Malay live captions and productivity tool for group settings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Malay group settings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Malay 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.
A Malay family dinner — a Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration, a kenduri, or a Sunday family meal — with multiple generations talking at once.
A house-warming, birthday, or neighbourhood gathering where the living room is full and small groups chat over rendang and ketupat.
A catch-up with old schoolmates over teh tarik at a mamak stall, with fast conversation shifting between topics and languages.
A community meeting at a surau, masjid, or residents' association where announcements are made and the group responds.
Three generations at a family table — grandparents in Kelantanese or Terengganu Malay, parents in standard Bahasa Malaysia, teenagers mixing in English.
A casual evening at a friend's home or a night market where small groups form and conversations flow informally.
Most accurate and fastest models
word accuracy
independent benchmark, 2025
real-time captions
first word appears as you speak
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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 Malay is hard to understand
State dialect divergence
- Kelantanese, Sarawakian, and Bruneian Malay sound distinct
- Malay varies significantly by state. Kelantanese Malay, Sarawakian Malay, and Bruneian Malay each have distinct vowel systems, consonant qualities, and intonation patterns that differ from standard Kuala Lumpur Malay. A family gathering that mixes relatives from different states puts a deaf person in front of multiple phonological systems simultaneously.
Multilingual code-switching
- Bahasa Melayu, English, Mandarin, and Tamil shift mid-sentence
- Malaysian social gatherings frequently cross language boundaries. Even among Malay-speaking families, English phrases and code-switched terms appear naturally mid-sentence. A deaf person cannot predict which language's phonology will appear in the next utterance.
Final consonant reduction
- Word endings disappear in fast colloquial speech
- Colloquial Malay frequently reduces or drops final consonants that standard Bahasa Melayu preserves. The word-final distinctions that carry meaning in careful speech vanish in animated social conversation, removing visual cues a deaf person depends on.
Sentence-final particles
- Lah, mah, and kan carry meaning but compress at speed
- Malay sentence-final particles — lah, mah, kan, and others — signal tone, emphasis, and social register. In fast casual conversation these particles are compressed or dropped entirely. A deaf person loses the pragmatic layer of an utterance when particles disappear.
BIM regional variation
- Malaysian Sign Language varies state by state
- Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia (BIM) itself has state-by-state dialect variation — deaf community members from different states use different signs. At a gathering that brings together deaf Malaysians from different states, even the sign language community faces internal comprehension challenges.
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Download on theApp StoreHearing loss in Malaysia: the scale of daily exclusion
Malaysia's Health Minister announced in 2026 that 21.5% of Malaysians — roughly one in five people — are affected by hearing problems. Official disability registrations record 42,652 persons with hearing impairment nationally, representing 6.69% of all registered persons with disabilities. Of those, 11.85% are children, 23.23% young adults aged 19–35, and over 28% are older adults. Hearing care services in Malaysia were introduced in the 1960s and expanded through public and private hospital audiology departments, but access remains uneven outside major cities.
Malaysia's multilingual environment — where Bahasa Malaysia, English, Mandarin, and Tamil are widely used — creates compound challenges for deaf and hard-of-hearing Malaysians. Bahasa Isyarat Malaysia (BIM), officially recognised in 2008, is the primary language of the Malaysian deaf community, but many deaf children grow up in hearing families who do not know BIM and in schools where interpreters are unavailable. Even in special education settings, deaf students are often encouraged to lip-read and speak aloud rather than receive full language access. Community social events — family gatherings, religious celebrations, neighbourhood meetings — are held without any captioning or sign language support.
Captio AI captions Malay conversation in real time on a phone screen — so a deaf family member at a Hari Raya kenduri or a multigenerational gathering in Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu, or Kuching can follow every story and announcement as it is spoken, in whatever state dialect or mix of languages is at the table.
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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
"At our Hari Raya gathering relatives from Kelantan speak very differently from my KL family. Captio AI followed both accents and I finally caught all the family news."
"At mamak stalls the conversation jumps between Malay, English, and Mandarin. The app followed it all — I stopped pretending I'd heard what people were saying."
"At my family's kenduri I use BIM with my siblings but couldn't follow the rest of the table. Captio AI meant I could read what my aunties were saying without asking my siblings to relay everything."
"Bruneian Malay is different enough from Malaysian Malay that most apps struggle. Captio AI handled my family's conversation accurately — I was part of the meal instead of watching it."
"At our Hari Raya gathering relatives from Kelantan speak very differently from my KL family. Captio AI followed both accents and I finally caught all the family news."
"At mamak stalls the conversation jumps between Malay, English, and Mandarin. The app followed it all — I stopped pretending I'd heard what people were saying."
"At my family's kenduri I use BIM with my siblings but couldn't follow the rest of the table. Captio AI meant I could read what my aunties were saying without asking my siblings to relay everything."
"Bruneian Malay is different enough from Malaysian Malay that most apps struggle. Captio AI handled my family's conversation accurately — I was part of the meal instead of watching it."
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Keep up with the group in Malay.
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