Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Live captions and productivity tool for communicating with deaf & HoH

For deaf and hard of hearing people.

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Captio AI app showing live captions and translation

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Use Cases

Every situation covered

Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.

👨‍👩‍👧Family conversations

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.

💼As a hearing colleague

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.

❤️Partners and relationships

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.

🏠Living together

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.

🤝Introducing someone new

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.

👥Mixed group settings

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.

Captio AI in everyday use

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Why Captio AI

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 Challenge

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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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

"My partner is deaf. Captio AI means I can just talk normally and she reads everything. No more typing on phones between us."

Tom A. 🇬🇧
tom.a***@gmail.com
Hearing, partner is deaf, Manchester

"My son has been deaf since birth. Captio AI is the first thing that lets me just speak to him without both of us working around it."

Claire D. 🇫🇷
claire.d***@gmail.com
Hearing, mother of deaf son, Lyon

"My colleague is hard of hearing. I used to slow down and over-enunciate which felt patronising. Now I just talk normally and he reads along."

Marcus R. 🇩🇪
marcus.r***@gmail.com
Hearing, works with deaf colleague, Hamburg

"I set up Captio AI before we meet and forget it is even there. My friend gets everything. We finally just have normal conversations."

Sara J. 🇸🇪
sara.j***@gmail.com
Hearing, best friend is hard of hearing, Stockholm

"My partner is deaf. Captio AI means I can just talk normally and she reads everything. No more typing on phones between us."

Tom A. 🇬🇧
tom.a***@gmail.com
Hearing, partner is deaf, Manchester

"My son has been deaf since birth. Captio AI is the first thing that lets me just speak to him without both of us working around it."

Claire D. 🇫🇷
claire.d***@gmail.com
Hearing, mother of deaf son, Lyon

"My colleague is hard of hearing. I used to slow down and over-enunciate which felt patronising. Now I just talk normally and he reads along."

Marcus R. 🇩🇪
marcus.r***@gmail.com
Hearing, works with deaf colleague, Hamburg

"I set up Captio AI before we meet and forget it is even there. My friend gets everything. We finally just have normal conversations."

Sara J. 🇸🇪
sara.j***@gmail.com
Hearing, best friend is hard of hearing, Stockholm

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Make every conversation work — for both sides.

Captio AI is free to start

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