Slovak live captions and productivity tool for job interviews

Eurostat data found that in Slovakia, the employment gap between people with disabilities who have multiple health conditions and the general workforce was among the largest in Europe — approximately 40 percentage points in 2019, though the gap had narrowed compared to earlier in the decade. For deaf and hard of hearing Slovaks, this gap reflects both communication barriers in recruitment and limited workplace accommodation in a market that has historically underresourced disability support.

Slovakia's disability policy framework has developed through EU accession and subsequent alignment with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Slovak Sign Language received formal recognition in 2010, an important milestone — but recognition has not automatically translated into consistent captioning provision in job interviews or recruitment processes. Employer obligations around communication accommodation remain inconsistently applied across sectors.

The WHO World Report on Hearing (2021) estimated that globally, unaddressed hearing loss carries an annual economic cost of over USD 980 billion, with working-age adults bearing a disproportionate share. In Slovakia, where tech and services sectors in Bratislava and Košice are growing, deaf candidates rarely have access to real-time captioning during recruitment. Captio AI gives deaf and hard of hearing Slovaks a way to follow every interview question word for word — without an interpreter and without advance disclosure.