Turkish live captions and productivity tool for group settings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Turkish group settings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Turkish 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 Ramazan Bayramı or Kurban Bayramı family gathering where relatives from different regions of Turkey come together and fast colloquial Turkish flows across the table for hours. Captio AI captions each voice so you follow the whole celebration.
A Sunday family lunch at home in Istanbul, Ankara, or Izmir where regional accents — Black Sea, Anatolian, or southeastern — mix at the same table. Captio AI handles each variety.
A neighbourhood muhabbet (informal gathering) or balcony conversation in a Turkish apartment block where fast colloquial Turkish with dropped particles makes lip-reading very challenging. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking near your phone.
A multigenerational family gathering where grandparents speak a regional dialect and grandchildren speak Istanbul-standard Turkish. Captio AI follows both registers without adjustment.
A social gathering at a local café or tea house (çayhane) where fast casual Turkish at a table of friends runs without pause and without accommodation for anyone not keeping up. Captio AI gives you real-time captions of every exchange.
A community event at a mosque or neighbourhood association where formal Turkish in the address transitions to fast colloquial conversation during the social hour. 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 Turkish is hard to understand
Agglutinative suffix stacking
- Turkish words grow longer as meaning accumulates at the end — the most important parts are last
- Turkish is highly agglutinative — suffixes stack at the end of words to carry tense, mood, negation, person, and grammatical relations that other languages express in separate words: 'gidiyormuşsunuz' (it seems you are going). In fast social speech, these long suffixed words are produced rapidly with the meaningful suffixes appearing at the very end. For a lip-reader, long words are harder to track than short ones, and the grammatically critical suffix arrives last in a stream that has already moved on.
Vowel harmony system
- Turkish vowel harmony changes the sound of every suffix depending on the root word
- Turkish has an 8-vowel system where front/back and rounded/unrounded vowel harmony governs every suffix in the language. The same grammatical suffix appears as different vowel sequences depending on the noun it attaches to. In fast social speech, vowel harmony patterns interact with speech rate in ways that change the vowel sounds heard throughout connected speech. A deaf person lip-reading Turkish must track vowel harmony across entire words and their suffixes — a cognitively demanding task at normal conversation speed.
Regional dialect variation
- Black Sea, Eastern Anatolian, and Istanbul Turkish carry distinct phonological patterns
- Turkish has distinct regional varieties. Black Sea (Karadeniz) Turkish has different consonant patterns and prosody. Eastern Anatolian Turkish is influenced by Kurdish and Arabic. Southeastern Turkish reflects contact with Arabic and Kurdish communities. Istanbul Turkish is the formal standard. At a family gathering where relatives come from different parts of Turkey, these regional differences appear in the same conversation without signal — and a deaf person calibrated to Istanbul standard encounters unfamiliar phonological patterns in Black Sea or Eastern speakers.
Turkish-Kurdish code-switching
- In southeastern Turkey and diaspora communities, Turkish and Kurdish appear in the same conversation
- In southeastern Turkey and in Turkish diaspora communities in Germany and the Netherlands — where Kurdish-background speakers are common — Turkish and Kurdish appear in the same conversation at social gatherings. The switch is unannounced. A deaf person following Turkish loses the thread when Kurdish appears, and in communities where both languages are present, this can happen throughout the gathering.
Particle and copula dropping
- Casual Turkish drops the grammatical elements that make formal Turkish parseable
- Turkish informal social speech drops copulas, subjects, and particles that make formal Turkish fully explicit. The constructions that appear in educational or broadcast Turkish — complete with all grammatical elements in order — are replaced in casual conversation with minimal forms where what appears on the lips is a fragment that relies on shared context. A deaf person prepared for formal Turkish encounters a different syntactic environment at every family dinner or friend gathering.
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Download on theApp Store429,000 deaf in Turkey. A disability rights law with enduring implementation gaps.
Turkey has an estimated 429,000 deaf people, with a larger number of people with moderate or mild hearing loss placing the total hearing-impaired population considerably higher. Turkey signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and passed Law No. 5378 on disability rights — described by researchers as a major step forward on paper, but marked by enduring obstacles that prevent the deaf community from being fully included in social life. The Turkish Deaf Association (TDH) has documented persistent gaps between legal protection and lived experience.
Sign language interpretation provision in Turkey has been inconsistent. A review of Turkish Sign Language (TID) certification programmes found significant issues in 2007 and 2013, including weak exam guidelines and training that lacked practice with native signers. The Ministry of National Education introduced revised standards in 2020 with more training hours and a greater emphasis on deaf cultural competency — a positive development that nonetheless means interpreter quality has historically been variable. In informal social settings — the bayram gathering, the family dinner, the neighbourhood event — formal interpretation is not available in any case, and no communication support structure exists.
Captio AI captions Turkish in real time — across Istanbul standard, Black Sea varieties, and eastern Anatolian accents — so the Bayram family gathering, the Sunday lunch, and the neighbourhood muhabbet are conversations a deaf or hard of hearing person can follow without lip-reading a language whose meaning accumulates at the end of long agglutinative words.
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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
"Bayram gatherings in my family are three days of nonstop conversation. I used to disappear after lunch because the effort was too much. Captio AI on the table means I stay for the whole thing."
"Karadeniz dialect is different enough from Istanbul Turkish that it genuinely throws me. Captio AI captions my family's actual speech. That matters more than I can explain."
"Turkish diaspora gatherings in Berlin mix Turkish, German, and Kurdish depending on who's in the room. Captio AI follows the Turkish sections and I know when the language changes."
"Turkish is hard enough to lip-read in a quiet room. At a family dinner with ten people it's impossible. Captio AI changed what family gatherings mean to me."
"Bayram gatherings in my family are three days of nonstop conversation. I used to disappear after lunch because the effort was too much. Captio AI on the table means I stay for the whole thing."
"Karadeniz dialect is different enough from Istanbul Turkish that it genuinely throws me. Captio AI captions my family's actual speech. That matters more than I can explain."
"Turkish diaspora gatherings in Berlin mix Turkish, German, and Kurdish depending on who's in the room. Captio AI follows the Turkish sections and I know when the language changes."
"Turkish is hard enough to lip-read in a quiet room. At a family dinner with ten people it's impossible. Captio AI changed what family gatherings mean to me."
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Keep up with the group in Turkish.
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