Spanish live captions and productivity tool for job interviews

In Spain, 1,064,000 people are deaf or have a hearing disability — approximately 2.3% of the population. Spain's Law 27/2007 recognized Spanish Sign Language (LSE) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC) as official languages, a landmark step. Yet recognition in law has not translated into accessibility in the job market. Sixty percent of hearing-impaired people in Spain report perceiving a loss of competitiveness in the labour market because of their hearing condition. Eighty-six percent say hearing loss has affected communication with colleagues or potential employers.

The interview process is the first and most critical access point — and the one with the least structural support. Spanish employment law does not mandate captioning or sign language interpretation at the interview stage. A deaf candidate attending a Spanish job interview faces unstructured conversation in a variety of Spanish that may differ significantly from what they are most comfortable with — Castilian, Andalusian, Latin American — with no mechanism requiring the employer to accommodate them. Requesting accommodation can introduce bias before the candidate's qualifications are evaluated.

Across Latin America, the picture is similarly uneven. Countries including Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Chile have disability employment legislation on paper, but enforcement is inconsistent and interview accommodations for deaf and hard of hearing candidates are rare in practice. The WHO Global Hearing Report estimates that hearing loss affects approximately 7% of Latin America's population — tens of millions of people navigating hiring systems built entirely around spoken communication. Captio AI lets a deaf or hard of hearing candidate walk into a Spanish-language interview anywhere from Seville to São Paulo, place their phone on the desk, and read every question in real time — no employer arrangement, no disclosure required.