Danish live captions and productivity tool for job interviews
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Danish job interviews
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Danish speakers.
Read the question before you answer
- Every word appears in real time as the interviewer speaks
- Works in person, on video calls, and on the phone
- Discreet — runs quietly on your phone
- No asking for repeats
For interviews in another language
- Captions and translates in real time
- For international employers or roles abroad
- 60+ languages, no setup
- Follow every question in the language you think in
Review the interview afterwards
- Record and transcribe to revisit questions and your answers
- Useful for preparing for follow-up rounds
- Identify what you want to clarify in a second interview
- Works on any recording
Key topics and questions extracted
- Main themes and questions pulled from any interview transcript
- Useful for post-interview reflection and follow-up
- Organised into sections
- Works on any saved recording
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Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
Danish interviews often take place in a relaxed conversational tone — the famously informal Nordic office culture means interviewers speak at natural speed with significant vowel reduction. Captio AI captures every word even when speech is soft and fast.
Video interviews are standard across Danish companies. The compressed audio of a Teams or Zoom call amplifies Danish's already-swallowed vowels. Captio AI keeps up with it in real time.
Danish phone screens move quickly and informal filler words drop syllables that are already hard to track. Captio AI captions the recruiter's speech as it happens, without a video feed.
Danish panel interviews may include speakers from different regions — a Jutlandic interviewer sounds noticeably different from a Copenhagen speaker. Captio AI handles both in the same room without any adjustment.
Many Danish companies conduct part of the interview in English before switching back to Danish. Captio AI covers both languages in the same session without any mode change.
Group assessment tasks in Denmark involve fast collaborative discussion in Danish. Captio AI helps you follow who is speaking and what is being asked, even in a busy room.
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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.
Why Danish is hard to understand
Stød — the invisible feature
- A phoneme with no face
- Danish stød is a laryngeal feature — creaky voice or a brief glottal closure — that distinguishes minimal pairs such as hun ('she') and hund ('dog'). It exists entirely in the larynx with zero lip or face movement. A deaf reader cannot detect it at all, yet it changes meaning throughout the interview.
Vowel swallowing
- Syllables that vanish in casual speech
- Danish has some of the most extreme vowel reduction of any European language. In natural conversational speech, unstressed syllables collapse toward near-silence. An interviewer speaking at a natural pace may reduce entire words to a central vowel and a consonant edge.
Jutlandic–Copenhagen divergence
- Two very different accents
- A Jutlandic interviewer and a Copenhagen interviewer sound strikingly different — Jutlandic lacks stød, shifts vowels, and has different prosody. The speech pattern you prepared for in one city can fail completely in another.
Soft-D deletion
- Consonants that disappear
- The Danish soft d (/ð/) is a weak approximant that often disappears entirely in casual speech. Common word endings in -de, -et, and -ede drop the consonant in natural delivery, and frequent function words merge into near-identical shapes.
Clipped prosody
- Fewer cues, less redundancy
- Danish sentences tend to be tonally flat compared to other Scandinavian languages. The rhythmic cues that help predict word boundaries are weaker, giving a deaf interviewer fewer redundant signals to reconstruct what was said.
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A study of deaf and hard of hearing adults in Denmark published in the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research found that only 38% were employed, compared with 67% in a randomly selected reference group — a gap of nearly 30 percentage points in one of Europe's most generous welfare states. This gap persists despite Denmark's strong anti-discrimination legislation and well-resourced labour market services, suggesting that structural barriers beyond legal protection continue to limit DHH Danes' career progression.
The 2025 EFHOH 'Towards Inclusive Employment' report, covering Nordic countries, identified fatigue as the leading driver of reduced working hours among hard of hearing employees. In a typical Danish workplace — open-plan offices, meetings in minimalist rooms with hard surfaces, a culture of rapid casual conversation — the cognitive load of tracking speech without full hearing accumulates across a day. For job seekers, that same load is concentrated into the single high-stakes hour of an interview.
Statistics Denmark tracks approximately 800,000 Danes — around 14% of the population — as having some degree of hearing difficulty, yet occupational accommodation and interpreter provision remain inconsistent across employers. The WHO World Report on Hearing (2021) flagged that globally, fewer than 17% of those who need hearing aids have access to them. Captio AI fills this gap for deaf and hard of hearing job seekers in Copenhagen, Aarhus, and Odense who need to follow every word of a Danish interview — instantly, without an interpreter, and without advance notice.
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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.
Private by default
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People love Captio AI
"My interviewer spoke in fast Copenhagen Danish with vowels that almost disappeared. Captio AI caught every word. First time I made it through a first interview without guessing half the questions."
"The Jutlandic accent in the Aarhus interview was completely different from the Copenhagen Danish I'd practised on. Captio AI handled it without any problem. I didn't miss a single question."
"Video interview on Teams with compressed audio made the Danish even harder to follow than usual. Captio AI captioned the call in real time. I answered every question correctly and got to the next round."
"Panel with four interviewers, all talking at slightly different speeds. Captio AI kept up with every speaker. I walked out knowing I'd caught everything that was asked."
"My interviewer spoke in fast Copenhagen Danish with vowels that almost disappeared. Captio AI caught every word. First time I made it through a first interview without guessing half the questions."
"The Jutlandic accent in the Aarhus interview was completely different from the Copenhagen Danish I'd practised on. Captio AI handled it without any problem. I didn't miss a single question."
"Video interview on Teams with compressed audio made the Danish even harder to follow than usual. Captio AI captioned the call in real time. I answered every question correctly and got to the next round."
"Panel with four interviewers, all talking at slightly different speeds. Captio AI kept up with every speaker. I walked out knowing I'd caught everything that was asked."
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Hear every question in Danish.
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