Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Live captions and productivity tool for everyday conversations

For deaf and hard of hearing people.

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Captio AI app showing live captions and translation

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Use Cases

Every situation covered

Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.

🏪Counter conversations

Pharmacies, post offices, shops, government offices. The person behind the counter speaks at their own pace and does not expect you to ask for a repeat. Captio AI shows you what they said before the moment passes.

🍽️Group conversations

Dinner tables, social gatherings, team lunches. Multiple people, fast exchanges, overlapping threads. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking so you follow without losing the conversation.

👋Talking to strangers

Asking for directions, chatting with a neighbor, meeting someone new. People who do not know to slow down or face you. Captio AI captions anyone who speaks near you — not just people you have already briefed.

Informal work moments

Hallway chats, kitchen catch-ups, quick questions between meetings. The moments everyone else absorbs automatically. Captio AI keeps you in those conversations too.

📋Appointments and admin

Doctors, dentists, government offices, bank branches. Fast speech, technical vocabulary, no repeats expected. Captio AI gives you a real-time transcript of everything said so you can follow and respond accurately.

🚉Getting around

Transport staff, ticket offices, asking for help in unfamiliar places. Situations where you need to understand the first time. Captio AI covers you anywhere speech happens without warning.

Captio AI in everyday use

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Why Captio AI

Built for conversations that don't wait

Captions as they speak, not after

Captio AI shows each word as it is spoken. You read what the person is saying while they are still saying it — not after they have finished and moved on.

No lip reading needed

You do not need to face the speaker or position yourself to see their mouth. Captio AI picks up speech from any direction — across a counter, at a table, in a busy street.

Works through background noise

Restaurants, pharmacies, busy streets, crowded waiting rooms. Captio AI separates speech from background noise so captions stay accurate where everyday conversations actually happen.

Follows any conversation

One person or six. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking at any moment — so you follow the thread at a dinner table or keep up with a counter exchange without losing track.

Any accent, any pace

People do not slow down or enunciate for you. Captio AI handles fast talkers, regional accents, and casual speech — the way people actually talk in real life.

Any language, no setup

When someone speaks a language you do not know, switch to Live Translator. They speak their language — you read in yours. No configuration needed. Works in 60+ languages.

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The Challenge

Everyday conversations are the hardest ones to access

Most deaf and hard of hearing people do not struggle primarily in hospitals or formal settings — those at least sometimes have accommodations. The real struggle is the everyday: the pharmacy counter, the colleague who asks a question while walking past, the dinner where everyone starts talking at once. Research tracking adults over eight years found that hearing loss is associated with 28% higher odds of social isolation (NCBI, 2024). That number is not driven by medical appointments. It is driven by the moments no one thinks to prepare for.

The effect builds quietly. A 2025 survey found that only 37% of deaf individuals could manage everyday tasks independently with minimal assistance — not complex medical tasks, but ordinary ones: errands, appointments, counter conversations (PR Newswire, 2025). Each of those tasks requires a negotiation most people around you are not even aware is happening. You ask for a repeat. You lean in. You guess. You nod when you are not sure. That is the baseline before the day has really started.

What accumulates is loneliness — but not the kind people usually talk about. Research in The Laryngoscope found that 38% of adults with hearing loss experience loneliness compared to 29% in the general population, and among those with moderate to severe hearing loss the figure rises to 69% (Döge et al., 2025). Researchers do not attribute this to the hearing loss itself. They attribute it to the communication barriers — to dinners where you follow half the table, to conversations that move too fast, to social settings where everyone else absorbs what is happening and you are working to keep up.

Deaf individuals are twice as likely to experience mental health issues compared to the general population (Inclusive ASL, 2023). The cause is not the hearing loss — it is the effort. Lip reading, guessing, asking for repeats, absorbing the social cost of all three, across every ordinary day. If you are reading this, you already know what that effort feels like. It is not a medical problem. It is an access problem. Captio AI is built to solve the access problem — so that every conversation, in any setting, is one you can fully be part of.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

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.

100% PRIVATE

Private by default

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My hearing started going last year. Captio AI means I can still have normal conversations without making it awkward."

James R. 🇦🇺
james.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Sydney

"Arabic conversations move fast. Captio AI keeps up. I use it for everything now."

Fatima A. 🇸🇦
fatima.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Riyadh

"I always had to ask people to repeat themselves. Now I just read. It is so much less exhausting."

Nina P. 🇸🇮
nina.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Ljubljana

"Captio AI handles fast conversational English and local accents accurately. I use it every day."

Daniel O. 🇳🇬
daniel.o***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Lagos

"My hearing started going last year. Captio AI means I can still have normal conversations without making it awkward."

James R. 🇦🇺
james.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Sydney

"Arabic conversations move fast. Captio AI keeps up. I use it for everything now."

Fatima A. 🇸🇦
fatima.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Riyadh

"I always had to ask people to repeat themselves. Now I just read. It is so much less exhausting."

Nina P. 🇸🇮
nina.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Ljubljana

"Captio AI handles fast conversational English and local accents accurately. I use it every day."

Daniel O. 🇳🇬
daniel.o***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Lagos

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow any conversation. In any situation.

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