Slovenian live captions and productivity tool for communicating with deaf & hoh
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Everything you need to follow Slovenian communicating with deaf & hoh
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Slovenian 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 Slovenian family dinner where grandparents speak a village dialect and parents use Standard Slovenian. The gap between the two varieties is enough to challenge any lip reader. Captio AI keeps up with every voice.
A Slovenian household where conversations happen throughout the day — morning exchanges, remarks across the room, quick questions to hearing family members. Captio AI keeps a deaf or hard of hearing person in those moments.
At home with a hearing partner whose family speaks a Carinthian, Styrian, or Littoral regional dialect significantly different from Standard Slovenian. Captio AI captions their speech correctly so home life does not require extra effort.
Meeting a partner's family from another region of Slovenia, where the dialect sounds nothing like the standard Slovenian taught in school. Captio AI captures the conversation in real time.
A Slovenian outdoor gathering, local market, or community celebration where people from different parts of the country mix dialects. Captio AI captions the conversation so a deaf or hard of hearing person is part of it.
Spontaneous exchanges at a Slovenian corner shop, pharmacy, or bus stop. Captio AI captions what the person is saying in real time.
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first word appears as you speak
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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 Slovenian is hard to understand
32 dialects / 76 sub-groups
- No other Slavic language has more dialect diversity per speaker — every region sounds different
- Slovenian has 32 dialects further divided into 76 sub-groups — more internal dialectal diversity than any other Slavic language relative to its speaker count. Standard Slovenian is used in schools and media, but most Slovenians speak a regional dialect at home. A deaf or hard of hearing person who has calibrated lip-reading from Standard Slovenian encounters a substantially different phonological profile in virtually every village.
Tonemic varieties
- A central dialect band has phonemic tone — the same word has different pitch in different regions
- A north-south band of Slovenian dialects — Upper Carniolan, Lower Carniolan, and parts of Carinthian — has phonemic tonal distinctions where pitch contour changes word meaning. These tone distinctions are purely acoustic. The rest of Slovenia uses non-tonal varieties with different stress patterns. A deaf person navigates this without knowing which type a speaker uses.
Standard vs dialect gap
- The distance between Standard Slovenian and regional dialects is extreme by European standards
- The distance between Standard Slovenian and regional dialects is extreme. A hearing person who moves to a new region adjusts easily. A deaf person who has built a lip-reading vocabulary from Standard Slovenian faces effectively a new phonological profile in each regional dialect — different vowel qualities, different consonant realizations, different prosodic patterns.
Rapid colloquial reduction
- Everyday Slovenian spoken at home drops syllables and contracts verb forms at speed
- Everyday Slovenian spoken at home drops unstressed syllables, contracts verb forms, and runs words together at natural conversational speed. The gap between formal broadcast Slovenian and fast home conversation is large enough to create comprehension breakdowns even for experienced lip readers.
Carinthian and Styrian vowel shifts
- Border dialects have vowel sounds absent from Standard Slovenian
- The Carinthian dialects near the Austrian border and the Styrian dialects have vowel shifts that produce sounds absent from Standard Slovenian. These vowel positions create different lip profiles for words a deaf person expects to recognize — making lip-reading in a Carinthian family home a different task from lip-reading in Ljubljana.
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Download on theApp StoreSlovenia was the first country to constitutionally recognize both sign language and the deafblind language — yet 1,000 deaf users and 75,000 hearing aid users still face gaps in everyday informal communication.
Slovenia has approximately 1,000 deaf people who use Slovenian Sign Language and about 75,000 people who use hearing aids, according to data reported by Slovenian government and deaf community organizations. On 4 June 2021, Slovenia's National Assembly unanimously amended the Constitution to enshrine the right to use and develop Slovenian Sign Language — making Slovenia the first country in the world to constitutionally recognize both its sign language and the language of the deafblind simultaneously.
Despite this historic constitutional milestone, the 1,000 people who rely on Slovenian Sign Language still face a fundamental gap between formal recognition and everyday informal communication. Constitutional recognition covers the right to use sign language in legal and institutional settings. It does not extend to family dinner tables, neighbourhood conversations, or the spontaneous daily exchanges that make up most of human communication — particularly acute in a country with 32 dialects where what happens in the family kitchen often sounds nothing like what the Constitution was written in.
The 75,000 hearing aid users in Slovenia represent a much larger group navigating daily life with hearing loss but without sign language — relying on residual hearing, lip-reading, and context. For these individuals, the challenge is not interpreter access but the difficulty of following natural fast speech across Slovenian's extraordinary dialectal diversity, where the gap between what a lip reader has learned and what a family member actually sounds like is particularly wide.
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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 is from Carinthia and speaks a dialect that sounds almost nothing like Standard Slovenian. Captio AI reads their speech correctly and family dinners are easy now."
"My partner's family speaks Styrian dialect at home — vowels shifted from everything I learned. Captio AI reads their speech correctly and visiting the family is no longer exhausting."
"Relatives from the Primorska region bring a dialect with Italian influence. Captio AI reads them correctly and I am part of every family gathering now."
"Office conversations happen fast in colloquial Ljubljana Slovenian. Captio AI keeps me in those conversations without anyone needing to repeat."
"My family is from Carinthia and speaks a dialect that sounds almost nothing like Standard Slovenian. Captio AI reads their speech correctly and family dinners are easy now."
"My partner's family speaks Styrian dialect at home — vowels shifted from everything I learned. Captio AI reads their speech correctly and visiting the family is no longer exhausting."
"Relatives from the Primorska region bring a dialect with Italian influence. Captio AI reads them correctly and I am part of every family gathering now."
"Office conversations happen fast in colloquial Ljubljana Slovenian. Captio AI keeps me in those conversations without anyone needing to repeat."
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