Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Gujarati live captions and productivity tool for everyday conversations

For deaf and hard of hearing people.

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Use Cases

Every situation covered

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

🏪Counter conversations

Medical shop counter, ration office window, bank branch, post office. Staff speak fast in Gujarati and move on quickly. Captio AI shows what they said before the moment passes.

🍽️Group conversations

Family dinner, Diwali gathering, wedding function with extended family. Multiple generations, fast Gujarati mixing with Hindi or English. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking.

👋Talking to strangers

Asking a vegetable vendor for a price, getting directions in the neighbourhood, chatting with a neighbour. People who speak at full pace. Captio AI captions anyone near you.

Informal work moments

Chai break in the office, a quick question across the floor, chat in the canteen. The moments Gujarati workplaces run on. Captio AI keeps you in those conversations.

📋Appointments and admin

Government office window, hospital OPD counter, mamlatdar office, bank branch. Fast Gujarati, sometimes official phrasing, no repeat expected. Captio AI transcribes everything said.

🚉Getting around

GSRTC bus conductor calling stops, asking at a railway station, auto-rickshaw conversation. Situations where you need to understand fast. Captio AI covers you anywhere.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Gujarati
92.2%

word accuracy

independent benchmark, 2025

< 200ms
you speak
captions

real-time captions

first word appears as you speak

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Captio AI in everyday use
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.

Gujarati

Why Gujarati is hard to understand

Fast casual speech

  • Everyday Gujarati drops syllables and merges words at conversational speed
  • Formal Gujarati is deliberate and close to written form. Everyday spoken Gujarati — especially in Ahmedabad, Surat, and within diaspora communities — drops syllables, uses shortened forms, and runs at a pace that makes visual parsing difficult. The gap between written and spoken Gujarati is significant.

Gujarati-Hindi-English mixing

  • Urban Gujarati constantly switches between three languages
  • In Gujarat's cities and in diaspora communities worldwide, Gujarati speakers switch between Gujarati, Hindi, and English mid-sentence. A single family conversation can involve all three without any speaker noticing. For a deaf person, the language they are trying to follow shifts constantly.

Diaspora variation

  • UK, US, and East Africa Gujarati have evolved into distinct varieties
  • Gujarati has one of the world's largest and most established diaspora communities — in the UK (especially Leicester and London), in East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania), and in the US. Each community has evolved distinct vocabulary and mixing patterns. A deaf person in Leicester encounters a different spoken variety from someone in Ahmedabad.

Business and social speed

  • Gujarati commercial culture is fast, verbal, and built on quick exchange
  • Gujarat has a strong commercial culture — the bazaar, the market stall, the family business discussion happen fast and verbally. For deaf and hard of hearing people in these settings, the expectation of quick exchanges creates constant pressure.

No daily accessibility

  • Indian Sign Language is absent from Gujarati everyday life
  • Gujarat carries a proportionate share of India's 63 million deaf and hard of hearing people, and Indian Sign Language is absent from daily informal settings. The market, the family gathering, the chai shop, and the transport have no interpreter and no visual accessibility support.

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The Challenge

Millions in Gujarat and across the diaspora. The corner shop and the family table are off limits.

Gujarat has a population of over 67 million people and carries a proportionate share of India's 63 million deaf and hard of hearing people. Gujarati is also one of the world's most diaspora-active languages — communities in the UK, East Africa, and North America bring the total population of Gujarati speakers to over 70 million worldwide. For deaf people in all these communities, exclusion from daily life follows the same pattern: the family gathering where the conversation moves too fast to follow, the bazaar where the vendor doesn't slow down, the community event where the social world happens entirely through spoken language.

Indian Sign Language is absent from everyday informal settings across Gujarat, just as it is across India broadly. Only 5% of deaf children in India attend school. For Gujarati-speaking communities abroad, the situation is no better — the UK and US diaspora communities have no Gujarati sign language interpreter provision for informal social settings. The NPPCD programme addresses institutional settings; daily life remains entirely without support.

India's growing deaf and hard of hearing population, combined with the large and dispersed Gujarati diaspora, means the scale of daily-life exclusion is larger than Gujarat-specific statistics suggest. Captio AI captions Gujarati speech in real time — including fast colloquial Gujarati, Gujarati-Hindi mixing, and the English-inflected Gujarati of diaspora communities — so the market, the family gathering, and the corner shop are no longer settings you have to navigate alone.

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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

"Ahmedabad Gujarati is fast and the market exchanges move very quickly. Captio AI follows all of it. I run errands completely alone now."

Dhruv P. 🇮🇳
dhruv.p***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ahmedabad

"UK Gujarati mixes Gujarati, English, and sometimes Hindi. Captio AI handles all three. Family gatherings in Leicester are genuinely mine now."

Mira S. 🇬🇧
mira.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Leicester

"American Gujarati diaspora conversations mix everything. Captio AI follows the code-switching without any issues. The community temple events are somewhere I fully participate now."

Reena V. 🇺🇸
reena.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, New Jersey

"Kenya Gujarati is its own variety, different from India. Captio AI handles it. Family gatherings in Nairobi are something I actually follow now."

Karan M. 🇰🇪
karan.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Nairobi

"Ahmedabad Gujarati is fast and the market exchanges move very quickly. Captio AI follows all of it. I run errands completely alone now."

Dhruv P. 🇮🇳
dhruv.p***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ahmedabad

"UK Gujarati mixes Gujarati, English, and sometimes Hindi. Captio AI handles all three. Family gatherings in Leicester are genuinely mine now."

Mira S. 🇬🇧
mira.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Leicester

"American Gujarati diaspora conversations mix everything. Captio AI follows the code-switching without any issues. The community temple events are somewhere I fully participate now."

Reena V. 🇺🇸
reena.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, New Jersey

"Kenya Gujarati is its own variety, different from India. Captio AI handles it. Family gatherings in Nairobi are something I actually follow now."

Karan M. 🇰🇪
karan.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Nairobi

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow any conversation in Gujarati.

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