Slovenian live captions and productivity tool for group settings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Slovenian group settings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Slovenian 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.
Slovenian family Sunday lunches, holiday gatherings, and birthday tables bring multiple generations to one room. Captio AI keeps the full conversation visible for deaf and hard-of-hearing family members, from quiet grandparents to faster-talking younger voices.
House parties and neighbourhood get-togethers in Ljubljana, Maribor, or a smaller town move quickly between speakers. Captio AI follows each voice in real time so a deaf guest can join rather than observe from the edge.
A coffee catch-up with Slovenian friends at a local kavarna is fast and low-key. Captio AI captions every exchange so a deaf or hard-of-hearing person can contribute rather than guess at what was said.
Community meetings, vaška skupnost discussions, and local association events use conversational Slovenian at speed. Captio AI makes the full meeting followable without a professional interpreter.
When grandparents speak a regional dialect from Carinthia or the Littoral and grandchildren use urban Ljubljana Slovenian, the phonological gap is real. Captio AI handles both and keeps the multigenerational table connected.
Gatherings at a local football club, hiking group reunion, or wine cooperative evening involve fast exchanges between familiar members. Captio AI keeps a deaf or hard-of-hearing member part of every conversation.
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word accuracy
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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 Slovenian is hard to understand
Extreme dialect diversity
- Seven dialect groups, sometimes mutually unintelligible
- Slovenian has seven major dialect groups across a small geographic area, and dialects in distant regions — Primorska on the Italian border versus Prekmurje near Hungary — can be difficult for speakers of standard Slovenian to understand. At a family gathering with members from different regions, a deaf lip-reader encounters a mix of phonological systems rather than one consistent pattern.
Central dialect pitch accent
- Tonal contrasts invisible on the lips
- In a north-south band of central Slovenian dialects — Upper and Lower Carniolan and parts of Carinthian — phonemic tone contrasts exist, similar to Serbian's pitch accent. These prosodic distinctions are produced in the larynx and are entirely invisible on the face, making tonal word pairs indistinguishable by sight.
Vowel reduction in casual speech
- Eight vowels shrink to fewer at speed
- Standard Slovenian has eight vowel phonemes, but in fast conversational speech unstressed vowels reduce toward schwa or are dropped entirely. At a family dinner, the spoken phonological space narrows considerably, leaving a lip-reader fewer visual anchors than careful slow speech would provide.
Border language mixing
- German and Italian enter without warning
- In border communities with Austria and Italy, Slovenian is in constant contact with German and Italian. Carinthian Slovenes and Triestine community members code-switch freely, introducing phonological systems with completely different lip patterns mid-conversation and without any verbal signal.
Consonant alternations
- Familiar words arrive in altered forms
- Slovenian has systematic consonant alternations at morphological boundaries — /k/ becomes /č/, /g/ becomes /ž/ in inflected forms. A lip-reader who knows the base form of a word does not predict what the inflected form will look like. These alternations appear constantly in rapid natural speech.
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Download on theApp StoreHearing loss in Slovenia: the scale of daily exclusion
Slovenia, with a population of just over 2.1 million, follows European hearing loss prevalence trends — meaning an estimated 200,000 to 420,000 Slovenians live with some degree of hearing difficulty. A 2025 review in Audiology Research (PMC12101339) found that people with hearing loss consistently face compounded barriers: stigma that deters help-seeking, socio-cultural differences in how hearing disability is perceived, and significant accessibility gaps across education, employment, and social settings. In Slovenia, as across Europe, the gap between the number of people affected and the number receiving appropriate support is substantial.
A systematic review of hearing loss, loneliness, and social isolation (PMC8292986) found strong associations between untreated hearing loss and reduced participation in community life — a pattern that is especially pronounced at informal social gatherings where no formal accessibility support exists. Slovenia's sign language (Slovenian Sign Language, SZJ) has constitutional and legal recognition, but interpreter availability outside Ljubljana is uneven, and spontaneous social settings like family dinners, neighbourhood gatherings, and community events have no structured captioning provision.
Captio AI captions Slovenian conversation in real time, so a deaf or hard-of-hearing person can follow a family dinner in Ljubljana or a neighbourhood gathering in Maribor without depending on a scarce interpreter or asking others to repeat.
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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
"Family Sunday lunches with my parents and grandparents used to be the hardest part of my week. Now I read the whole conversation on my phone and actually laugh at the right moments."
"My grandparents speak a Štajerska dialect that is nothing like Ljubljana Slovenian. Captio AI handles the variation. Family visits feel completely different now."
"At Carinthian Slovenian gatherings the language switches between Slovenian and German mid-conversation. Captio AI follows both. I stopped feeling like a spectator at my own community events."
"The Littoral dialect my family speaks is very different from what I learned in school. I used to struggle at every gathering. Captio AI gives me the transcript and the rest takes care of itself."
"Family Sunday lunches with my parents and grandparents used to be the hardest part of my week. Now I read the whole conversation on my phone and actually laugh at the right moments."
"My grandparents speak a Štajerska dialect that is nothing like Ljubljana Slovenian. Captio AI handles the variation. Family visits feel completely different now."
"At Carinthian Slovenian gatherings the language switches between Slovenian and German mid-conversation. Captio AI follows both. I stopped feeling like a spectator at my own community events."
"The Littoral dialect my family speaks is very different from what I learned in school. I used to struggle at every gathering. Captio AI gives me the transcript and the rest takes care of itself."
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Keep up with the group in Slovenian.
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