Spanish live captions and productivity tool for everyday conversations

Spain has over one million people classified as deaf or hearing-disabled, with approximately 10% of the total population living with some degree of hearing loss according to the EuroTrak survey. Across 22 Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America, the deaf and hard of hearing population numbers in the tens of millions. For all of them, exclusion from ordinary life does not begin in hospitals or workplaces — it begins at the Sunday family lunch where the conversation never reaches you, the mercado exchange that moves too fast to follow, the terraza where you are physically present but conversationally absent.

Spain legally recognised Spanish Sign Language in 2007 (Law 27/2007), but everyday implementation remains minimal. In Latin America, legal recognition of national sign languages is patchy and enforcement is weaker still. For informal everyday settings — the corner shop, the café, the family kitchen — there is no interpreter, no captioning, no infrastructure, and no legal obligation to provide one. The deaf person manages alone.

The WHO projects 700 million people globally will have disabling hearing loss by 2050. In Spanish-speaking countries, aging demographics and high rates of noise exposure in dense urban environments mean the trend is upward. The gap between the scale of the deaf and hard of hearing population and the daily-life infrastructure to support them is widening every year. Captio AI captions Spanish speech in real time — including fast Caribbean speech, regional Latin American accents, and the casual registers of daily life — so the market stall, the terraza, and the family table are no longer settings you have to navigate alone.