Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Bosnian 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

Bosnian corporate interviews in Sarajevo may be conducted in Bosnian, Croatian, or Serbian depending on the employer and the interviewer. Captio AI handles all three official language varieties in real time so you are prepared for any opening.

💻Video interviews

Video interviews over Teams or Zoom are standard at Bosnian companies and internationally linked firms in Sarajevo and Mostar. Captio AI captions the call audio in real time whatever language is used.

📞Phone screens and initial calls

Initial phone screens at Bosnian firms are conducted in the interviewer's preferred official language. Captio AI captions the recruiter's speech live without a video feed.

👥Panel interviews

Panel interviews in Bosnia may include speakers from different communities each using a different official language. Captio AI handles all varieties in the same room without any adjustment.

🌍International and foreign-language interviews

International companies operating in Bosnia sometimes conduct rounds in English before returning to one of the official languages. Captio AI covers English alongside Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian in the same session.

🎯Assessment centres

Group assessment exercises at Bosnian employers involve collaborative tasks that may draw on whichever language the group settles into. Captio AI helps you follow every speaker regardless of which official variety they use.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Bosnian
93.4%

word accuracy

independent benchmark, 2025

< 200ms
you speak
captions

real-time captions

first word appears as you speak

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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.

Bosnian

Why Bosnian is hard to understand

Pitch accent system

  • Four tones, no visible signal
  • Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian shares a four-way pitch accent system — rising and falling on long and short vowels. Two words with identical lip shapes carry entirely different meanings depending on their tonal contour, which is auditory only and leaves no trace on the face.

Three-language office environment

  • Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian in the same interview
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina recognises Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian as co-official languages. In a panel interview, different panelists may use different official languages — shifting vocabulary, pronunciation, and register mid-session without warning.

Turkish and Arabic loanwords

  • A vocabulary layer with different phonology
  • Bosnian has retained a large layer of Turkish and Arabic loanwords from the Ottoman period. These words carry phonological patterns — including pharyngeal-adjacent sounds and front rounded vowels — that differ from the Slavic base and introduce unfamiliar shapes for a lip-reader calibrated on Slavic phonology.

Ijekavian vowel complexity

  • Historical vowel that varies by word
  • Standard Bosnian uses Ijekavian pronunciation, where the historical yat vowel is realised as ije or je depending on syllable length. The distribution of these realisations is lexically specific — a deaf reader must track which form a given word takes rather than applying a simple rule.

Formal register compression

  • Function words that collapse under pace
  • In a formal Bosnian job interview, common prepositions, conjunctions, and auxiliary verbs reduce under natural speaking pace. The grammatical scaffolding that tells a deaf reader what the content words mean compresses toward near-silence.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Research analysing 1,044 deaf and hard of hearing persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina found that 455 were registered at employment offices while 589 relied on social care centres for financial support — a ratio that illustrates both the scale of un-employment and the degree of dependence on welfare systems rather than labour market participation. The study, published through academic channels, highlighted professional rehabilitation as a key gap: without systematic support for entering formal employment, many deaf Bosnians remain outside the labour market across their working lives.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's disability policy framework remains fragmented across its complex constitutional structure — the Federation, the Republika Srpska, and the Brčko District each maintain separate legislation. This fragmentation means that deaf citizens' rights to workplace accommodation, sign language interpretation, and captioning in recruitment are applied unevenly across entities and cantons, with many employers having no clear obligation to provide communication support during a job interview.

The WHO World Report on Hearing (2021) estimated the global annual economic cost of unaddressed hearing loss at over USD 980 billion, with working-age adults in lower-middle-income and transitional economies bearing a disproportionate share. For deaf and hard of hearing job seekers in Sarajevo, Mostar, and Banja Luka, Captio AI provides real-time captions the moment the interviewer speaks — in any of the three official languages — without an interpreter or any advance arrangement.

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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

"One panelist used Croatian, another used Bosnian. Captio AI followed both without any adjustment. I finally got through a panel interview without losing track of which language I was supposed to be following."

Amra H. 🇧🇦
amra.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, Sarajevo

"The pitch accent distinctions in Bosnian were always invisible to me. Captio AI captures them from the audio. Every question in the Mostar interview came through accurately."

Damir K. 🇧🇦
damir.k***@gmail.com
Sensorineural hearing loss, Mostar

"International company interview that started in English and moved to Bosnian for the competency questions. Captio AI tracked both throughout. I walked out knowing I'd heard everything."

Belma J. 🇧🇦
belma.j***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Sarajevo

"The Banja Luka interview used Serbian forms throughout. Captio AI handled them perfectly. First interview I've left feeling I actually got to demonstrate my ability rather than just my hearing."

Haris T. 🇧🇦
haris.t***@gmail.com
Deaf since age 6, Banja Luka

"One panelist used Croatian, another used Bosnian. Captio AI followed both without any adjustment. I finally got through a panel interview without losing track of which language I was supposed to be following."

Amra H. 🇧🇦
amra.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, Sarajevo

"The pitch accent distinctions in Bosnian were always invisible to me. Captio AI captures them from the audio. Every question in the Mostar interview came through accurately."

Damir K. 🇧🇦
damir.k***@gmail.com
Sensorineural hearing loss, Mostar

"International company interview that started in English and moved to Bosnian for the competency questions. Captio AI tracked both throughout. I walked out knowing I'd heard everything."

Belma J. 🇧🇦
belma.j***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Sarajevo

"The Banja Luka interview used Serbian forms throughout. Captio AI handled them perfectly. First interview I've left feeling I actually got to demonstrate my ability rather than just my hearing."

Haris T. 🇧🇦
haris.t***@gmail.com
Deaf since age 6, Banja Luka

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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