Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Slovenian 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

Slovenian corporate interviews in Ljubljana typically use standard Slovenian. Captio AI captions the interviewer's speech in real time so you can focus on your answers rather than trying to track regional dialect features.

💻Video interviews

Video interviews over Teams or Zoom are standard at Slovenian companies and multinationals with Ljubljana offices. Captio AI captions the call audio in real time over any compressed connection.

📞Phone screens and initial calls

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

👥Panel interviews

Panel interviews in Slovenia may include speakers from Maribor, Koper, or Celje using regional dialect features alongside Ljubljana standard. Captio AI handles all varieties in the same room.

🌍International and foreign-language interviews

Slovenian tech and business companies often conduct some rounds in English. Captio AI covers Slovenian and English in the same interview without any mode change.

🎯Assessment centres

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

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Slovenian
93.2%

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.

Slovenian

Why Slovenian is hard to understand

Extreme dialect diversity

  • 50 dialects — each one different
  • Slovenian has one of the most fragmented dialect landscapes of any language relative to its size, with over 40 to 50 recognised dialects across 7 major groups. An interviewer from Maribor, Koper, or Celje can sound so different from a Ljubljana speaker that a deaf reader calibrated on standard Slovenian is effectively facing a different system.

Phonemic tone (central dialects)

  • Tone that distinguishes meaning in some regions
  • A north-south band of central Slovenian dialects — Upper and Lower Carniolan groups — retains phonemic tone. The same word carries different meanings depending on its tonal contour, which is auditory only. A deaf reader encountering these dialects faces a completely invisible distinction.

Variable stress placement

  • Stress that shifts between dialects
  • The same word can be stressed differently across Slovenian dialects. A candidate who prepared on Ljubljana standard speech encounters a different rhythmic pattern in each regional variety — disrupting the pattern-matching that underpins lip-reading.

Slovenian–English switching

  • English in the technical and business round
  • Slovenian tech and business interviews in Ljubljana frequently switch to English for technical vocabulary, company terminology, and international business conversation. Both language streams must be tracked simultaneously in the same interview.

Consonant cluster complexity

  • Opening clusters that compress at pace
  • Slovenian words can open with dense consonant clusters. In fast professional speech these compress rapidly, producing brief overlapping articulations that generate few distinguishable visual shapes at the lips.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and employment in Slovenia

Slovenia recognised Slovenian Sign Language as an official language in 2002, one of the earlier formal recognitions in Central Europe. Despite this milestone, the practical implementation of communication accommodation in employment — particularly captioning in job interviews — has progressed slowly. The Zveza gluhih in naglušnih Slovenije (Slovenian Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing) has documented that access to workplace communication support remains inconsistent across employers, with many deaf candidates attending interviews without any captioning provision.

Eurostat disability employment data for Slovenia shows a persistent gap between employment rates for people with disabilities and the general workforce, consistent with the broader European pattern. The WHO World Report on Hearing (2021) noted that in high-income European countries, the employment gap for deaf and hard of hearing workers often reflects attitudinal and communication barriers in recruitment more than structural economic exclusion — a finding directly applicable to Slovenia's relatively strong economy and labour market.

Globally, the WHO estimates unaddressed hearing loss costs over USD 980 billion annually, concentrated among working-age adults where participation is lowest. For deaf and hard of hearing job seekers in Ljubljana, Maribor, and Koper, Captio AI provides real-time captions the moment the interviewer speaks — in Slovenian 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

"The Ljubljana interview was in standard Slovenian until one panelist switched to their regional dialect. Captio AI tracked both without any break. I could answer every question confidently."

Maja K. 🇸🇮
maja.k***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Ljubljana

"Maribor dialect is noticeably different from Ljubljana standard. Captio AI handled it accurately. First interview outside Ljubljana where I actually caught every word."

Andrej B. 🇸🇮
andrej.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, Maribor

"The technical round moved into English. Captio AI followed both Slovenian and English in real time. I went into the next round knowing I hadn't missed anything."

Tina P. 🇸🇮
tina.p***@gmail.com
Sensorineural hearing loss, Ljubljana

"Panel interview in Koper with three interviewers, each from a slightly different region. Captio AI kept up with all of them. Finally a panel interview that felt like a fair test of what I actually know."

Luka R. 🇸🇮
luka.r***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Koper

"The Ljubljana interview was in standard Slovenian until one panelist switched to their regional dialect. Captio AI tracked both without any break. I could answer every question confidently."

Maja K. 🇸🇮
maja.k***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Ljubljana

"Maribor dialect is noticeably different from Ljubljana standard. Captio AI handled it accurately. First interview outside Ljubljana where I actually caught every word."

Andrej B. 🇸🇮
andrej.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since birth, Maribor

"The technical round moved into English. Captio AI followed both Slovenian and English in real time. I went into the next round knowing I hadn't missed anything."

Tina P. 🇸🇮
tina.p***@gmail.com
Sensorineural hearing loss, Ljubljana

"Panel interview in Koper with three interviewers, each from a slightly different region. Captio AI kept up with all of them. Finally a panel interview that felt like a fair test of what I actually know."

Luka R. 🇸🇮
luka.r***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, Koper

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Hear every question in Slovenian.

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