Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Hungarian 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 Budapest or Debrecen office — an interviewer speaking formal Hungarian 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 Hungarian companies. Put the call on speaker and follow every question in real time.

📞Phone screens and initial calls

The initial HR screening call in Hungarian — fast, formal, with vowel-length contrasts and suffix chains. Captio AI captions in real time so compressed audio does not become the barrier.

👥Panel interviews

Panel interviews at Hungarian companies, public institutions, or multinationals. Captio AI follows each panelist in real time even as they shift between Hungarian and English.

🌍International and foreign-language interviews

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

🎯Assessment centres

Competency assessments and group exercises — common at major Hungarian banks, telecoms, and corporate employers. Captio AI covers all facilitator speech and candidate interaction.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Hungarian
94.4%

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.

Hungarian

Why Hungarian is hard to understand

Long-short vowel contrasts

  • Hungarian has 14 vowels — 7 short and 7 long — and length changes meaning
  • Hungarian distinguishes 7 short vowels and their 7 long counterparts: a/á, e/é, i/í, o/ó, ö/ő, u/ú, ü/ű. Each pair differs only in duration. In fast Budapest interview speech, these length distinctions compress — 'kérek' (I request) and 'kerék' (wheel) may sound and look similar at speed. A lip-reader watching a Hungarian interviewer cannot reliably distinguish long from short vowels in fast formal speech.

Agglutinative suffix chains

  • Hungarian nouns carry case, possession, and number in stacked suffixes
  • Hungarian is agglutinative — nouns can take case, plural, possessive, and other suffixes stacked in sequence. A single noun in a formal interview question can be a multi-syllable word carrying grammatical information that arrives in rapid suffix sequence at the end. In fast interview speech, each suffix must be tracked individually with no natural pause between them.

Vowel harmony

  • Suffix vowels harmonize with the root — creating long consistent vowel sequences
  • Hungarian has front-back vowel harmony: suffixes take the front or back vowel quality of the root. This creates long suffix chains where all vowels are harmonically consistent with the root — producing predictable but rapidly compressed vowel sequences in fast interview speech.

Formal interview register

  • Hungarian corporate interviews use formal vocabulary distinct from everyday speech
  • Hungarian formal interview register uses Latin-derived and literary vocabulary — kompetencia, tapasztalat, motiváció — that appears with different frequency and some different forms from everyday conversational Hungarian. A deaf candidate whose visual vocabulary comes from informal daily speech may encounter formal interview terms that are less familiar.

Hungary's large employment gap

  • One of Europe's largest disability employment gaps creates acute pressure at the interview
  • Hungary had one of Europe's largest disability employment gaps at -37.4 percentage points (IZA Journal). This statistical reality means deaf and hard of hearing candidates in Hungary face not just the phonological challenge of the language but a structural labour market that disproportionately excludes them — making every successful interview outcome more valuable and every access barrier more consequential.

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The Challenge

Hungary's disability employment gap was Europe's largest — and the interview stage reflects that exclusion

An IZA Journal of Labor and Development study on disability and employment across Central and Eastern European countries found that Hungary had one of the largest differences between disabled and non-disabled employment rates in the EU, with a -37.4 percentage point gap — among the worst in Europe. The employment rate of persons with disabilities on the open labour market in Hungary is extremely low. The European Blind Union's Hungary page documents the persistent barriers to open-market employment for disabled Hungarians despite EU-level frameworks.

Hungary has disability employment legislation aligned with EU requirements, and employers are legally required to make reasonable accommodations. In practice, the interview process at major Budapest employers — in banking, technology, manufacturing, and public administration — is a spoken Hungarian format without standard captioning or sign language interpretation. No legal mechanism mandates these at the interview stage, and requesting them in advance can introduce uncertainty about a candidate's communication capability before their qualifications are evaluated.

Hungarian's phonological structure amplifies the access barrier. Fourteen vowels (7 short-long pairs) that change word meaning but compress in fast speech. Agglutinative suffix chains that carry grammatical information in rapid sequences. Vowel harmony that makes suffix chains consistent but long. Formal literary vocabulary in corporate interviews that differs from everyday colloquial speech. Captio AI requires no employer arrangement: open the app at the start of the állásinterjú, place the phone on the desk, and every Hungarian sentence — vowel lengths and suffix chains resolved from audio — 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

"Hungarian vowel length contrasts are gone from lip reading at interview pace. Captio AI gave me every word from the audio including the long vowels. I answered correctly throughout."

Katalin F. 🇭🇺
katalin.f***@gmail.com
Moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Budapest

"The banking panel used formal Hungarian with Latin-derived vocabulary and long suffix chains. Captio AI captured all of it. I gave complete answers to every question."

Péter B. 🇭🇺
peter.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Budapest

"The interview switched between Hungarian and English throughout. Captio AI followed both. I stopped worrying about which language I was in and focused on my answers."

Anna V. 🇭🇺
anna.v***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Debrecen

"Phone screens in Hungarian are dense — fast speech with suffix chains I couldn't parse. Captio AI captioned everything clearly. I passed the screen and made it to the final round."

Gábor S. 🇭🇺
gabor.s***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Budapest

"Hungarian vowel length contrasts are gone from lip reading at interview pace. Captio AI gave me every word from the audio including the long vowels. I answered correctly throughout."

Katalin F. 🇭🇺
katalin.f***@gmail.com
Moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Budapest

"The banking panel used formal Hungarian with Latin-derived vocabulary and long suffix chains. Captio AI captured all of it. I gave complete answers to every question."

Péter B. 🇭🇺
peter.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Budapest

"The interview switched between Hungarian and English throughout. Captio AI followed both. I stopped worrying about which language I was in and focused on my answers."

Anna V. 🇭🇺
anna.v***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Debrecen

"Phone screens in Hungarian are dense — fast speech with suffix chains I couldn't parse. Captio AI captioned everything clearly. I passed the screen and made it to the final round."

Gábor S. 🇭🇺
gabor.s***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Budapest

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FAQ

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