Hebrew live captions and productivity tool for everyday conversations
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Hebrew everyday conversations
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Hebrew 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.
Pharmacy counter, supermarket checkout, bank teller, misrad counter. Staff speak fast in Hebrew and move on. Captio AI shows what they said before the moment passes.
Shabbat family dinner, holiday gathering, birthday celebration with extended family. Multiple generations, fast Hebrew mixing with English or Russian. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking.
Getting a price at the shuk, asking for directions in a new neighbourhood, chatting with a neighbour. People who speak at full conversational pace. Captio AI captions anyone near you.
Coffee break in the office, a quick question across the floor, chat before the meeting starts. The moments Israeli workplaces run on. Captio AI keeps you in those conversations.
Kupat holim clinic reception, misrad counter, bank branch, post office. Fast Hebrew, sometimes formal vocabulary, no repeat expected. Captio AI transcribes everything said.
Bus driver calling stops, Egged or Dan announcements, asking at a tachanah. Situations where you need to understand fast. Captio AI covers you anywhere on the move.
Most accurate and fastest models
word accuracy
independent benchmark, 2025
real-time captions
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 Hebrew is hard to understand
Pharyngeal consonants
- Several Hebrew sounds are produced deep in the throat with no lip movement at all
- Hebrew has pharyngeal and uvular consonants — including ח (voiceless pharyngeal fricative), ע (voiced pharyngeal fricative), and the distinct Israeli ר (uvular trill) — that are produced deep in the throat or at the back of the palate with no visible lip or front-of-mouth movement. These sounds appear in extremely common words. A lip-reader misses them in every single word they appear in.
Sabra speech pace
- Fast Israeli-born Hebrew is spoken at a high pace with heavy abbreviation and slang
- The Sabra (Israeli-born) speech style is notoriously fast, abbreviated, and slang-heavy. Everyday Hebrew street conversation sounds dramatically different from formal textbook Hebrew, and the pace accelerates in social settings. A deaf person who has learned formal Hebrew encounters a different spoken register in daily Israeli life — faster, more compressed, and full of informal vocabulary with no written equivalent.
Community pronunciation variation
- Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, Ethiopian, and Russian immigrant Hebrew sound meaningfully different
- Israeli society encompasses communities with distinct Hebrew pronunciation patterns. Mizrahi Hebrew preserves pharyngeal sounds; Ashkenazi Hebrew historically softened them; Ethiopian Hebrew has its own phonemic patterns; and the large Russian immigrant community speaks Hebrew with Russian phoneme interference. A deaf person lip-reading one community's Hebrew may struggle when the community changes.
Shabbat table intensity
- Shabbat family dinner is one of the most socially important settings — and one of the loudest
- The Shabbat dinner is a cornerstone of Israeli social and family life — a weekly gathering with multiple generations talking simultaneously, singing, arguing, and joking at high volume. For a deaf or hard of hearing Israeli, the Shabbat table is simultaneously the most important family event and one of the most acoustically inaccessible settings in daily life.
Arabic-Hebrew code-switching
- In mixed cities like Haifa, Jaffa, and Lod, everyday conversation crosses between Hebrew and Arabic
- In Israeli mixed cities — Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramla — everyday conversation between Jewish and Arab residents frequently switches between Hebrew and Arabic. For a deaf person, tracking two phonologically distinct Semitic languages in an unpredictable pattern within a single conversation is an additional layer of complexity on top of the baseline Hebrew challenges.
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Download on theApp Store150,000–200,000 hard of hearing Israelis. Interpreter availability limited. No captions at the shuk, the Shabbat table, or the neighbourhood makolet.
Israel has approximately 10,000 profoundly deaf people and an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 hard of hearing individuals — about 8% of the adult population, according to the Israel Deaf Association and the Central Bureau of Statistics. In a country where daily social life centres on the shuk bargain, the Shabbat table, and the neighbourhood makolet, being deaf or hard of hearing means exclusion from the texture of Israeli everyday life. The Shabbat dinner — the weekly anchor of Israeli family culture — is simultaneously the most socially important setting and one of the most acoustically challenging: multiple generations talking, singing, and debating simultaneously at high volume.
Israeli Sign Language (ISL) has gained significant institutional support since the Academy of the Hebrew Language established a dedicated ISL department in 2022, and research into the genetics of deafness in Israeli families continues to advance. But a 2014 study found that 67% of sign language interpreters in Israel decline one-hour assignments due to low compensation and inefficient scheduling — meaning even those entitled to interpretation often cannot access it. A PMC study of deaf Israelis in emergency situations documented systematic communication failures even in life-or-death moments; in ordinary daily settings, the barriers are quieter but constant.
Israel's over-65 population is among the fastest-growing in the OECD, meaning the number of people with age-related hearing loss will increase substantially through the 2030s. At the same time, genetic research at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University continues to identify new deafness genes in Israeli families — including findings specific to Ashkenazi and Mizrahi populations — indicating a high genetic prevalence that predates aging entirely. Captio AI captions Hebrew speech in real time — including fast Sabra speech, pharyngeal consonants, and the diverse pronunciation of Israel's many communities — so the shuk, the Shabbat table, and the neighbourhood conversation 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.
Private by default
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People love Captio AI
"The Shabbat table is fast, loud, and everyone talks at once. Captio AI captions it. Friday night dinner is a conversation I actually participate in now rather than sit through."
"Mahane Yehuda shuk is incredibly loud and the Hebrew is fast. Captio AI keeps up with every vendor. I do my weekly shopping completely alone now."
"Haifa conversations mix Hebrew and Arabic. Captio AI handles both. Neighbourhood exchanges with Arab and Jewish neighbours are conversations I follow now."
"Fast Sabra Hebrew moves at a pace I could never lip-read. Captio AI captions the acoustic signal. The café and the bus are places I navigate independently now."
"The Shabbat table is fast, loud, and everyone talks at once. Captio AI captions it. Friday night dinner is a conversation I actually participate in now rather than sit through."
"Mahane Yehuda shuk is incredibly loud and the Hebrew is fast. Captio AI keeps up with every vendor. I do my weekly shopping completely alone now."
"Haifa conversations mix Hebrew and Arabic. Captio AI handles both. Neighbourhood exchanges with Arab and Jewish neighbours are conversations I follow now."
"Fast Sabra Hebrew moves at a pace I could never lip-read. Captio AI captions the acoustic signal. The café and the bus are places I navigate independently now."
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Follow any conversation in Hebrew.
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