Welsh live captions and productivity tool for conferences & events
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Welsh conferences & events
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Welsh 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 ICC Wales near Newport or a venue in Cardiff, the speaker is distant and the hall is loud. Point Captio AI toward the nearest PA speaker and read every word of the Welsh keynote from any seat.
At an academic conference — a research congress at Cardiff or Bangor University — presenters speak fast and mix in terminology. Captio AI captions in real time and transcribes for later review.
Industry events, technology summits, and public-sector conferences in Cardiff and across Wales carry content that affects your work. Captio AI captions every speaker so you follow the panel.
In a workshop or breakout, several voices contribute in a Welsh–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 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 a bilingual conference in Wales, sessions switch between Welsh and English. Live Translator and Live Captions cover both 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 Welsh is hard to understand
Consonant mutations
- The start of a word changes shape
- Welsh mutates the initial consonant of a word depending on grammar — soft, nasal, and aspirate mutations turn a 'p' into a 'b', a 'c' into a 'g' or 'ngh'. The word for a concept can begin differently from sentence to sentence, so a deaf attendee who lip-reads the base form finds the crucial first consonant swapped out in a keynote.
The ll and ch sounds
- Sounds English lacks, made without clear lip cues
- Welsh has the voiceless lateral 'll' and the fricative 'ch', sounds produced with the tongue and airflow rather than distinctive lip shapes. On a technical term or a Welsh place name over a conference PA, these sounds give a lip-reader almost nothing to work with.
North–south divide
- Welsh vowels shift between north and south
- Northern and southern Welsh differ mainly in the vowels: the north keeps sounds and diphthongs the south has merged. A conference may bring a Cardiff speaker and a Gwynedd speaker to the same panel, so a deaf attendee calibrated to one meets a noticeably different mouth on the other.
Welsh–English code-switching
- Two languages woven together in daily speech
- Bilingual Wales moves between Welsh and English constantly — a presenter can start a sentence in Welsh, drop into English for a technical term, and switch back. A deaf attendee reading lips has to track two phonological systems at once, with no visual marker of the switch.
Stress and clipped endings
- Penultimate stress leaves the last syllable weak
- Welsh stresses the second-to-last syllable of most words, leaving the final syllable weak and quickly spoken. In fast podium speech that unstressed ending clips further, so grammatical detail carried there fades on the lips just when a deaf attendee needs it.
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RNID represents over 900,000 people in Wales who are deaf, have hearing loss, or have tinnitus — a very large share of a nation of just over three million. Behind the statistics is a stark access gap: RNID Cymru has found that 35% of deaf and hard of hearing patients say they have been denied the communication support they needed, and 56% have had to rely on a partner, family member, or friend to relay information for them. Many of these people are the professionals who fill Welsh conference audiences.
Wales has taken sign language seriously in law — it now has its own legislation to protect and promote British Sign Language — but that has not closed the everyday communication gap at events. The academic congresses of Cardiff and Bangor, the technology and public-sector conferences held at venues like ICC Wales, run on spoken Welsh and English delivered over PA systems. Welsh place names and terms, dense with sounds English speakers rarely master, are exactly the words a deaf attendee most needs to catch, and real-time captioning of keynotes, panels, and Q&A is rarely provided.
Captio AI closes that gap. Point the phone toward the PA and read every Welsh and English 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 Cardiff or Bangor 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
"Welsh conference talks switch between Welsh and English on every technical point, delivered fast from a far stage. I caught fragments. Captio AI captioned both from my seat. I read the whole session and knew exactly what the announcements meant for my team."
"The mutations change the start of words on me and the ll and ch sounds give me nothing. Captio AI captioned the keynote accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."
"North and south Welsh vowels are different, and the panel had both, plus English terms dropped in. Captio AI captioned all of it and the audience questions. 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 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."
"Welsh conference talks switch between Welsh and English on every technical point, delivered fast from a far stage. I caught fragments. Captio AI captioned both from my seat. I read the whole session and knew exactly what the announcements meant for my team."
"The mutations change the start of words on me and the ll and ch sounds give me nothing. Captio AI captioned the keynote accurately and I recorded the session. I followed a full congress talk for the first time."
"North and south Welsh vowels are different, and the panel had both, plus English terms dropped in. Captio AI captioned all of it and the audience questions. 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 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."
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