Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Greek 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 an Athens, Thessaloniki, or Piraeus office — an interviewer speaking formal Greek 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 Greek companies. Put the call on speaker and follow every question in real time.

📞Phone screens and initial calls

The initial HR screening call in Greek — fast, formal, with elevated vocabulary. Captio AI captions in real time so compressed audio does not become the barrier.

👥Panel interviews

Panel interviews at Greek companies, public sector organisations, or multinationals. Captio AI follows each panelist in real time even when questions arrive in quick succession.

🌍International and foreign-language interviews

For roles at international firms where interviews shift between Greek and English. Live Translator handles both in the same session without manual switching.

🎯Assessment centres

Structured assessment exercises — used at major Greek banks, shipping companies, and public sector employers. Captio AI covers all facilitator speech and candidate interaction.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Greek
92.6%

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.

Greek

Why Greek is hard to understand

Formal register legacy

  • Greek corporate interviews use elevated vocabulary with ancient Greek roots
  • While Katharevousa (the archaic formal register) was officially abolished in 1976, Modern Greek corporate and government interviews continue to use elevated vocabulary with ancient Greek roots that differs from everyday Demotic speech. A deaf candidate whose visual vocabulary comes from casual Greek conversation may not recognise the formal Latinate-or-ancient-Greek-derived terms used in an Athens banking or law firm interview.

Guttural Rho

  • The Greek ρ (rho) is produced at the back of the throat with no lip movement
  • Modern Greek ρ is typically a uvular approximant or uvular trill — produced at the back of the throat, not the front of the mouth. In fast interview speech, it produces almost no visible lip movement. Greek words containing ρ — which are very common — look identical on the lips to the same words without the ρ.

Stress-dependent meaning

  • Greek stress placement changes meaning — but stress is not visible on the lips
  • Modern Greek uses stress placement to distinguish meanings — 'πότε' (when) vs 'ποτέ' (never), 'μία' (a/one) vs 'μια' (one). In fast interview speech, stress is carried acoustically, not visually. A lip-reader cannot determine which syllable is stressed from observing lip shapes alone.

Regional phonological variation

  • Athenian, Thessaloniki, Cretan, and Cypriot Greek differ significantly
  • Standard Modern Greek is based on Athenian pronunciation, but regional varieties differ significantly. Cretan Greek has distinct consonant patterns. Cypriot Greek is substantially different from standard Modern Greek in vowel length, geminate consonants, and some vocabulary. An interview for a Cyprus-based role sounds phonologically different from an Athens interview.

Fast Athens corporate speech

  • Athens professional speech is fast with assimilation across word boundaries
  • Greek interview speech in Athens' corporate environment is fast, with consonant assimilation across word boundaries and reduced vowels in unstressed positions. In a structured formal interview, the pace does not slow — formality increases vocabulary density without increasing phonological clarity for a lip-reader.

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The Challenge

Greek deaf candidates face a national strategy still being built — and an interview format with no visual support

Greece's general employment rate in 2023 was 61.8% — 8.6 percentage points below the EU27 average. Research published in the European Journal of Special Education Research documented the implementation of the UN CRPD for deaf and hard of hearing students in Greece, finding that career guidance services for deaf students remained limited by resource constraints and ingrained institutional prejudices, and that digital inclusion efforts faced obstacles in consistent implementation. Greece's National Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2024–2030 has been identified as a potential framework for addressing these gaps — but it is a forward-looking document, not an achieved outcome.

Greece's economic sectors — shipping, tourism, banking, and technology — run hiring interviews in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Piraeus that are structured verbal processes in Greek without standard captioning. The EU Disability Forum has found that across Europe, the majority of persons with disabilities remain locked out of quality employment. In Greece, where general unemployment has historically been higher than the EU average, this exclusion is compounded by a labour market where competition for roles is intense and where any communication barrier at the interview stage reduces a candidate's prospects significantly.

Greek's linguistic structure adds a specific phonological dimension. The uvular rho produces no visible lip movement. Stress placement — which changes meaning in Greek — is acoustic, not visible. Regional variation between Athens, Thessaloniki, Crete, and Cyprus means a deaf candidate may face different lip shapes depending on the interviewer's background. Captio AI requires no employer arrangement: open the app at the start of the συνέντευξη, place the phone on the desk, and every Greek sentence — formal vocabulary and all — is available 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

"Greek corporate vocabulary sounds completely different from everyday speech. Captio AI gave me every formal word in real time. I answered every question correctly and got through to the offer."

Eleni P. 🇬🇷
eleni.p***@gmail.com
Moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Athens

"The shipping company panel was in formal Greek with a lot of industry vocabulary. Captio AI captured all of it. I knew exactly what was being asked every time."

Nikos M. 🇬🇷
nikos.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Thessaloniki

"Cypriot Greek sounds very different from standard Athenian Greek. My Athens interviewers were hard to follow on the lips. Captio AI handled both varieties and I followed the complete interview."

Maria K. 🇨🇾
maria.k***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Nicosia

"The phone screen was in fast Greek with elevated vocabulary. Captio AI captioned everything in real time. I passed and moved to the full panel interview."

Giorgos T. 🇬🇷
giorgos.t***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Athens

"Greek corporate vocabulary sounds completely different from everyday speech. Captio AI gave me every formal word in real time. I answered every question correctly and got through to the offer."

Eleni P. 🇬🇷
eleni.p***@gmail.com
Moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Athens

"The shipping company panel was in formal Greek with a lot of industry vocabulary. Captio AI captured all of it. I knew exactly what was being asked every time."

Nikos M. 🇬🇷
nikos.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Thessaloniki

"Cypriot Greek sounds very different from standard Athenian Greek. My Athens interviewers were hard to follow on the lips. Captio AI handled both varieties and I followed the complete interview."

Maria K. 🇨🇾
maria.k***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Nicosia

"The phone screen was in fast Greek with elevated vocabulary. Captio AI captioned everything in real time. I passed and moved to the full panel interview."

Giorgos T. 🇬🇷
giorgos.t***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Athens

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