Punjabi live captions and productivity tool for job interviews
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Punjabi job interviews
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Punjabi 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.
In a Chandigarh, Amritsar, or Ludhiana office — an interviewer speaking Punjabi at professional pace. Captio AI captions every question in real time so you read the full sentence before responding.
Video interviews on Zoom or Google Meet in Punjabi corporate environments. Put the call on speaker and follow every question in real time whether in Punjabi, Hindi, or English.
Initial HR screening calls in Punjabi — fast, formal, often with Hindi or English switching. Captio AI captions the recruiter's voice in real time so compressed audio does not become the barrier.
Panel interviews at Punjab-based employers or major Chandigarh and Amritsar companies. Captio AI follows each panelist in real time even when they shift between Punjabi, Hindi, and English.
For roles at multinationals in Punjab or Lahore where interviews shift between Punjabi and English. Live Translator handles both in the same session without manual switching.
Group discussions and competency assessments — common in Indian and Pakistani banking and corporate recruitment in Punjab. Captio AI covers facilitator instructions and participant contributions.
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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 Punjabi is hard to understand
Three lexical tones
- Punjabi uses pitch to change meaning — but pitch is invisible on the lips
- Punjabi is one of the few South Asian languages with lexical tone — three tones (level, high-falling, low-rising) distinguish word meanings. Unlike Mandarin or Vietnamese tones, Punjabi tones are produced primarily by voice quality (creaky vs modal vs breathy voice) rather than just pitch contour. In a formal Punjabi job interview, the same syllable lip shape can mean three different things depending on voice quality, and a deaf candidate watching the interviewer's lips has no visual way to distinguish them.
Retroflex-dental collision
- ਟ/ਠ/ਡ/ਢ and ਤ/ਥ/ਦ/ਧ look identical on the lips
- Like other South Asian languages, Punjabi contrasts retroflex (ਟ, ਠ, ਡ, ਢ — tongue curled to hard palate) with dental (ਤ, ਥ, ਦ, ਧ — tongue at teeth) consonants. The pairs look visually indistinguishable in normal interview speech. In a Chandigarh or Lahore office, an interviewer's retroflex consonants produce the same lip shapes as their dental counterparts.
Aspiration pairs
- Aspirated and unaspirated stops are acoustic, not visible
- Punjabi contrasts aspirated and unaspirated stops: ਪ/ਫ, ਟ/ਠ, ਕ/ਖ, ਬ/ਭ. The aspiration is a burst of breath — acoustic, produced after the consonant, invisible on the lips. A deaf candidate watching a Punjabi interviewer cannot distinguish these pairs, which carry meaning in interview vocabulary.
Punjabi-Hindi-English switching
- Indian Punjab interviews mix three languages mid-sentence
- In Chandigarh, Ludhiana, and Amritsar offices, Punjabi, Hindi, and English mix in professional conversation — and in Pakistani Punjab, Punjabi, Urdu, and English mix similarly. An interviewer may ask a question in Punjabi, use a Hindi term, and close with an English phrase. A deaf candidate tracking any one language is watching the others invisibly.
Dialect variation
- Majhi, Doabi, and Malwai Punjabi have different phonological profiles
- Standard Punjabi (Majhi, based on the Lahore-Amritsar region) differs from Doabi (Jalandhar area) and Malwai (Ludhiana-Patiala area) in vowel quality and some consonant patterns. A deaf candidate trained on one variety faces different lip shapes from an interviewer from another region of Punjab.
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Download on theApp Store55% of Pakistan's disabled population is in Punjab — and most interviews are inaccessible
Pakistan's data shows that 55.7% of the country's disabled population is concentrated in Punjab — more than any other province. The Punjab provincial government has raised the disability employment quota to 3%, above the national 2% floor, but implementation in practice remains limited. Pakistan's overall hearing disability prevalence is 4.8% of the total population, and in Punjab — the country's most populous province with over 120 million residents — this translates to millions of people affected. Special education schools for deaf children exist across Punjab but face resource constraints, and graduates face a hiring market that rarely provides accessible interview formats.
In Indian Punjab, hearing impairment prevalence is recorded at 1.7% — lower than the national average — but the absolute numbers remain significant in a state of 30 million people. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPWD) Act 2016 mandates reasonable accommodations and a 4% employment quota in government jobs. Implementation in Chandigarh's public and private sectors is inconsistent, and interview-stage captioning is not a standard offering at any major Punjab employer.
In both Indian and Pakistani Punjab, the job interview is a fast verbal process conducted in a mix of Punjabi, Hindi or Urdu, and English — a trilingual environment that compounds the phonological challenge of a language that uses pitch contours to distinguish word meanings. A deaf candidate attends a Punjab job interview in a system that provides no structural support for the interview stage itself. Captio AI requires no employer arrangement: open the app, place the phone on the desk, and every Punjabi sentence is available in real time — tone markers captured in audio, not lost on the lips.
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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.
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People love Captio AI
"Punjabi tones in an interview — I could never tell them apart from lip shapes. Captio AI gave me every word from the audio. I answered every question correctly and made it through all three rounds."
"The panel switched between Punjabi, Hindi, and English in the same sentence. I had Captio AI on the table. All three languages appeared in real time. I followed the whole interview without losing a word."
"The interviewer was from Malwai and I'm more familiar with Majhi Punjabi. The phonology was slightly different. Captio AI handled it. I gave complete answers to every question."
"Lahore interviews mix Punjabi, Urdu, and English constantly. Captio AI followed all three. For the first time I felt like I was actually in the interview rather than just surviving it."
"Punjabi tones in an interview — I could never tell them apart from lip shapes. Captio AI gave me every word from the audio. I answered every question correctly and made it through all three rounds."
"The panel switched between Punjabi, Hindi, and English in the same sentence. I had Captio AI on the table. All three languages appeared in real time. I followed the whole interview without losing a word."
"The interviewer was from Malwai and I'm more familiar with Majhi Punjabi. The phonology was slightly different. Captio AI handled it. I gave complete answers to every question."
"Lahore interviews mix Punjabi, Urdu, and English constantly. Captio AI followed all three. For the first time I felt like I was actually in the interview rather than just surviving it."
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