Serbian live captions and productivity tool for communicating with deaf & hoh
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Everything you need to follow Serbian communicating with deaf & hoh
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Serbian 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 Serbian family table where grandparents speak Ekavian, relatives from Bosnia use Ijekavian, and younger family members mix in English or colloquial slang. Captio AI keeps up across all variations.
Serbian office conversations shift between formal standard and casual Belgradian speech. Captio AI lets a deaf colleague follow team meetings, corridor discussions, and the informal talk that shapes workplace relationships.
A hearing partner who grew up speaking Ijekavian or with a regional Serbian accent can speak at their natural pace. Captio AI captions every word in real time, so home conversation is never a one-way street.
Morning questions, shared household tasks, and spontaneous remarks from another room — Captio AI keeps a deaf or hard of hearing person connected to everyday home life in a Serbian-speaking household.
Meeting a hearing Serbian relative, neighbour, or friend for the first time. Captio AI captures their speech in real time so the introduction does not need to be repeated or slowed down.
At a Serbian slava celebration, family gathering, or neighbourhood meal where voices overlap and conversation moves fast, Captio AI captions the room so a deaf or hard of hearing person stays in it.
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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 Serbian is hard to understand
Pitch accent
- Four tonal accents, all invisible on the lips
- Serbian has four phonemic pitch accents — short rising, short falling, long rising, long falling — that distinguish word pairs such as 'grad' (city) and 'grâd' (hail), or 'lûk' (bow) and 'lùk' (onion). The lip shapes are identical. A deaf or hard of hearing lip reader receives no visual signal for distinctions that are entirely acoustic.
Ekavian–Ijekavian split
- Two phonological systems for the same written word
- The same Serbian word is pronounced differently depending on whether the speaker is from Serbia (Ekavian: 'mleko') or Bosnia and Republika Srpska (Ijekavian: 'mlijeko'). A lip reader who has learned one reflex encounters unfamiliar patterns from the other, with no warning and no visual cue that the system has changed.
Syllabic consonants
- Syllables built only from consonants — no lip-readable vowel
- Serbian allows syllabic /r/ as a vowel nucleus — 'krv' (blood), 'trg' (square), 'prst' (finger) contain no vowel phoneme at all. An entire syllable plays out in consonant positions with nothing on the lips to anchor lip reading.
Final devoicing
- Voiced consonants devoice at word boundaries — auditory only
- At word boundaries, voiced consonants in Serbian systematically devoice — 'rob' sounds like 'rop' in isolation. These minimal pairs are distinguishable only by hearing, as the lip positions for voiced and voiceless stops are identical.
Colloquial reduction
- Casual Belgrade speech compresses at speed
- Everyday Belgrade conversation drops syllables, contracts pronouns, and runs words together. The spoken stream that hearing native speakers fill in automatically arrives as reduced shapes on the lips that do not match standard written Serbian.
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The Serbian parliament passed the Law on the Use of Sign Language in April 2015, with 164 of 166 members voting in favour — making Serbian Sign Language (SZJ) one of the more recently legally recognised sign languages in Europe. But legal recognition has not translated into accessible daily life. Research into SZJ in deaf education documents a persistent discrepancy between what the law promises and what schools deliver: teachers in inclusive settings are rarely trained in sign language, and students who are deaf or hard of hearing continue to navigate classrooms without genuine language access.
The gap between policy and practice extends beyond education. Serbia has no nationally funded interpreter service covering everyday situations — visits to administrative offices, medical appointments, community events. Deaf Serbians who need an interpreter must source one privately or rely on informal networks of deaf community organisations operating on limited budgets.
Global Burden of Disease methodology (PMC7703874) provides a model for estimating hereditary hearing loss prevalence applicable across Southeastern Europe. While country-specific prevalence data for Serbia is limited, the GBD 2019 study (PMC7960691) estimates that over 1.5 billion people globally live with hearing loss — and in a country of seven million, tens of thousands navigate daily life without the interpreter access the law nominally guarantees.
[1]Serbian Sign Language: officially recognised, yet not used in deaf education – ResearchGate
[2]Deaf History – 2015: Serbia, Legal Recognition of Serbian Sign Language
[3]New approach to estimating hereditary hearing loss prevalence from census data – PMC7703874
[4]GBD 2019 Hearing Loss Collaborators – global hearing loss burden / PMC7960691
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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 Ekavian Belgrade Serbian — pitch accents I cannot see, syllables that drop. Captio AI reads their speech correctly and I follow the full table conversation now."
"My partner grew up speaking Ijekavian and the vowel patterns were always different from what I expected. Captio AI reads his Serbian correctly — right words, right meaning — and our evenings are easy."
"Office conversations happen in the corridor at speed. Captio AI keeps me in those conversations without anyone needing to write things down or repeat themselves."
"A slava has twenty people talking at once in fast Serbian. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking and I am part of the celebration instead of watching it happen around me."
"My family talks fast in Ekavian Belgrade Serbian — pitch accents I cannot see, syllables that drop. Captio AI reads their speech correctly and I follow the full table conversation now."
"My partner grew up speaking Ijekavian and the vowel patterns were always different from what I expected. Captio AI reads his Serbian correctly — right words, right meaning — and our evenings are easy."
"Office conversations happen in the corridor at speed. Captio AI keeps me in those conversations without anyone needing to write things down or repeat themselves."
"A slava has twenty people talking at once in fast Serbian. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking and I am part of the celebration instead of watching it happen around me."
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