Telugu live captions and productivity tool for group settings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Telugu group settings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Telugu 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 Dasara or Ugadi family gathering in Vijayawada or Hyderabad where relatives from Coastal Andhra and Telangana both attend and speak their regional variety. Captio AI captions each voice so you follow the whole celebration.
A family Sunday lunch in Hyderabad where Telugu, Urdu loanwords, and English appear in the same sentence and nobody notices the transitions. Captio AI captions the full exchange.
A neighbourhood gathering or apartment society event in Hyderabad where multiple Telugu speakers contribute quickly with no formal captioning. Captio AI gives you real-time captions of every speaker.
A multigenerational family gathering where grandparents speak Coastal Andhra dialect and grandchildren speak Hyderabadi Telugu. Captio AI handles each variety in the same session.
A social gathering with friends at a tiffin centre or local restaurant where fast urban Telugu makes lip-reading very difficult. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking near your phone.
A community temple event or cultural association gathering where formal Telugu in the ceremony transitions to fast social conversation. Captio AI follows both registers.
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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 Telugu is hard to understand
Andhra vs Telangana dialect
- Coastal Andhra and Telangana Telugu are phonologically distinct at the family table
- Telugu has two major spoken dialect groups: Coastal Andhra (Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam) and Telangana (Hyderabad), with Rayalaseema forming a third. These differ substantially in vocabulary, case markers, and verb endings — Telangana Telugu absorbs Urdu and Hindi words due to Hyderabadi historical influence, while Coastal Andhra retains classical vocabulary. A gathering where Andhra and Telangana relatives attend presents two phonological systems, and a deaf person calibrated to one encounters a different speech environment when the other appears.
Hyderabadi Telugu-Urdu mixing
- Hyderabadi Telugu has absorbed Urdu vocabulary so thoroughly that everyday speech is a linguistic hybrid
- In Telangana and Hyderabad, Urdu words appear in sentences that are otherwise Telugu — not as code-switching but as integrated borrowings so common that speakers don't register them as foreign. For a deaf person lip-reading Telugu, this produces an unpredictable vocabulary environment where known Telugu phonological patterns suddenly produce an Urdu word. The visual form of the lips does not signal which language the word comes from.
Telugu-English code-switching
- Urban Hyderabad tech and educated gatherings mix Telugu and English constantly
- In Hyderabad, Vijayawada, and Bengaluru's Telugu community, educated speakers move between Telugu and English mid-sentence: 'Aa meeting lo manager cheppadu that we need to revise everything.' In tech circles — Hyderabad is a major IT hub — this can happen multiple times per minute. A deaf person tracking Telugu loses the thread each time, and in Hyderabad social gatherings the switching is so frequent it cannot be anticipated.
Retroflex consonants
- Telugu's retroflex sounds are produced where the lips cannot show them
- Telugu has a rich retroflex consonant series (ట ఠ డ ఢ ణ ళ ఱ) produced with the tongue curled back to touch the hard palate. These sounds are invisible on the lips — the visible articulators (lips, teeth, tongue tip) do not participate in retroflex production. For a deaf person lip-reading Telugu, this entire consonant class is not recoverable from visual information, yet it appears in high-frequency vocabulary throughout everyday speech.
Social register drop
- The Telugu of family gatherings is substantially faster and more reduced than any formal variety
- Telugu has formal and colloquial registers that differ substantially. At a family gathering in Telugu, case markers are dropped, pronouns omitted, and verb forms contracted to their shortest possible shape. The formal Telugu of education or media is not the language of the family lunch or the neighbourhood event — and a deaf person trained on the formal variety encounters a phonologically different register at every social gathering.
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Download on theApp Store63 million in India with hearing impairment. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana together carry millions of those cases.
India is home to approximately 63 million people with significant hearing impairment — 6.3% of the total population. Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, with a combined population exceeding 90 million, carry a proportional share of this burden. The National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness (NPPCD) is active across both states, but clinical provision does not address everyday social life — the family gathering, the neighbourhood event, and the community celebration where communication exclusion is most felt.
A review of challenges facing hearing-impaired people in India found consistent patterns of social isolation from family and friends and unsympathetic attitudes in social settings — outcomes particularly acute in the large multigenerational family contexts that are central to Telugu social life. India has only around 250 trained sign language interpreters for its entire deaf population, meaning professional communication support is simply unavailable for any informal social setting. Telugu Sign Language exists as a community resource, but it reaches only a fraction of Telugu deaf and hard of hearing people.
Captio AI captions Telugu in real time — including Telangana dialect, Coastal Andhra varieties, Hyderabadi Telugu-Urdu mixing, and Telugu-English code-switching — so the Dasara family gathering, the Sunday lunch in Vijayawada, and the Hyderabad neighbourhood event are conversations a deaf or hard of hearing Telugu speaker can follow without watching faces and guessing at three-language mixing.
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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.
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People love Captio AI
"Hyderabad gatherings are Telugu-Urdu-English all in one sentence and nobody signals the switch. I was missing everything. Captio AI follows the whole mix."
"Coastal Andhra Telugu at a family Dasara gathering is fast and specific and nothing like Hyderabadi Telugu. Captio AI handles both so I follow my relatives wherever they're from."
"Family gatherings with three generations of Telugu speakers — each speaking a different register — used to leave me exhausted. Captio AI on the table means I stay in the conversation the whole time."
"Telangana dialect is very different from standard Telugu and I couldn't lip-read it at all. Captio AI captions the real speech. It's not the textbook version — it's what my family actually says."
"Hyderabad gatherings are Telugu-Urdu-English all in one sentence and nobody signals the switch. I was missing everything. Captio AI follows the whole mix."
"Coastal Andhra Telugu at a family Dasara gathering is fast and specific and nothing like Hyderabadi Telugu. Captio AI handles both so I follow my relatives wherever they're from."
"Family gatherings with three generations of Telugu speakers — each speaking a different register — used to leave me exhausted. Captio AI on the table means I stay in the conversation the whole time."
"Telangana dialect is very different from standard Telugu and I couldn't lip-read it at all. Captio AI captions the real speech. It's not the textbook version — it's what my family actually says."
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