Bulgarian live captions and productivity tool for doctor appointments
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Bulgarian doctor appointments
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Bulgarian speakers.
Follow what the doctor says in real time
- Captions appear word by word as they speak
- Handles medical terminology, drug names, and clinical language
- Place the phone on the desk — no setup needed
- Works in any consultation room, clinic, or hospital setting
When the doctor speaks another language
- Captions and translates in real time
- Follow your diagnosis in the language you understand best
- 60+ languages, no manual switching
- For foreign specialists, travel, or immigration settings
A full record of the consultation
- Record the appointment and upload it for a complete transcript
- Review instructions, drug names, and follow-up steps at home
- Share with a family member or carer if needed
- Works on any consultation recording
Key instructions extracted automatically
- Diagnosis, medication, and follow-up steps pulled from any transcript
- Organised into clear sections
- Nothing important missed or forgotten
- Works on any saved appointment recording
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Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
GP visits at a джипи (GP) or поликлиника, where appointments are short and the doctor often speaks while looking at the screen or typing notes.
Specialist consultations at a болница or specialist center, where medical terminology is dense and a referral may send you to a clinician from a different region with a distinct accent.
Pharmacy consultations at an аптека, where the pharmacist explains dosage, interactions, and side effects verbally — often quietly across the counter.
Dental appointments at a зъболекар, where you cannot see the dentist's face during treatment and verbal instructions continue throughout.
Mental health consultations with a психиатър or психолог, where the precision of every question and answer carries clinical weight.
Emergency and urgent care at спешна помощ, where staff move fast, speak at speed, and there is no time to arrange an interpreter.
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Built for the conversations where every word matters
Captions as the doctor speaks
Words appear on screen while the doctor is still talking. You read the diagnosis, drug name, or follow-up instruction at the same moment it is said — not after they have moved on.
Medical terminology handled accurately
Drug names, procedure names, clinical terms. Captio AI handles the vocabulary of a real consultation — not just everyday speech.
Review the appointment after
Record the consultation and upload it to Audio Transcription. Get a full written record of everything said — instructions, dosages, referrals — to review at home and share with a carer if needed.
Works in any clinical setting
Consultation rooms, hospital wards, A&E, dental chairs, pharmacy counters. Place the phone near the speaker and Captio AI captions whoever is talking.
Any language
For foreign-language doctors, specialists abroad, or appointments through an interpreter. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so you follow your diagnosis in the language you understand best.
100% private
Medical conversations are among the most sensitive there are. Captio AI processes audio in real time and discards it immediately. Nothing is recorded, stored, or shared.
Why Bulgarian is hard to understand
Palatalized consonants
- Soft consonants formed where the lips cannot show them
- Bulgarian pairs most consonants into hard and soft (palatalized) versions — the softening is made by lifting the middle of the tongue toward the palate, deep inside the mouth. That movement is invisible from the front, so a deaf patient lip-reading a doctor cannot tell a hard consonant from its soft partner, and the difference can change the word entirely.
Vowel reduction
- Unstressed vowels shrink and merge in fast speech
- In natural Bulgarian, unstressed 'a' and 'o' raise and reduce, and in eastern speech unstressed 'e' can shift toward 'i'. A doctor speaking quickly during a short appointment — one eye on the screen, typing notes — compresses these vowels until the endings that carry tense and agreement all but disappear from the lips.
Yat divide
- A Sofia GP and a Plovdiv specialist say the same word differently
- Bulgarian splits along the old 'yat' boundary: west of it people say 'mleko', east of it 'mlyako', and Rhodope speech differs again. A deaf patient calibrated to a western Sofia accent can be thrown by an eastern or Rhodope-accented clinician, and the referral system routinely sends patients across that line.
Latin–Bulgarian register
- Clinical terms switch between Latin and everyday Bulgarian
- Bulgarian doctors move between Latin- and Greek-derived medical terms and their plain Bulgarian equivalents without warning — naming the same condition twice in two registers. A deaf patient who knows the everyday word may not recognise the clinical one, especially when it arrives mid-sentence with no visible cue.
Fast clinical speech
- Consonant clusters run together at appointment pace
- Bulgarian stacks dense consonant clusters, and at the speed of a rushed consultation they assimilate and blur. In a setting where a single misheard syllable can change a dosage or a diagnosis, a deaf patient following the lips alone loses exactly the words that matter most.
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Download on theApp Store120,000 people with hearing loss. A sign-language law that barely reaches the clinic.
Social research by the European Union of the Deaf counted around 120,000 people in Bulgaria with a hearing disability, of whom only about 50,000 use sign language, and studies put the share of the population fluent in Bulgarian Sign Language at under one percent. In a country of some 6.4 million with one of Europe's oldest and fastest-shrinking populations, that is a large group whose access to a consultation depends on catching the spoken word.
Bulgaria took a historic step in January 2021, when Parliament passed the Bulgarian Sign Language Act recognising the language in its own right and granting rights to free interpretation. But the guarantees are strongest in education and public administration, and clinical interpreting remains inconsistent — most deaf Bulgarians are born to hearing families, few doctors are trained to accommodate a deaf patient, and a same-day interpreter at a GP surgery or an аптека is the exception rather than the rule.
The result is a population that systematically receives less information about its own health — postponing appointments, bringing a relative to translate, or leaving with instructions half understood. Captio AI closes that gap: point the phone at the doctor, the pharmacist, or the nurse at спешна помощ, and read Bulgarian captions in real time, whatever the regional accent and without arranging anything in advance.
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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.
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People love Captio AI
"My cardiologist types through the whole appointment and I was missing half of what he said about my medication. Now I read every word as he speaks and I confirm the dosage back to him."
"A specialist from the east said 'mlyako' where my Sofia doctor says 'mleko' and I lost the thread completely. Captio AI captions the dialogue whatever the accent. I finally follow the consultation."
"The аптека was the worst — the pharmacist explaining interactions quietly across the counter. Now I read the instructions as she speaks instead of asking her to write everything down."
"At спешна помощ last winter I had no idea what the nurse was telling me about my results. Captio AI captions fast clinical Bulgarian in real time. It changed what I can understand in a hospital."
"My cardiologist types through the whole appointment and I was missing half of what he said about my medication. Now I read every word as he speaks and I confirm the dosage back to him."
"A specialist from the east said 'mlyako' where my Sofia doctor says 'mleko' and I lost the thread completely. Captio AI captions the dialogue whatever the accent. I finally follow the consultation."
"The аптека was the worst — the pharmacist explaining interactions quietly across the counter. Now I read the instructions as she speaks instead of asking her to write everything down."
"At спешна помощ last winter I had no idea what the nurse was telling me about my results. Captio AI captions fast clinical Bulgarian in real time. It changed what I can understand in a hospital."
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