Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Turkish 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

In an Istanbul, Ankara, or Izmir office — an interviewer speaking formal Turkish at professional pace. Captio AI captions every question in real time so you read the full sentence before responding.

💻Video interviews

Video interviews on Zoom or Microsoft Teams — standard for remote first rounds at Turkish companies. Put the call on speaker and follow every question in real time.

📞Phone screens and initial calls

The initial HR screening call in Turkish — fast, formal, often over a mobile line. Captio AI captions the recruiter's voice in real time so the phone format does not become the barrier.

👥Panel interviews

Panel interviews at large Turkish companies, government agencies, or multinationals operating in Turkey. Captio AI follows each panelist in real time even when questions come from different directions.

🌍International and foreign-language interviews

For roles at international firms in Turkey where the interview shifts between Turkish and English. Live Translator handles both languages in the same session without manual switching.

🎯Assessment centres

Competency-based assessment exercises — used at major Turkish banks and corporate employers. Captio AI covers facilitator instructions and candidate interaction throughout.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Turkish
91.1%

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.

Turkish

Why Turkish is hard to understand

Consonant mutation

  • Final consonants change when suffixes are added — same word, different lip shape
  • Turkish consonant mutation (softening) changes final stops k/t/ç/p to g/d/c/b when a vowel-initial suffix follows. The same root word appears with a different final consonant depending on grammatical context. In a formal interview question, the inflected form of a noun or verb may look different on the lips from the bare root form a deaf candidate recognises.

Agglutinative suffix stacking

  • Turkish interview questions can be a single long word ending at the verb
  • Turkish stacks suffixes onto verb and noun roots in sequence — tense, aspect, negation, person, and number all added one after another. A single Turkish verb can be a 10-syllable word delivering the entire predicate. In a fast interview question, the verb arrives at the end as a long agglutinated unit requiring the lip-reader to track each suffix in sequence.

Vowel harmony opacity

  • Suffix vowels are predictable by rule but compress visually in fast speech
  • Turkish vowel harmony means every suffix vowel matches the backness and roundness of the root vowel. This is grammatically elegant but creates long sequences of similar-quality vowels across an agglutinated word. In fast interview speech, these harmonically related vowel sequences compress visually into a stream of similar mouth positions.

Formal register

  • Turkish corporate interviews use formal vocabulary distinct from everyday speech
  • Turkish corporate interviews — especially at financial institutions, government agencies, and large manufacturers — use a formal register with Ottoman-derived and French loanword vocabulary uncommon in everyday Türkçe. A deaf candidate whose visual vocabulary comes from daily informal Turkish faces unfamiliar word roots in a formal hiring context.

Fast Istanbul speech

  • Istanbul corporate speech moves quickly with reduced vowels
  • Standard Istanbul Turkish — the prestige variety used in formal interviews — is fast in natural speech with reduced unstressed vowels and some consonant assimilation across word boundaries. In a formal interview at a major Istanbul company, the pace remains high even in structured professional contexts.

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The Challenge

250,000 Turkish Sign Language users — and an interview format that requires none of the same skills

Turkish Sign Language (TİD) has approximately 250,000 signers in Turkey. A much larger population — estimated in the hundreds of thousands — is hard of hearing or has significant hearing loss but does not use sign language. Turkey's disability legislation includes employment provisions requiring large employers to maintain a percentage of disabled workers, and Turkish employment policy is moving toward a 3.5% disability employment quota target by 2029. A 2022–2023 cochlear implant study published in PMC collected data from 142 participants with severe hearing loss across all regions of Turkey, documenting ongoing employment challenges even for those who had received cochlear implant treatment.

In the Turkish labour market, the interview process at major Istanbul employers — in banking, manufacturing, retail, and the public sector — is structured, fast, and conducted entirely in spoken Turkish. No legal requirement mandates captioning or TİD interpretation at the interview stage. Requesting an interpreter in advance is uncommon and can raise questions about the candidate's communication ability before qualifications are evaluated. Not requesting it means managing a formal Turkish interview without any visual support.

The structure of Turkish amplifies the barrier. Turkish puts the verb at the end of the sentence and stacks suffixes in agglutinative chains that produce long words carrying dense grammatical information. A formal interview question may arrive as a multi-clause sentence ending in a complex verb form. By the time the verb appears, earlier clauses may have been partially lost. Captio AI requires no employer arrangement: open the app at the start of the interview, place the phone on the desk, and every Turkish sentence appears in real time — suffix chains included.

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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

"Turkish bank interviews are formal, fast, and full of long agglutinated sentences. I put Captio AI on the desk and read every question as it arrived. I gave complete answers for the first time in any interview."

Elif Y. 🇹🇷
elif.y***@gmail.com
Moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Istanbul

"Government sector interviews in Ankara use very formal Turkish with Ottoman-derived vocabulary I rarely encounter. Captio AI gave me every word including the formal terms. I answered every question correctly."

Mehmet A. 🇹🇷
mehmet.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Ankara

"The multinational interview switched between Turkish and English mid-question. With Captio AI I had both languages in front of me and could follow the whole session without any gaps."

Zeynep K. 🇹🇷
zeynep.k***@gmail.com
Deaf since childhood, Izmir

"The phone screen was impossible before. Fast formal Turkish over a mobile line. Captio AI captioned everything in real time. I passed the screen and went through to the full panel."

Ali D. 🇹🇷
ali.d***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Istanbul

"Turkish bank interviews are formal, fast, and full of long agglutinated sentences. I put Captio AI on the desk and read every question as it arrived. I gave complete answers for the first time in any interview."

Elif Y. 🇹🇷
elif.y***@gmail.com
Moderate sensorineural hearing loss, Istanbul

"Government sector interviews in Ankara use very formal Turkish with Ottoman-derived vocabulary I rarely encounter. Captio AI gave me every word including the formal terms. I answered every question correctly."

Mehmet A. 🇹🇷
mehmet.a***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Ankara

"The multinational interview switched between Turkish and English mid-question. With Captio AI I had both languages in front of me and could follow the whole session without any gaps."

Zeynep K. 🇹🇷
zeynep.k***@gmail.com
Deaf since childhood, Izmir

"The phone screen was impossible before. Fast formal Turkish over a mobile line. Captio AI captioned everything in real time. I passed the screen and went through to the full panel."

Ali D. 🇹🇷
ali.d***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Istanbul

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

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