Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Czech 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 Prague, Brno, or Ostrava office — an interviewer speaking literary Czech at corporate pace. Captio AI captions every question in real time so you read the full sentence before responding.

💻Video interviews

Video interviews on Teams or Zoom — standard for remote rounds at Czech companies. Put the call on speaker and follow every question in real time.

📞Phone screens and initial calls

The initial HR screening call in Czech — fast, formal, with dense consonant clusters and the ř phoneme throughout. Captio AI captions in real time so nothing is lost.

👥Panel interviews

Panel interviews at Czech companies, public institutions, or multinationals. Captio AI follows each panelist in real time even when questions come rapidly from different speakers.

🌍International and foreign-language interviews

For roles at international firms where the interview shifts between Czech and English. Live Translator handles both in the same session without manual switching.

🎯Assessment centres

Assessment centre exercises and competency interviews — common at major Czech banks, telecoms, and graduate employers. Captio AI covers all facilitator speech and candidate interaction.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Czech
90.3%

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.

Czech

Why Czech is hard to understand

The ř phoneme

  • Czech's unique ř has no equivalent in any other language — and no visible lip shape
  • Czech's ř /r̝/ — a simultaneous alveolar trill and voiced fricative — is unique to Czech and produces no distinctive lip movement. The sound is produced by the tongue tip vibrating against the alveolar ridge while maintaining friction, deep inside the mouth. Czech speakers themselves acknowledge ř is one of the hardest sounds in the language even for hearing learners. In a Prague interview, ř appears in common words (řekl, práce, příště) and is completely invisible to a lip-reader.

Consonant cluster density

  • Czech allows multiple initial consonants — impossible to segment visually
  • Czech permits initial consonant clusters of two to four consonants — words like 'vzpomínáte', 'čtvrtletní', 'přesto'. Even everyday Czech words begin with consonant pairs (pracovní, správně). In fast Prague interview speech, these clusters produce dense consonant sequences that must be tracked without inter-consonant pauses.

Voicing assimilation

  • Czech changes consonant voicing across word boundaries in fast speech
  • Czech applies voicing assimilation: the final consonant of a cluster determines the voicing of all preceding consonants in the cluster. In fast interview speech, voiced consonants become voiceless before voiceless consonants across word boundaries, and vice versa. The phonological form of words at boundaries changes in ways that don't match their citation forms.

Phonemic vowel length

  • Long and short vowels change meaning but compress in fast speech
  • Czech has distinctive long vowels (á, é, í, ó, ú, ý) that can change word meaning. Long vowels are twice the duration of short vowels. In fast formal interview speech, this duration distinction compresses, and the visual difference between 'pán' (gentleman) and 'pan' (Mr.) or 'byl' and 'být' becomes unreliable.

Common vs literary register

  • Formal interview Czech uses literary vocabulary unlike Common Czech
  • Czech has two co-existing spoken systems: literary Czech (used in formal interviews, official contexts, and broadcasts) and Common Czech (Obecná čeština, used in everyday colloquial Bohemian speech). The two systems differ in verb endings, some phonological processes, and vocabulary. A deaf candidate's visual vocabulary from informal speech may not match the forms used in a Prague corporate or government interview.

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The Challenge

Czech Republic's disability employment gap sits 7.8 points below the non-disabled rate — and the interview is a primary barrier

Eurostat data shows a 7.8 percentage point gap between the employment rate of disabled and non-disabled people in the Czech Republic — modest by Central and Eastern European standards, but still representing a significant number of people excluded from the labour market. An IZA Journal study on disability and employment across Central and Eastern European countries found that Czech Republic shows better relative outcomes than neighbours like Hungary, but that the interview stage remains a consistent point of exclusion for candidates with communication-related disabilities including hearing loss.

The Czech labour market has seen strong performance in recent years, with major employment centres in Prague, Brno, and Ostrava hosting automotive, engineering, IT, and financial services sectors. These employers run structured verbal interview processes without standard captioning accommodation. Czech disability legislation and EU frameworks require reasonable accommodation, but interview-stage provision — captioning, sign language interpretation — is not consistently offered, and requesting it in advance can introduce bias at the shortlisting stage.

Czech's linguistic structure creates a distinct access barrier for deaf candidates. The ř phoneme — unique to Czech among world languages — is invisible on the lips and appears constantly in Czech speech. Dense initial consonant clusters are common in everyday vocabulary. Long-short vowel pairs carry lexical meaning but compress in fast speech. And literary Czech — the register used in formal interviews — differs from Common Czech in endings and some forms. Captio AI requires no employer arrangement: open the app at the start of the pohovor, place the phone on the desk, and every Czech sentence — ř and all — is available in real time from audio.

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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

"Czech ř just vanishes from lip reading — I lose every word containing it. Captio AI gave me every word from the audio. I answered the full interview and got through to the offer."

Tereza N. 🇨🇿
tereza.n***@gmail.com
Moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Prague

"The IT interview was in literary Czech with a lot of technical terms and consonant clusters. Captio AI gave me every word. I answered every technical question correctly."

Marek V. 🇨🇿
marek.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Brno

"The panel interview had three people asking questions in Czech and English. Captio AI followed both. I gave complete answers to every question."

Jana K. 🇨🇿
jana.k***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Prague

"Phone screens in Czech are the hardest format. Fast speech, dense clusters, no video. Captio AI captioned everything. I passed the screen and moved to the full interview."

Ondřej B. 🇨🇿
ondrej.b***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Ostrava

"Czech ř just vanishes from lip reading — I lose every word containing it. Captio AI gave me every word from the audio. I answered the full interview and got through to the offer."

Tereza N. 🇨🇿
tereza.n***@gmail.com
Moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Prague

"The IT interview was in literary Czech with a lot of technical terms and consonant clusters. Captio AI gave me every word. I answered every technical question correctly."

Marek V. 🇨🇿
marek.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Brno

"The panel interview had three people asking questions in Czech and English. Captio AI followed both. I gave complete answers to every question."

Jana K. 🇨🇿
jana.k***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Prague

"Phone screens in Czech are the hardest format. Fast speech, dense clusters, no video. Captio AI captioned everything. I passed the screen and moved to the full interview."

Ondřej B. 🇨🇿
ondrej.b***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Ostrava

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FAQ

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