Malayalam live captions and productivity tool for group settings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Malayalam group settings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Malayalam 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 Kerala family dinner — Onam sadya, a wedding feast, or a Sunday family meal — with relatives talking across the table in colloquial and formal Malayalam.
A house-warming celebration or a family reunion where the veranda fills with guests and multiple conversations run in parallel.
A catch-up with old friends from college over chai and snacks, with fast conversation ranging across careers, family, and gossip.
A community gathering at a church, mosque, or local association in Kerala where announcements and discussion happen in Malayalam.
Three generations at a family table — grandparents in Malabar Malayalam, parents in standard Thiruvananthapuram speech, children mixing in English.
A casual evening at a friend's home in Kochi or a neighbourhood gathering where small groups form and conversations flow freely.
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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 Malayalam is hard to understand
Retroflex series
- Dental, alveolar, and retroflex — all look identical on lips
- Malayalam phonemically distinguishes dental, alveolar, and retroflex articulations for multiple consonant classes. These three-way distinctions are produced entirely by tongue tip position and create no visible difference in lip shape. At a family dinner, this invisible three-way contrast removes phonemic information that only a complete audio signal can recover.
Geminate consonants
- Short and long consonants change meaning — same lip closure
- Malayalam has phonemic gemination: a short /t/ and a long /tt/ produce different words, as do /k/ and /kk/. Both are produced with the same brief lip closure, differing only in duration. At natural conversational pace, the durational distinction collapses and minimal pairs become visually identical.
Northern-Southern dialect gap
- Malabar and Thiruvananthapuram Malayalam sound different
- Northern (Malabar) Malayalam and southern (Thiruvananthapuram/Kochi) Malayalam differ in vowel realization, consonant quality, and prosody. A deaf person from Kozhikode reading lips of relatives from Trivandrum at the same family gathering faces a genuinely different phonological inventory.
Formal-colloquial diglossia
- Literary and spoken Malayalam are two different registers
- There is a sharp divide between literary/formal Malayalam and the colloquial spoken variety. Educated Keralites switch between registers at the same table — formal speech with elders, colloquial with cousins — without signalling the shift. A deaf person cannot anticipate which register is active.
Manglish code-switching
- Urban Kerala gatherings mix Malayalam and English continuously
- Urban Kerala gatherings — particularly among younger and educated speakers — freely integrate English into Malayalam mid-sentence (called Manglish). The phonological system of any given phrase is unpredictable: a sentence may begin in Malayalam and end in English without any pause or signal.
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Download on theApp StoreHearing loss in Kerala and the Malayalam-speaking world: the scale of daily exclusion
The State Initiative on Disabilities Survey (2015) found that 2.32% of Kerala's population is affected by some form of disability, with 60,925 persons classified as hearing disabled under the Persons with Disabilities Act. Nationally, India carries one of the world's largest burdens of hearing disability: an estimated 63 million people have significant hearing loss, representing the second most common disability category. Among children under six, 476,075 are estimated to have some degree of hearing loss. Research on Malayalam-speaking persons with hearing loss shows that vowel identification is a primary challenge — individuals with hearing loss show significantly reduced ability to identify spoken disyllabic Malayalam words compared to hearing controls, compounding the difficulty of real-world social settings.
Access to hearing rehabilitation in Kerala is improving through NPPCD outreach and cochlear implant programmes at major hospitals, but service gaps remain severe in rural districts. The audiometrist-to-population ratio nationally stands at approximately 1:500,000, and the speech therapist-to-deaf-population ratio is 1:200. For deaf and hard-of-hearing Keralites, the challenge of navigating social life is compounded by Malayalam's phonological complexity: formal and colloquial registers differ substantially, and urban Manglish code-switching adds a layer of unpredictability that no lip-reading strategy alone can resolve.
Captio AI captions Malayalam conversation in real time on a phone screen — so a deaf family member at an Onam sadya or a multigenerational gathering in Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, or in the Gulf diaspora can follow every story and announcement as it is spoken, without needing someone to relay the conversation.
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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 Onam sadya the whole family sits together and everyone talks at once. With Captio AI I could follow the conversation at my end of the table — something I hadn't managed in years."
"My northern Kerala relatives speak very differently from my Thiruvananthapuram family. The app handled both accents at the same family gathering and I didn't have to guess anymore."
"Malayali community gatherings in Dubai are full of Manglish and different dialects. Captio AI followed the Malayalam-English switching without missing anything important."
"My family mixes formal and colloquial Malayalam constantly. The app kept up with the register shifts at our wedding reception — I stayed part of the evening instead of watching from the side."
"At our Onam sadya the whole family sits together and everyone talks at once. With Captio AI I could follow the conversation at my end of the table — something I hadn't managed in years."
"My northern Kerala relatives speak very differently from my Thiruvananthapuram family. The app handled both accents at the same family gathering and I didn't have to guess anymore."
"Malayali community gatherings in Dubai are full of Manglish and different dialects. Captio AI followed the Malayalam-English switching without missing anything important."
"My family mixes formal and colloquial Malayalam constantly. The app kept up with the register shifts at our wedding reception — I stayed part of the evening instead of watching from the side."
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Keep up with the group in Malayalam.
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