Slovak live captions and productivity tool for group settings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Slovak group settings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Slovak 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.
Slovak family celebrations — a name day (meniny), a baptism, or a wedding — bring multiple generations together for a long feast, with toasts, stories, and conversations happening in every direction at once.
A friend gathering around a Slovak kitchen table, with wine or beer, cold cuts, and bread — the kind of long evening conversation that drifts from family news to football to local politics.
Meeting old friends over coffee in a Bratislava cafe or in a family home, catching up on news and gossip in the relaxed, informal way Slovak friends do.
A local council meeting or homeowners committee gathering where residents voice opinions about shared spaces, local issues, or neighbourhood events.
A Sunday lunch (nedelny obed) where grandparents, parents, and children eat together — grandparents speaking heavier dialect and younger family members using standard Slovak.
An afternoon visit to a neighbour or friend — the spontaneous, unplanned social moments in Slovak life where conversation happens over coffee and cake without any formality.
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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 Slovak is hard to understand
Phonemic Vowel Length
- Short and long vowels look identical
- Slovak distinguishes word meaning through vowel length (a vs. a-long, e vs. e-long), and these distinctions are critical. Short and long vowels look identical on a speaker's lips — what changes is duration, not lip position — making these contrasts completely inaccessible to lip-readers.
Eastern Slovak Stress Shift
- Stress on the wrong syllable for lip-readers
- Standard Slovak uses first-syllable stress, but Eastern Slovak dialects use penultimate stress. At a gathering with guests from eastern Slovakia, the rhythmic pattern of speech falls in an unexpected place on the lips, disrupting the lip-reading rhythm calibrated to standard Slovak.
Rhythmic Law
- Long vowels shortened by grammar
- Slovak's rhythmic law prevents two consecutive long syllables, creating systematic vowel shortening in suffixes after long-vowelled stems. What should be a long vowel is shortened automatically — expected length becomes short, expected shortness remains short, and the resulting pattern is hard to predict.
Palatal Lateral
- L and soft-L look the same on lips
- Slovak has a palatal lateral that does not exist in most related languages and produces minimal visible lip change compared to plain l. Two phonemes that share nearly the same lip shape carry different meaning — a distinction invisible to lip-readers.
Eastern-Western Vocabulary Gap
- Same family, different words
- Beyond phonology, Eastern Slovak dialects have different vocabulary from Western and Central Slovak — and a different prosodic rhythm. At a social gathering mixing family members from Bratislava and Presov, the same story may be told twice in two versions that look and sound quite different.
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Slovakia has a population of approximately 5.5 million, and an estimated 250,000 people are deaf or hard of hearing — roughly 4.5 percent of the population. Despite relatively high awareness of hearing disability in the country, the provision of practical communication support is uneven. Of the 250,000 people with hearing loss in Slovakia, fewer than 5,000 are estimated to use Slovak Sign Language, meaning the vast majority navigate daily life — including group social settings — without specialist communication support.
The Slovak Sign Language Act was passed in 1995, and the 2020 codification of Slovak Sign Language was recognised as progress. However, practical implementation has lagged. Television subtitling obligations exist but remain inconsistently enforced: even the public broadcaster offers only minimal sign language programming, and live captioning of public events is rare. For deaf and hard of hearing Slovaks attending family celebrations, community meetings, or social gatherings, the lack of real-time access to group conversation is a daily fact of life.
Captio AI captions Slovak conversation in real time — whether the standard Slovak of a Bratislava gathering or the eastern-dialect speech of a family from Presov — so deaf and hard of hearing Slovaks can follow every voice at the table without waiting for the summary at the end.
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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
"Slovak family gatherings are long and loud — name days especially. Multiple people, multiple conversations, fast speech. Captio AI gives me every toast and every story in text, in real time."
"I am from eastern Slovakia so people around me use eastern dialect with penultimate stress and different vowels. No tool before handled it — Captio AI does it well and keeps improving."
"At my wedding the speeches were in three different Slovak dialects. I followed every single one on my phone. My family could not believe how clearly Captio AI captured the speech."
"Sunday lunch at my parents used to mean watching mouths and catching one word in four. Now I catch every sentence. Captio AI has given back a form of social life I thought I had lost."
"Slovak family gatherings are long and loud — name days especially. Multiple people, multiple conversations, fast speech. Captio AI gives me every toast and every story in text, in real time."
"I am from eastern Slovakia so people around me use eastern dialect with penultimate stress and different vowels. No tool before handled it — Captio AI does it well and keeps improving."
"At my wedding the speeches were in three different Slovak dialects. I followed every single one on my phone. My family could not believe how clearly Captio AI captured the speech."
"Sunday lunch at my parents used to mean watching mouths and catching one word in four. Now I catch every sentence. Captio AI has given back a form of social life I thought I had lost."
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Keep up with the group in Slovak.
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