Belarusian live captions and productivity tool for everyday conversations
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Belarusian everyday conversations
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Belarusian speakers.
Captions any conversation in real time
- Word by word, as the person speaks
- Works in noisy places — counters, streets, busy rooms
- Any accent, any pace
- No lip reading needed
Everyday conversations in any language
- Translates as they speak, not after
- Each person speaks their own language
- Handles mid-sentence switches
- 60+ languages, no setup
Save any conversation for later
- Record and get the full transcript
- Organized by speaker
- Read, copy, search, share
- Any language, any audio
Key points from any exchange
- Important points extracted automatically
- Works on any saved transcript
- Organized into clear sections
- Nothing gets missed
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Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
Apteka counter, poshta window, supermarket checkout, administration desk. Staff speak fast in Belarusian or Russian and move on. Captio AI shows what they said before the moment passes.
Family dinner, Kupalle gathering, birthday celebration with extended family. Multiple generations, Belarusian mixing with Russian in everyday speech. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking.
Asking for directions on the street, chatting with a neighbour in the padyezd, getting help at a local shop. People who speak at full conversational pace. Captio AI captions anyone near you.
Tea break chat in the office, a quick question across the floor, catch-up before a meeting. The moments Belarusian workplaces run on. Captio AI keeps you in those conversations.
Poliklinika reception, administrative service window, bank branch, post office. Fast Belarusian or Russian, sometimes formal vocabulary, no repeat expected. Captio AI transcribes everything said.
Bus and tram announcements in Minsk, asking at a train station, taxi driver conversation. Situations where you need to understand fast. Captio AI covers you anywhere.
Most accurate and fastest models
word accuracy
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first word appears as you speak
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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.
Why Belarusian is hard to understand
Highest genetic deafness rate
- Belarus has the world's highest carrier frequency of the 35delG GJB2 deafness mutation
- A PMC genetic study found that the carrier frequency of the 35delG GJB2 mutation — the most common genetic cause of congenital sensorineural hearing loss — is higher in the Belarusian population than in any other country studied. This means that hereditary deafness rates in Belarus are structurally elevated compared to all European peers, creating a larger deaf and hard of hearing community per capita than the country's health infrastructure is designed to serve.
Trasianka code-mixing
- Everyday Belarusian conversation mixes Belarusian and Russian in an unpredictable blend called trasianka
- Trasianka is the common mixed speech of everyday Belarusian life — a blend of Belarusian and Russian grammar and vocabulary that most Belarusians use in informal settings. It does not follow fixed rules: different speakers produce different blends at different speeds. For a deaf lip-reader, this means tracking two languages' phoneme systems simultaneously in a pattern that varies from speaker to speaker and sentence to sentence.
Political suppression of disability
- Under the Lukashenko government, disability advocacy and deaf infrastructure have been systematically limited
- Belarus's political environment has restricted civil society organisations including disability advocacy groups. Belarusian Sign Language support organisations operate under severe constraints. The practical result is that official interpreter training, deaf community events, and everyday accessibility infrastructure have been suppressed in ways not seen in neighbouring European countries.
Fast urban Minsk speech
- Minsk colloquial speech is rapid and blended, diverging from both formal Belarusian and standard Russian
- Everyday spoken Belarusian in Minsk and major cities runs at high speed, mixes both language systems freely, and uses informal vocabulary that appears in neither formal Belarusian nor formal Russian dictionaries. A lip-reader who has learned formal Belarusian or formal Russian encounters a genuinely different phonological target in everyday street conversation.
Limited captioning technology
- Belarusian speech recognition technology is among the least developed in Europe
- Belarusian is one of the least resourced Slavic languages in terms of speech recognition, NLP tools, and captioning technology. The combination of limited tech support and limited political will means that a deaf Belarusian has almost no digital or institutional tools available for everyday communication accessibility.
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Download on theApp StoreBelarus has the world's highest genetic hearing loss mutation rate. Under political restrictions, deaf infrastructure has been systematically limited. No captions at the rynok, the marshrutka, or the family table.
Belarus faces a structurally elevated deaf and hard of hearing population due to an extraordinary genetic factor: a PMC study published in Frontiers in Genetics found that the 35delG GJB2 mutation — the most common genetic cause of congenital sensorineural hearing loss worldwide — has its highest carrier frequency in the Belarusian population compared to any other country. Hereditary deafness rates in Belarus are consequently among the highest per capita in Europe, creating a large deaf community that the country's health and disability infrastructure is not designed to serve. In daily life, deaf and hard of hearing Belarusians navigate the rynok, the marshrutka, the government office, and the family dacha gathering — all built entirely on oral exchange in trasianka, the mixed Belarusian-Russian speech of everyday life.
Belarusian Sign Language and disability advocacy organisations operate under severe political constraints in the current Lukashenko-governed state. Civil society organisations, including those supporting deaf Belarusians, have been systematically restricted. The practical result is that interpreter training, deaf community events, and everyday accessibility infrastructure have been suppressed in ways not seen in neighbouring EU member states. A deaf Belarusian at a government counter has no formal right to interpretation that is practically enforceable. At the market, the marshrutka, and the neighbourhood conversation, no provision exists at all.
Trasianka — the common everyday mixed speech of Belarus — creates a specific challenge for deaf people and for speech recognition technology: it does not follow fixed rules, varies from speaker to speaker, and blends Belarusian and Russian phonemes in patterns that differ by region, age, and context. Belarusian is also among the least-resourced languages in European speech recognition technology. Captio AI captions Belarusian speech in real time — including trasianka and Belarusian-Russian code-mixing — so the market, the government counter, and the family gathering are no longer settings you have to navigate alone.
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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
"Minsk conversations mix Belarusian and Russian in every sentence. Captio AI follows both. The rynok and the marshrutka are things I do alone now."
"Gomel speech is different from Minsk — more Belarusian-influenced. Captio AI handles both. Family gatherings at the dacha are conversations I follow now."
"Government office counters in Belarus use fast formal language. Captio AI transcribes every word instantly. I navigate those situations without needing anyone with me."
"Grodno is near the Polish border — conversations mix Belarusian, Russian, and sometimes Polish. Captio AI keeps up with all of it."
"Minsk conversations mix Belarusian and Russian in every sentence. Captio AI follows both. The rynok and the marshrutka are things I do alone now."
"Gomel speech is different from Minsk — more Belarusian-influenced. Captio AI handles both. Family gatherings at the dacha are conversations I follow now."
"Government office counters in Belarus use fast formal language. Captio AI transcribes every word instantly. I navigate those situations without needing anyone with me."
"Grodno is near the Polish border — conversations mix Belarusian, Russian, and sometimes Polish. Captio AI keeps up with all of it."
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Follow any conversation in Belarusian.
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