Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Macedonian 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

Macedonian corporate interviews in Skopje typically use standard Macedonian based on western dialects. Captio AI captions the interviewer's speech in real time so you can focus on your answers.

💻Video interviews

Video interviews over Teams or Zoom are standard at Macedonian companies and multinationals operating in Skopje. Captio AI captions the call audio in real time over any compressed connection.

📞Phone screens and initial calls

Initial phone screens at Macedonian firms are conducted in standard Macedonian. Captio AI captions the recruiter's speech live without a video feed.

👥Panel interviews

Panel interviews in Skopje may include speakers from different regional backgrounds using western or eastern dialect features. Captio AI handles all varieties in the same room.

🌍International and foreign-language interviews

International companies in North Macedonia often conduct rounds in English. Captio AI covers Macedonian and English in the same interview without any mode change.

🎯Assessment centres

Group assessment exercises at Macedonian employers involve collaborative tasks in Macedonian. Captio AI helps you follow every speaker and every instruction across the group.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Macedonian
87.6%

word accuracy

independent benchmark, 2025

< 200ms
you speak
captions

real-time captions

first word appears as you speak

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Captio AI in everyday use
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.

Macedonian

Why Macedonian is hard to understand

Fixed antepenultimate stress

  • Stress always on the third-from-last syllable
  • Macedonian has a fixed antepenultimate stress rule — in words of three or more syllables, the accent always falls on the third syllable from the end. This is unusual among Slavic languages and produces a rhythm very different from what a deaf reader calibrated on Serbian or Bulgarian expects, disrupting the pattern-matching that supports lip-reading.

Western–Eastern dialect split

  • 29 dialects, two very different groups
  • Linguists distinguish 29 Macedonian dialects, separated into Western and Eastern groups that differ substantially in phonology, morphology, and vocabulary. An interviewer from Bitola and an interviewer from Štip use systems different enough to require separate calibration from a deaf reader.

Macedonian–Albanian switching

  • Two language streams in bilingual areas
  • In western North Macedonia, Albanian is widely spoken alongside Macedonian. In professional settings in Tetovo or Gostivar, interviewers may switch between Macedonian and Albanian within the same session — two completely unrelated phonological systems running in the same interview.

Macedonian–English switching

  • English in the technical round
  • Tech and business interviews in Skopje frequently switch to English for technical vocabulary, product names, and international business terms. Both language streams arrive simultaneously and must both be tracked.

Consonant cluster compression

  • Initial clusters that compress in fast speech
  • Macedonian words can open with complex consonant clusters that compress rapidly in natural interview speech. The quick succession of articulations produces visual shapes too brief and overlapping to distinguish individually through lip-reading.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and employment in North Macedonia

North Macedonia, as an EU candidate country, is working to align its disability policy framework with European standards, but progress on workplace accommodation for deaf and hard of hearing citizens has been uneven. The country's deaf community — represented by the Union of the Deaf of North Macedonia — has documented barriers to employment including the absence of interpreter provision in recruitment and limited captioning infrastructure outside Skopje. For deaf candidates in a job interview, the communication gap is both immediate and concrete.

The WHO Global Burden of Disease 2019 study estimated that hearing loss affects a proportional share of North Macedonia's population of approximately 2 million, with working-age adults disproportionately bearing the economic cost of unaddressed hearing loss. In the Western Balkans, where audiological services are concentrated in capital cities and hearing aid coverage in smaller towns and rural areas is low, many Macedonians with hearing loss reach working age without diagnosis or support.

Globally, the WHO estimates unaddressed hearing loss costs over USD 980 billion annually — a burden falling heavily on working-age adults in lower-middle-income and transitional economies. For deaf and hard of hearing job seekers in Skopje, Bitola, and Tetovo, Captio AI provides real-time captions the moment the interviewer speaks, in Macedonian or English, without an interpreter and without advance disclosure to the employer.

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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

"Macedonian stress falls on the third syllable from the end — it creates a rhythm I couldn't follow through lip-reading. Captio AI captures it from the audio. The whole interview clicked into place."

Nikola S. 🇲🇰
nikola.s***@gmail.com
Sensorineural hearing loss, Skopje

"The Bitola interviewer used regional dialect features different from standard Macedonian. Captio AI handled it accurately. I could answer every question without guessing what had been asked."

Elena B. 🇲🇰
elena.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, Bitola

"The technical round at the Skopje company switched into English. Captio AI followed both Macedonian and English in real time. First time I left a technical interview feeling confident I'd heard everything."

Stefan V. 🇲🇰
stefan.v***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Skopje

"Video interview with compressed audio — Macedonian stress patterns that are already difficult became almost impossible to track. Captio AI caught everything from the audio. A genuinely fair interview, finally."

Ana M. 🇲🇰
ana.mk***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Ohrid

"Macedonian stress falls on the third syllable from the end — it creates a rhythm I couldn't follow through lip-reading. Captio AI captures it from the audio. The whole interview clicked into place."

Nikola S. 🇲🇰
nikola.s***@gmail.com
Sensorineural hearing loss, Skopje

"The Bitola interviewer used regional dialect features different from standard Macedonian. Captio AI handled it accurately. I could answer every question without guessing what had been asked."

Elena B. 🇲🇰
elena.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, Bitola

"The technical round at the Skopje company switched into English. Captio AI followed both Macedonian and English in real time. First time I left a technical interview feeling confident I'd heard everything."

Stefan V. 🇲🇰
stefan.v***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Skopje

"Video interview with compressed audio — Macedonian stress patterns that are already difficult became almost impossible to track. Captio AI caught everything from the audio. A genuinely fair interview, finally."

Ana M. 🇲🇰
ana.mk***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Ohrid

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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