Live captions and productivity tool for communicating with deaf & HoH
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow communicating with deaf & HoH
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing people.
You speak. They read.
- Your words appear on their screen word by word
- No sign language required from you
- Works at home, at work, anywhere
- Any accent, any pace
When language is also a barrier
- You speak your language, they read in theirs
- Translates in real time as you speak
- 60+ languages, no setup
- Handles mid-sentence switches
Save the conversation for them
- Record and transcribe any exchange
- They can review everything at their own pace
- Organised by speaker
- Any length, any format
Make sure nothing important was missed
- Key points extracted from any transcript
- Useful after appointments, meetings, or important conversations
- Organised into clear sections
- Works on any saved recording
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Every situation covered
Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
Dinners, catch-ups, family gatherings. You speak at your normal pace and your deaf or hard of hearing family member reads everything in real time — no need to slow down or repeat yourself.
Desk conversations, quick questions, hallway chats. The informal exchanges that make up most of a working day. You talk normally and Captio AI makes sure your deaf or hard of hearing colleague follows every word.
When your partner is deaf or hard of hearing and you are not. You speak naturally, they read. No more typing on phones between you, no more frustration on either side.
Everyday home life — questions across the room, conversations over the TV, morning exchanges. Captio AI covers the low-stakes moments that add up to connection over time.
When a deaf or hard of hearing person meets someone who has never communicated with them before. You set up Captio AI and the conversation starts without any awkward briefing.
Groups where some people are deaf or hard of hearing and some are not. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking so every member of the group is fully included.
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You talk. They follow. No adjustment needed.
You speak naturally
No slowing down, no special phrasing, no training required. Captio AI handles everything — you just talk the way you always do.
They read as you speak
Your words appear on their screen word by word while you are still talking. Not a summary after — the full sentence, in real time.
Works wherever you both are
Living rooms, offices, restaurants, social gatherings. No venue setup, no special conditions. Captio AI works anywhere you have a conversation.
No sign language from either side
You do not need to learn anything new. Neither do they. Captio AI bridges the gap without requiring any change to how either of you communicates.
Works with how you actually speak
Fast, accented, casual. Captio AI handles real speech — not just slow, clear dictation. You do not need to perform clarity for it to work.
Private by default
Your conversations are never recorded, stored, or shared. Audio is processed in real time and discarded immediately — nothing is kept.
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The adjustment burden always falls on the wrong side
Between 90 and 97% of deaf children are born to hearing parents with little or no experience of sign language — which means the communication gap starts at home, before anywhere else (BMC Public Health, 2025). The people closest to a deaf or hard of hearing person are often the least equipped to communicate with them. Not because they do not care. Because nobody showed them how.
A 2025 survey found that 83% of hard of hearing respondents experienced frustration when trying to communicate with family or friends (PR Newswire, 2025). Family and friends — not strangers, not officials. The people trying hardest to connect are creating the most friction, without realising it. That gap does real damage to relationships over time.
The adjustment almost always falls on the deaf or hard of hearing person. They ask for repeats. They position themselves to lip-read. They piece together what they missed and hope they got it right. Meanwhile, you speak normally, unaware that what felt like an easy conversation was, for them, a sustained act of effort. That asymmetry is the problem — and it is one you can fix.
Captio AI is built to remove it. You speak naturally. The deaf or hard of hearing person next to you reads in real time. No training required, no adjustment needed, no burden placed on either side. A conversation that works for both of you — which is all it was ever supposed to be.
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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.
Private by default
Captio AI supports 60+ languages
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Frequently asked questions
Make every conversation work — for both sides.
Captio AI is free to start
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