Gujarati live captions and productivity tool for doctor appointments
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Gujarati doctor appointments
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Gujarati 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 private clinic in Ahmedabad, Surat, or Vadodara, where the doctor speaks quickly in a mix of Gujarati and English and expects the patient to follow without repetition.
Specialist consultations at Civil Hospital Ahmedabad or a private specialist centre, where clinical terminology is dense and appointments move at speed.
Pharmacy consultations at a medical store, where the pharmacist explains dosage, drug interactions, and storage instructions verbally across a counter.
Dental appointments where the dentist explains the procedure and aftercare plan between treatments, often speaking quickly before moving to the next patient.
Mental health sessions with a psychiatrist or counsellor, where the precision of each clinical exchange carries direct weight.
Emergency room visits where staff speak fast in mixed Gujarati and Hindi, family members are present, and the clinical information is urgent.
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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 Gujarati is hard to understand
Breathy voiced stops
- Gujarati's breathy plosives are invisible but change every word
- Gujarati has a four-way phonemic distinction in stop consonants including breathy voiced stops (bh, dh, gh, jh) produced with a breathy voice quality no lip-reader can detect. Words differing only in the breathy vs plain voiced distinction look identical on the lips but mean completely different things. In a clinical setting where drug names and body parts use these contrasts, a lip-reading patient cannot recover the distinction.
Nasalised vowels
- Phonemic nasalisation is invisible on lips but changes meaning
- Gujarati has contrastive nasalised vowels — the difference between a nasal and oral vowel is entirely in the nasal passage, with no visible lip or jaw movement to help a lip-reader. A clinical instruction where a nasalised vowel distinguishes a word from its non-nasalised pair produces zero visual signal for a deaf or hard of hearing patient.
Sanskrit clinical register
- Formal Gujarati in clinical settings uses Sanskrit vocabulary patients may not know
- Doctors in Gujarat shift between colloquial Gujarati and a formal Sanskrit-influenced register for clinical explanations. Terms for organs, diseases, and procedures carry Sanskrit roots that differ entirely from everyday Gujarati words for the same concepts — a deaf patient who knows their body in everyday language may not recognise the clinical name a doctor uses.
Three-language code-switching
- A consultation switches between Gujarati, Hindi, and English mid-sentence
- In Gujarat state, doctors code-switch between Gujarati, Hindi, and English throughout a consultation. Drug names are English, anatomical terms may be Hindi or Gujarati, and the explanatory frame is Gujarati. For a deaf patient calibrated to Gujarati, the constant switch is disorienting — and each switch requires recalibration to recognise what language they are even reading.
UK diaspora accent variation
- Gujarati-speaking patients in the UK encounter additional accent layers
- In the UK, Gujarati-speaking patients may see NHS clinicians who speak diaspora Gujarati shaped by decades in Leicester, London, or Birmingham — with shortened vowels, different prosody, and different code-switching patterns with British English. This creates a gap between what a deaf patient learned to lip-read at home and what they encounter in a UK clinical consultation.
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Download on theApp Store63 million with hearing impairment in India. Gujarat's deaf community navigating a system built for hearing patients.
India has approximately 63 million people with significant auditory impairment — the second-largest hearing loss burden of any country globally. Gujarat, with a population of more than 70 million, holds a proportionate share of this burden, concentrated in its large industrial workforce and elderly agricultural communities, both of which face high rates of noise-induced and age-related hearing loss. More than 27,000 children are born deaf in India each year, with neonatal hearing screening remaining inconsistent across Gujarat's rural and semi-urban areas.
The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 legally recognised Indian Sign Language and mandated accessibility in healthcare. In Gujarat, however, the gap between law and clinical practice is wide. A 2021 analysis in the NLIU Law Review found that healthcare facilities carry no rule requiring ISL-trained staff, and that state registries of certified interpreters on call for hospitals remain aspirational. Gujarati deaf communities rely on family members or written notes to navigate clinical consultations — neither of which captures the speed and vocabulary of a real medical appointment.
For Gujarati-speaking deaf communities in the UK, the NHS Equality Act 2010 creates a separate legal framework, but implementation is similarly patchy. The Gujarati diaspora — concentrated in Leicester, Harrow, and Wembley — encounters a dual challenge: navigating NHS bureaucracy in English while needing clinical explanations in Gujarati. Captio AI captions Gujarati speech in real time — at the medical store, the specialist clinic, and the emergency room — wherever the consultation happens.
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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 GP doesn't speak Gujarati and I miss clinical terms in English. I put Captio AI on the desk and read the consultation in real time. First time I left an NHS appointment fully understanding my prescription."
"My cardiologist switches between Gujarati and English for every drug name. I was missing the English parts entirely. Captio AI captions both languages in the same stream. I read my treatment plan as the doctor described it."
"The pharmacist speaks very fast and gives instructions I need to follow exactly. Now I read them in real time and take a screenshot before I leave. I haven't made a dosage error since I started using Captio AI."
"My psychiatrist uses formal Gujarati vocabulary I don't always catch. The sessions matter too much to guess. Captio AI captions everything and I engage fully in my own mental health care for the first time."
"My GP doesn't speak Gujarati and I miss clinical terms in English. I put Captio AI on the desk and read the consultation in real time. First time I left an NHS appointment fully understanding my prescription."
"My cardiologist switches between Gujarati and English for every drug name. I was missing the English parts entirely. Captio AI captions both languages in the same stream. I read my treatment plan as the doctor described it."
"The pharmacist speaks very fast and gives instructions I need to follow exactly. Now I read them in real time and take a screenshot before I leave. I haven't made a dosage error since I started using Captio AI."
"My psychiatrist uses formal Gujarati vocabulary I don't always catch. The sessions matter too much to guess. Captio AI captions everything and I engage fully in my own mental health care for the first time."
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