Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Azerbaijani live captions and productivity tool for job interviews

For deaf and hard of hearing people.

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Use Cases

Every situation covered

Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.

👔In-person interviews

In a Baku office — an interviewer speaking Azerbaijani at corporate pace, possibly mixing with Russian. Captio AI captions every question in real time so you read the full sentence before responding.

💻Video interviews

Video interviews on Zoom or Teams — increasingly standard for Azerbaijani companies and international employers. Put the call on speaker and follow every question in real time.

📞Phone screens and initial calls

The initial HR screening call in Azerbaijani — fast, formal, with literary vocabulary. Captio AI captions the recruiter's voice in real time so nothing is lost over the phone.

👥Panel interviews

Panel interviews at Azerbaijani companies, government institutions, or oil sector employers. Captio AI follows each panelist in real time even when questions come in rapid succession.

🌍International and foreign-language interviews

For roles at international firms operating in Azerbaijan where interviews shift between Azerbaijani, Russian, and English. Live Translator handles all three in the same session.

🎯Assessment centres

Structured competency assessments — used at major Azerbaijani employers in the energy, banking, and telecom sectors. Captio AI covers all facilitator speech and candidate interaction.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Azerbaijani
92.1%

word accuracy

independent benchmark, 2025

< 200ms
you speak
captions

real-time captions

first word appears as you speak

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Captio AI in everyday use
Why Captio AI

Built for the room where a missed word has real consequences

Read the full question before you answer

Every word appears on screen as the interviewer speaks. You read the question completely before responding — nothing guessed, nothing reconstructed.

Works in person and on any call format

In-person interviews, video calls, phone screens. Place the phone on the table or point it toward the audio — Captio AI handles every format.

Discreet by design

The app runs quietly on your phone. Place it on the table or hold it naturally. No explanation needed, no drawing attention to the accommodation.

No asking for repeats

Asking an interviewer to repeat a question signals uncertainty. Captio AI means you never need to — you read it in real time and answer with confidence.

Any language

For international roles, multilingual panels, or interviews conducted in a second language. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so language is never the barrier.

Private by default

Interview conversations are sensitive. Captio AI processes audio in real time and discards it immediately — nothing is stored, nothing is shared.

Azerbaijani

Why Azerbaijani is hard to understand

Vowel harmony suffix chains

  • Suffix vowels harmonize with the root — compressing into rapid identical sequences
  • Azerbaijani has strict vowel harmony: every suffix vowel matches the backness and roundness of the root vowel. In a formal interview question, a long agglutinated word produces multiple suffix vowels all harmonically consistent with the root — a rapid sequence of similar vowel qualities at professional speech rates, where distinguishing one suffix from another by lip shape alone becomes unreliable.

Back-throat consonants

  • Azerbaijani's velar and uvular sounds produce no visible lip movement
  • Azerbaijani has velar fricatives (x /x/) and uvular sounds in borrowed vocabulary that are produced at the back of the throat — far behind the lips. In a formal Baku office interview, these consonants appear in common words and produce no visible lip movement whatsoever for a deaf candidate watching the interviewer's face.

Azerbaijani-Russian switching

  • Older corporate environments switch between Azerbaijani and Russian mid-sentence
  • Azerbaijan's urban professional environment — particularly among workers who trained in the Soviet era — frequently switches between Azerbaijani and Russian within the same conversation. A deaf candidate tracking Azerbaijani may be watching Russian phrases they were not expecting, and the switch is not visible as a language change on the lips.

Formal register gap

  • Official interview Azerbaijani uses Persian and Arabic loanwords unlike everyday speech
  • Formal Standard Azerbaijani used in government and corporate interview contexts draws on Persian and Arabic-origin vocabulary distinct from everyday colloquial Baku speech. A deaf candidate whose visual vocabulary comes from everyday interactions may not recognize formal interview terms from their lip shapes alone.

SOV sentence structure

  • The predicate arrives at the end — after all the subordinate clauses
  • Azerbaijani is a Subject-Object-Verb language. The main verb — the word that tells you what kind of question was asked — arrives at the very end of the sentence, after all objects and modifiers. In a formal compound interview question, a deaf candidate must track the entire sentence before reaching the predicate that determines what the question actually is.

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The Challenge

Hearing-impaired people in Azerbaijan face severe education and employment barriers

A detailed longread published by CABAR.asia (Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting) documents the situation of hearing-impaired people in Kazakhstan, and the same structural barriers appear across the broader Caucasus and Central Asian region including Azerbaijan: 'It is very difficult for hearing-impaired people to get education, with children studying mainly at college where sign language interpreters work.' Late identification, specialist education concentrated in specific institutions, and a subsequent narrowing of employment pathways creates a pipeline problem that the interview stage compounds. Azerbaijan's Law on Social Protection of Persons with Disabilities provides a framework, but implementation in the hiring process — particularly at the interview stage — is inconsistent.

Azerbaijan's economy is dominated by the energy sector (oil and gas), banking, telecoms, and a growing IT industry centred in Baku. The interview formats at major oil-sector employers and international companies operating in Baku are structured verbal processes conducted in Azerbaijani, Russian, or English depending on the employer. A deaf or hard of hearing candidate attending these interviews faces a bilingual or trilingual environment where questions may shift language mid-sentence, and where no standard provision for captioning or sign language interpretation exists at the interview stage.

The WHO Global Hearing Report documents that hearing loss in the Europe and Central Asia region is among the least resourced for rehabilitation and accommodation services. Azerbaijan, as an upper-middle-income country, has disability legislation but limited specialist interpreter provision outside major urban centres. A deaf candidate attending an interview in Baku's oil or banking sector has no guarantee of access support. Captio AI requires no employer arrangement: open the app, place the phone on the desk, and every Azerbaijani question — including the predicate at the end of the sentence — appears in real time.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

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.

100% PRIVATE

Private by default

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"The interview switched between Azerbaijani and English mid-question. I had Captio AI on the table and read every question clearly in whichever language it came in. I got through to the final round."

Leyla H. 🇦🇿
leyla.h***@gmail.com
Moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Baku

"Oil sector interviews in Baku use formal Azerbaijani with a lot of Russian vocabulary mixed in. Captio AI followed everything. I answered every question correctly."

Farid A. 🇦🇿
farid.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Baku

"The phone screening was in fast Azerbaijani. I could not follow at all without Captio AI. With it I had every word and passed to the next stage."

Aysel M. 🇦🇿
aysel.m***@gmail.com
Sensorineural hearing loss, Baku

"The panel had three people asking questions in Azerbaijani and English. Captio AI tracked whoever was speaking and I followed every question without asking for a repeat."

Nihat R. 🇦🇿
nihat.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Baku

"The interview switched between Azerbaijani and English mid-question. I had Captio AI on the table and read every question clearly in whichever language it came in. I got through to the final round."

Leyla H. 🇦🇿
leyla.h***@gmail.com
Moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Baku

"Oil sector interviews in Baku use formal Azerbaijani with a lot of Russian vocabulary mixed in. Captio AI followed everything. I answered every question correctly."

Farid A. 🇦🇿
farid.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Baku

"The phone screening was in fast Azerbaijani. I could not follow at all without Captio AI. With it I had every word and passed to the next stage."

Aysel M. 🇦🇿
aysel.m***@gmail.com
Sensorineural hearing loss, Baku

"The panel had three people asking questions in Azerbaijani and English. Captio AI tracked whoever was speaking and I followed every question without asking for a repeat."

Nihat R. 🇦🇿
nihat.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Baku

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FAQ

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