Czech live captions and productivity tool for everyday conversations
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Czech everyday conversations
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Czech 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.
Lékárna counter, pošta window, supermarket checkout, úřad desk. Staff speak fast in Czech and move to the next person. Captio AI shows what they said before the moment passes.
Sunday family oběd, birthday celebration, neighbours gathering. Multiple generations, fast overlapping Czech, Moravian or Silesian accents mixing in. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking.
Asking for directions in the city, chatting with a neighbour in the chodbě, meeting someone at the tržiště. People who speak at full conversational pace. Captio AI captions anyone near you.
Přestávka na kávu conversation, a quick question in the chodbě, catch-up before a meeting. The moments Czech workplaces run on. Captio AI keeps you in those conversations.
Obvodní lékař reception, úřad counter, bank branch, Czech Post. Formal vocabulary, fast delivery, no repeat expected. Captio AI transcribes everything said.
Tram and metro announcements, bus driver, asking at a nádraží, taxi conversation. Situations where you need to understand the first time. Captio AI covers you anywhere.
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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 Czech is hard to understand
Consonant clusters
- Czech produces entire sentences with almost no lip-readable vowel movement
- Czech is the language of the tongue-twister 'strč prst skrz krk' — push a finger through your throat — which uses no vowels at all. This is not just a party trick; it reflects a genuine property of spoken Czech. Common words and phrases in everyday conversation pass with dense consonant strings that leave no visible lip trace. A deaf lip-reader watching Czech misses the structural skeleton of every sentence.
Colloquial versus written Czech
- Everyday Prague Czech is acoustically and visually different from formal written Czech
- Colloquial Czech (obecná čeština) — the variety spoken in Prague and Bohemia — has distinct vowel shifts, different word endings, and heavy slang compared to formal written Czech. A deaf person who has learned to lip-read formal textbook Czech encounters a genuinely different language in a Prague café or on the tram. The gap is larger than in most European languages.
Hospoda culture
- The Czech pub is the social heartbeat — and the worst possible environment for hearing loss
- The hospoda (pub) is where Czech social life happens — political debate, friendship, news, gossip. It is also loud, echoing, full of overlapping voices, and typically has hard surfaces that amplify noise rather than absorb it. For a deaf or hard of hearing Czech person, the hospoda is effectively inaccessible — the most socially important setting in Czech culture is also the least accessible.
Prague versus Moravian Czech
- Bohemian and Moravian Czech have distinct vowel systems — lip-reading in one region doesn't transfer
- Bohemian Czech (spoken in Prague and western Czech Republic) and Moravian Czech differ meaningfully in vowel quality and intonation. A deaf person who has calibrated their lip-reading to Prague speech will struggle in Brno or in eastern Moravia — and vice versa. Regional family visits become a fresh lip-reading challenge.
Transactional impatience
- At tram stops and potraviny counters, Czech conversational norms expect speed and brevity
- Czech public communication culture values brevity and efficiency. At the tram stop, the corner shop (potraviny), and the market stall, there is little social tolerance for asking someone to repeat. A deaf person who needs clarification risks visible frustration from the other party — adding social anxiety on top of the communication barrier.
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Around 500,000 people in the Czech Republic — approximately 5% of the population — live with hearing impairment, the majority of whom are elderly adults whose loss has progressed over time. A 2020 EuroTrak Czech survey found 10.5% of Czechs self-report hearing loss. For deaf and hard of hearing Czechs, daily life plays out at the hospoda, the potraviny, the tramvaj stop, and the family Sunday table — all settings built around fast oral exchange with no captioning and no sign language support. The hospoda — the pub — is not merely a place to drink; it is where Czech political opinion forms, where friendships deepen, where news travels. To be excluded from it by hearing loss is to be excluded from a core institution of Czech civic life.
About 7,300 people use Czech Sign Language (český znakový jazyk), and approximately 15,000 acquired hearing loss at birth or in childhood. Czech Sign Language is recognized in Czech law, and organisations like the Czech Disability Council provide sign language courses — but everyday public spaces are not equipped with interpreters. The gap between legal recognition and actual everyday accessibility is widest precisely in the informal settings that matter most: the pub, the corner shop, the market, the tram. A 2022 European Disability Forum report noted that Czech Sign Language still lacked the legal standing needed to mandate interpretation in public everyday settings.
The majority of the 500,000 hearing-impaired Czechs do not use hearing aids or receive rehabilitation — meaning daily social withdrawal progresses silently. International evidence consistently shows that the hospoda, the family Sunday meal, and the neighbourhood conversation are the first settings that hearing-impaired adults abandon as their hearing declines, leading to progressive isolation. Captio AI captions Czech speech in real time — including fast colloquial Prague Czech and Moravian varieties — so the hospoda conversation, the potraviny errand, and the family Sunday meal are no longer settings you have to experience from the outside.
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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
"The hospoda was always noise I sat through. Captio AI captions the fast Prague Czech. I go out with friends and follow the conversation for the first time."
"Moravian Czech sounds different from Prague. Captio AI handles both. Family visits across the country are conversations I actually follow now."
"The potraviny and the tram are daily errands. Captio AI captions every exchange. I haven't needed to bring someone to help me with errands for months."
"Czech consonant clusters are a wall for lip-reading. Captio AI gets through it. Even fast hospoda conversation is readable now."
"The hospoda was always noise I sat through. Captio AI captions the fast Prague Czech. I go out with friends and follow the conversation for the first time."
"Moravian Czech sounds different from Prague. Captio AI handles both. Family visits across the country are conversations I actually follow now."
"The potraviny and the tram are daily errands. Captio AI captions every exchange. I haven't needed to bring someone to help me with errands for months."
"Czech consonant clusters are a wall for lip-reading. Captio AI gets through it. Even fast hospoda conversation is readable now."
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