Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian communicating with deaf & hoh
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Bulgarian speakers.
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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Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
A Bulgarian family meal where multiple generations talk over each other — grandparents in Sofia dialect, parents in standard Bulgarian, kids mixing in English words. Captio AI keeps up with every voice.
In a Bulgarian office where conversations shift between formal standard Bulgarian and regional accents, Captio AI lets a deaf colleague follow hallway talk, team check-ins, and the casual banter that hearing colleagues take for granted.
A hearing partner who grew up with Sofia or Plovdiv speech habits can speak naturally. Captio AI captions every word in real time, so conversation at home is never one-sided.
Whether it is morning small talk, a shared task, or a spontaneous question from the next room, Captio AI lets a deaf or hard of hearing flatmate stay part of everyday home life in Bulgaria.
Meeting a hearing Bulgarian friend, new neighbour, or family member for the first time. Captio AI captures their speech in real time so the introduction does not have to be slowed down or repeated.
At a Bulgarian family gathering, village celebration, or group dinner where multiple people speak at once, Captio AI captions the conversation so a deaf or hard of hearing person is part of the room.
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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.
Why Bulgarian is hard to understand
Vowel reduction
- Unstressed vowels collapse in casual speech
- Bulgarian unstressed /o/ and /e/ reduce dramatically in a pattern called akanye — so the same written word sounds different depending on stress position. Lip readers who match lip shapes to written letters find the relationship breaks down in natural, fast Bulgarian conversation.
Palatalization pairs
- Soft and hard consonant pairs look identical on the lips
- Bulgarian has hard and soft (palatalized) versions of most consonants, with the difference made by the tongue arching toward the palate — not by any lip movement. Two words that differ only in palatalization are visually indistinguishable when lip-read.
Dialect gap
- Eastern and western Bulgarian follow different vowel rules
- The boundary between western and eastern Bulgarian dialects runs through the middle of the country and produces sharply different vowel and liquid-consonant realizations. A lip reader calibrated to Sofia speech encounters unfamiliar patterns from Vidin or Varna speakers.
Consonant clusters
- Complex onset clusters lose sounds in casual speech
- Bulgarian permits dense consonant clusters at word beginnings. In fast everyday speech, consonants within the cluster drop, leaving lips at a different position than the written form predicts — and no vowel to anchor lip movement.
Script disconnect
- Cyrillic text does not map to reduced casual vowels
- Cyrillic spelling does not reflect the reduced, casual vowel sounds of spoken Bulgarian. A deaf or hard of hearing person who uses written Bulgarian as a reference for lip-reading finds the gap between text and everyday speech wider than expected.
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According to data compiled by the European Union of the Deaf, approximately 120,000 people in Bulgaria have a hearing disability, yet only around 50,000 are able to communicate through Bulgarian Sign Language (BulSL). The gap between those living with hearing loss and those who have access to sign language means tens of thousands navigate everyday life — family conversations, healthcare, administrative offices — without any formal communication support.
Bulgarian Sign Language has no official legal recognition. Unlike several neighbouring EU countries that have codified their sign languages as linguistic rights, Bulgaria has no law granting BulSL protected status, no government body responsible for interpreter training, and no nationally funded interpreter service. Obtaining a qualified interpreter requires navigating a patchwork of charity organisations and informal networks.
Social integration for deaf and hard of hearing Bulgarians remains limited. Research reviewing the situation of deaf and hard of hearing people in Bulgaria highlights persistently low rates of tertiary education completion and high unemployment compared to the hearing population — outcomes directly linked to the absence of accessible communication support in educational settings and workplaces. The 2013 Deaflympics in Sofia raised public awareness of deaf culture, but legislative change has not followed.
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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
"My family talks fast in Sofia Bulgarian — vowels reduce, everyone overlaps. I was catching fragments. Captio AI reads their Bulgarian in real time and I follow the full table conversation now."
"My partner grew up speaking Plovdiv Bulgarian and the vowel patterns were never what I expected. Captio AI reads his speech correctly and our evenings at home are easy."
"Office conversations happen in the corridor and around the coffee machine — fast, reduced Bulgarian. Captio AI keeps me in those conversations without anyone needing to write things down."
"Family gatherings mix Sofia standard with dialects from the countryside and it was always overwhelming. Captio AI captions the whole room and I am part of the conversation instead of watching it."
"My family talks fast in Sofia Bulgarian — vowels reduce, everyone overlaps. I was catching fragments. Captio AI reads their Bulgarian in real time and I follow the full table conversation now."
"My partner grew up speaking Plovdiv Bulgarian and the vowel patterns were never what I expected. Captio AI reads his speech correctly and our evenings at home are easy."
"Office conversations happen in the corridor and around the coffee machine — fast, reduced Bulgarian. Captio AI keeps me in those conversations without anyone needing to write things down."
"Family gatherings mix Sofia standard with dialects from the countryside and it was always overwhelming. Captio AI captions the whole room and I am part of the conversation instead of watching it."
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