdu 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 in Karachi, Lahore, or Islamabad, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Urdu keynote from any seat.
At an academic conference — a research congress at a Lahore university or a scientific meeting in Islamabad — presenters speak fast and mix in dense terminology. Captio AI captions in real time and transcribes for later review.
Industry events and professional seminars in Karachi carry content that affects your work directly. Captio AI captions every speaker and panellist so you follow the whole session.
In a workshop or breakout, several voices contribute in an Urdu–English 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 chai 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, sessions switch between Urdu, English, and other languages. 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 Urdu is hard to understand
Aspirated stops
- The puff of air that no lip shows
- Urdu contrasts aspirated and unaspirated stops — p/pʰ, t/tʰ, k/kʰ and more — where the difference is a puff of air with no visible lip cue. In a technical keynote, two terms that differ only in aspiration look identical on a distant presenter's mouth.
Retroflex consonants
- Tongue-curl sounds invisible from the audience
- Urdu's retroflex stops — ʈ, ɖ — are made with the tongue curled back and give no signal at the lips. A deaf attendee watching a presenter sees the same shape for a dental and a retroflex consonant, two different sounds that change the word.
Persian–Arabic sounds
- Borrowed consonants in formal vocabulary
- Formal Urdu draws heavily on Persian and Arabic vocabulary carrying sounds like q, x, and ɣ made far back in the mouth. These appear in exactly the elevated, literary words a keynote reaches for — and they produce little to nothing a lip-reader can use.
Register gap
- Literary podium Urdu versus everyday speech
- Prepared Urdu talks reach for a high, Persianised literary register quite different from the everyday Urdu — closer to spoken Hindustani — that a deaf attendee lip-reads best. The keynote and the corridor conversation can feel like two different varieties of the language.
Urdu–English code-switching
- Technical English inside Urdu sentences
- Pakistani academic and professional speech mixes Urdu and English constantly — 'iska implementation', 'yeh dataset'. A deaf attendee lip-reading Urdu must switch to English phonology on the technical terms, then back again, with no visual signal of the switch.
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Pakistan carries a heavy hearing loss burden: an estimated 14.5 million Pakistanis live with hearing loss, and deaf people make up around 7.4% of the country's disabled population. A large share is congenital and severe — roughly 70% of cases — linked in part to high rates of consanguineous marriage, and late identification is common because newborn hearing screening is not widespread. Many of these people reach professional life with hearing loss that was diagnosed late and supported little.
Pakistan's academic and professional conference culture — the university congresses of Lahore and Islamabad, the industry seminars of Karachi — runs on spoken Urdu and English delivered over PA systems. Real-time Urdu captioning of keynotes, panels, and Q&A is essentially never provided, and where any accessibility exists it does not reach the breakout sessions and networking that build careers. A deaf professional pays the same registration and receives a fraction of the content.
Captio AI closes that gap. Point the phone toward the PA and read every Urdu 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 Karachi or Lahore 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.
Private by default
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People love Captio AI
"The keynote was high literary Urdu, full of Persian vocabulary, 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."
"Speakers mix Urdu and English on every technical point. Captio AI captioned both together without me doing anything. I read the whole seminar and understood exactly what the new framework meant for my team."
"Panel Q&As are fast and the aspirated and retroflex sounds give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captioned every answer as it was given. As a panellist I could read the audience questions and respond to what was actually asked."
"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."
"The keynote was high literary Urdu, full of Persian vocabulary, 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."
"Speakers mix Urdu and English on every technical point. Captio AI captioned both together without me doing anything. I read the whole seminar and understood exactly what the new framework meant for my team."
"Panel Q&As are fast and the aspirated and retroflex sounds give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captioned every answer as it was given. As a panellist I could read the audience questions and respond to what was actually asked."
"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."
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