Galician live captions and productivity tool for group settings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Galician group settings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Galician speakers.
Follow whoever is speaking
- Captions the active voice at any moment
- Works at dinner tables, parties, and social gatherings
- Place the phone in the centre of the group
- Any accent, any pace
For multilingual groups
- Each person speaks their own language
- You read in yours, in real time
- 60+ languages, no switching
- For international families, mixed-language groups, travel
Transcribe any group conversation
- Record and get the full conversation in writing
- Organised by speaker
- Review who said what after the fact
- Any group size, any language
Key points from any group discussion
- Decisions and takeaways extracted automatically
- Useful for group meetings and community discussions
- Organised into clear sections
- Works on any saved recording
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Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
Galician family Sunday lunches — long, loud, multi-course affairs in a village house or in the city — are central to social life in Galicia. Captio AI keeps the full conversation accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing family members across the table.
Gatherings with neighbours and friends in Vigo, Ourense, or a rural aldea move between Galician and Spanish fluidly. Captio AI follows both languages in real time so deaf guests can stay part of every exchange.
A catch-up at a Galician café or tapas bar — cañas, pulpo, and fast conversation — is hard to lip-read in background noise. Captio AI captions every voice so nothing is missed.
Community events, parroquia meetings, and neighbourhood fiestas use rapid conversational Galician with local expressions. Captio AI makes the discussion followable without a professional interpreter.
When grandparents speak a rural Galician variety and grandchildren mix in Spanish, the phonological gap widens. Captio AI captions both and keeps the multigenerational table connected.
Gatherings around a Galician romaría, a mussel festival in the Rías, or a local sports club meeting involve dense group conversation. Captio AI lets a deaf member follow every moment rather than catching only fragments.
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Built to keep you in the conversation, not just in the room
Captions whoever is speaking
Captio AI follows the dominant voice at any moment — whoever is loudest in the microphone's direction. In a group conversation, this tracks the active speaker naturally.
Works through background noise
Restaurants, living rooms, parties, outdoor gatherings. Moderate background noise does not prevent accurate captions — Captio AI is built for real environments, not quiet rooms.
Place it in the centre and forget it
Put the phone on the table or in the middle of the group, microphone facing the conversation. No positioning it after every speaker change, no adjusting between voices.
Less effort, less fatigue
The cognitive load of following a group conversation by lip-reading and reconstructing speech is exhausting. Captio AI handles the following so you can direct your energy toward actually being in the conversation.
60+ languages
For multilingual families, mixed-language social groups, or gatherings where people switch between languages mid-conversation. No setup required between language changes.
No setup between conversations
Open the app and place the phone. No configuration per setting, no briefing the group, nothing to manage between conversations. It works for any group, in any situation.
Why Galician is hard to understand
Unstressed vowel reduction
- Five written vowels, fewer visible at speed
- Like European Portuguese, Galician reduces unstressed vowels significantly in natural speech — the five written vowels collapse toward a smaller set of mouth positions at conversational pace. A word that looks clear in its written form looks very different when spoken quickly around a dinner table in Vigo or A Coruña.
Gheada
- A back-of-throat sound with no lip movement
- Coastal and western Galician dialects replace /g/ with a velar or glottal fricative — produced entirely in the back of the throat with almost no visible lip or jaw movement. Speakers from Fisterra or the Rías Baixas use this feature constantly, and it is among the hardest sounds to identify by sight in any language.
Seseo
- The /θ/ contrast disappears
- Galician lacks the Castilian Spanish interdental /θ/ — all sibilants merge into /s/. This is consistent within Galician, but in mixed groups where some speakers use Castilian Spanish, the /θ/-vs-/s/ contrast appears and disappears unpredictably, creating visual inconsistency for a lip-reader.
Galician-Spanish code-switching
- Two phonological systems in one conversation
- Urban Galicia — especially Vigo, A Coruña, and Santiago de Compostela — involves constant shifting between Galician and Spanish, sometimes mid-sentence. Deaf lip-readers must track two vowel systems simultaneously: Galician's reduced unstressed vowels and Spanish's more stable five-vowel pattern.
Rapid prosodic elision
- Word boundaries blur in fast group speech
- At social gatherings, Galician speech accelerates and word boundaries blur — article-noun pairs merge, common phrases contract into single phonological units. The already-narrow unstressed vowel space shrinks further, leaving lip-reading relying almost entirely on consonant shapes that are themselves reduced.
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Around one in ten people in Spain live with hearing loss — approximately five million people — according to EuroTrak survey data, placing Spain fifth in Europe for hearing loss prevalence. A 2022 study (PMC9859572) examining the impact of COVID-19 on Spaniards with hearing disabilities found that pandemic-era masking sharply worsened communication barriers: the mask removed the last visual lip-reading cue many hearing-impaired people depended upon in everyday social interactions. For Galician speakers — who number approximately 2.4 million — this experience compounded the existing challenges of following fast, code-switched speech.
Spain's 2008 EDAD disability survey recorded 1,064,000 people identifying as deaf or having a hearing disability — 2.3% of the national population. The national deaf federation CNSE has documented that Spanish sign language was historically forbidden in classrooms for decades, leaving many older deaf people without a shared communication system and compounding their isolation in family and community settings. In Galicia, the additional barrier of a regional language with fewer captioning resources means that publicly available accessibility tools often do not cover Galician at all.
Captio AI captions Galician speech in real time, so a deaf or hard-of-hearing person can follow a family Sunday lunch in Santiago de Compostela or a village gathering in the Rías Baixas without asking others to slow down or switch languages.
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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
"Sunday lunch at my parents' house lasts three hours. Everyone talks at once, in Galician, then Spanish, then Galician again. Captio AI follows every switch and I finally feel part of the full conversation."
"The gheada in my grandparents' speech made them almost impossible for me to lip-read. Captio AI catches it. Now family visits are something I actually enjoy rather than endure."
"At the romaría last summer, everyone was talking fast in Galician with music in the background. I read the whole conversation on my phone. First time I had ever done that at a village festival."
"My family speaks a rural Galician variety that I struggle to follow even with hearing aids. Captio AI gives me the transcript so I know what was actually said rather than guessing from fragments."
"Sunday lunch at my parents' house lasts three hours. Everyone talks at once, in Galician, then Spanish, then Galician again. Captio AI follows every switch and I finally feel part of the full conversation."
"The gheada in my grandparents' speech made them almost impossible for me to lip-read. Captio AI catches it. Now family visits are something I actually enjoy rather than endure."
"At the romaría last summer, everyone was talking fast in Galician with music in the background. I read the whole conversation on my phone. First time I had ever done that at a village festival."
"My family speaks a rural Galician variety that I struggle to follow even with hearing aids. Captio AI gives me the transcript so I know what was actually said rather than guessing from fragments."
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Keep up with the group in Galician.
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