Punjabi live captions and productivity tool for group settings

In Punjab, Pakistan alone, an estimated 149,235 people are deaf — around 0.2% of the province's population. Nationally, studies indicate that 7.4% of Pakistan's population have some degree of hearing loss, making Pakistan one of South Asia's countries with the highest absolute burden of hearing disability. A significant driver is consanguineous marriage: in southern Punjab, rates of relatedness among parents of deaf children reach 80%, and GJB2-related genetic hearing loss accounts for at least 20% of severe-to-profound cases in the region. Across the border in India, hearing loss is the second most common disability, affecting an estimated 63 million people, with prevalence among children reaching 6.6% to 16.47% in community studies.

Access to support services in Punjab — on both sides of the border — remains deeply unequal. In Pakistan, sign language interpreting is available almost exclusively in major cities like Lahore, and hearing aid subsidies reach only a fraction of those who need them. In India's Punjab, public sector audiology is concentrated at district hospitals, with the audiometrist-to-population ratio estimated at 1:500,000. Deaf adults in both regions report that navigating family social events — weddings, religious gatherings, community meetings — without real-time captioning means following social cues and gestures rather than conversation.

Captio AI captions Punjabi conversation in real time on a phone screen — so a deaf family member at a wedding hall or a multigenerational dinner table can follow every toast, story, and argument as it happens, regardless of whether speakers are from Lahore, Amritsar, or London.