Polish live captions and productivity tool for everyday conversations
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Polish everyday conversations
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Polish 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, poczta window, supermarket checkout, urząd counter. Staff speak fast and move to the next person. Captio AI shows what they said before the moment passes.
Family Sunday dinner, birthday celebration, neighbourhood gathering. Multiple generations, fast overlapping Polish, regional accents mixing. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking.
Asking for directions in the city, chatting with a neighbour in the klatka schodowa, meeting someone at the targ. People who speak at full conversational pace. Captio AI captions anyone near you.
Przerwa na kawę conversation, a quick question in the korytarz, catch-up before a meeting. The moments Polish workplaces run on. Captio AI keeps you in those conversations.
Przychodnia reception, urząd gminy counter, bank branch, ZUS office. Formal vocabulary, fast delivery, no repeat expected. Captio AI transcribes everything said.
Tram and bus announcements, asking at a dworzec, taxi driver conversation. Situations where you need to understand the first time. Captio AI covers you anywhere.
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 Polish is hard to understand
Consonant clusters
- Polish packs consonants together in ways no other European language matches
- Polish has consonant clusters that are exceptional even by Slavic standards — words like 'szczególnie' or 'bezpłatnie' stack fricatives and affricates in ways that produce minimal visible mouth movement. At conversational speed, Polish consonant-heavy speech gives a lip reader very little to work with.
Grammatical complexity
- Polish has seven grammatical cases — word endings change constantly
- Polish nouns, adjectives, and pronouns change form across seven cases. In fast everyday speech, the same word sounds different depending on its grammatical role. For a deaf person following captions, this means that every word that looks familiar in writing sounds different in speech across different sentences.
Fast informal registers
- Everyday Polish speech drops and reduces at speed
- Formal Polish is clear and deliberate. Everyday street Polish — in Warsaw, Kraków, and Gdańsk — contracts, drops endings, and uses informal vocabulary that differs significantly from the formal register. Daily life happens entirely in the informal register.
Only 1 in 5 using hearing aids
- Most Polish people with hearing loss are not using the tools available to them
- The EuroTrak Poland survey found that only one in five Polish people with hearing loss uses hearing aids. This means the population navigating Polish daily life without sound is significantly larger than official figures for aids provision would suggest — and most are doing so without any assistive technology.
Interpreter shortage
- Only 45,000–60,000 Polish Sign Language users — and too few interpreters
- Polish Sign Language (PJM) is used by 45,000–60,000 people, but interpreter provision for everyday informal settings is very limited. The bakery, the market, the family kitchen, and the bus have no interpreter. The individual manages alone.
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Poland has approximately 1 million people registered with hearing impairment, and 15.1% of Polish adults self-report some degree of hearing loss according to the EuroTrak Poland survey — one of the higher self-reported prevalence rates in Central Europe. Yet only one in five people with hearing loss in Poland uses hearing aids, leaving a large population navigating Polish daily life without any assistive support. For deaf and hard of hearing Poles, exclusion is embedded in ordinary settings: the bakery where the cashier speaks fast and doesn't repeat, the family dinner where conversation runs in fast regional Polish, the government office where Behördendeutsch-equivalent formal vocabulary is delivered quickly.
Polish Sign Language (PJM) is used by 45,000–60,000 people but interpreter provision for everyday informal settings is minimal. Poland's 38% disability unemployment rate reflects the broader infrastructure gap. A 2023 WHO Europe report on hearing loss inclusion in Poland identified the need for better community-level support beyond institutional settings — a gap that remains largely unaddressed. The bakery, the bus, the family table, and the market have no interpreter and no obligation to provide one.
Poland's ageing population — one of the fastest-ageing in Europe — is driving an increase in hearing loss prevalence. The EuroTrak data suggests significant unmet need. Captio AI captions Polish speech in real time — including fast consonant-cluster-heavy colloquial Polish and regional varieties — so the bakery, the family gathering, and the government office 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
"Polish consonant clusters are impossible to lip-read. Even simple words disappear on the lips. Captio AI gives me the actual words in real time. Warsaw daily life is mine now."
"Family gatherings in Kraków are fast and everyone talks at once. Captio AI follows it all. I stopped nodding without understanding."
"Government offices and clinics in Poland move fast. Captio AI transcribes in real time. I stopped avoiding appointments I needed."
"Wrocław street Polish is fast and informal. Captio AI handles it. The supermarket, the bakery, the bus — everything is different now."
"Polish consonant clusters are impossible to lip-read. Even simple words disappear on the lips. Captio AI gives me the actual words in real time. Warsaw daily life is mine now."
"Family gatherings in Kraków are fast and everyone talks at once. Captio AI follows it all. I stopped nodding without understanding."
"Government offices and clinics in Poland move fast. Captio AI transcribes in real time. I stopped avoiding appointments I needed."
"Wrocław street Polish is fast and informal. Captio AI handles it. The supermarket, the bakery, the bus — everything is different now."
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Follow any conversation in Polish.
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