Albanian live captions and productivity tool for meetings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Albanian meetings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Albanian speakers.
Follow the meeting as it happens
- Captions appear word by word while speakers are still talking
- Works in conference rooms, boardrooms, and open offices
- Handles fast-paced discussion and multiple speakers
- No setup — place the phone on the table and start
International and multilingual meetings
- Each person speaks their own language
- You read in yours, in real time
- 60+ languages, no mode switching
- Handles mid-sentence language changes
Full transcript after the meeting
- Upload the recording and get a complete written transcript
- Organised by speaker — know exactly who said what
- Review decisions and action items at your own pace
- Searchable, copyable, shareable
Decisions and action items, extracted
- Key points and decisions pulled from any transcript
- Action items surfaced automatically
- Organised into sections — not one continuous block
- Works on any Captio AI meeting transcript
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Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
Daily takime ekipi and stand-ups in Albanian offices where updates come in Albanian. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every item.
Zoom or Teams calls with colleagues locally or internationally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.
Vlerësime të performancës and one-on-one sessions with a mbikëqyrës. Important conversations where every word matters. Captio AI transcribes everything.
Company-wide mbledhje të përgjithshme where management addresses all staff. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.
Meetings that mix Albanian and English — common in Tirana's growing business sector. Live Translator follows any switch in real time.
Coffee break conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups. The informal moments in Albanian offices where working relationships are built. Captio AI covers those too.
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Built for the speed of a real meeting
Captions while they are still speaking
Words appear on screen as each person talks — not after they finish. You read what someone is saying at the same moment everyone else hears it.
Works in any meeting format
Conference rooms, open-plan offices, video calls, all-hands. Place the phone on the table or hold it — Captio AI handles the rest.
Handles fast speech and crosstalk
Captio AI is designed for real meetings, not controlled dictation. It follows whoever is speaking loudest at any moment, keeping up with the natural pace of discussion.
No setup, no explaining
Open the app and place the phone. No pairing, no telling colleagues what you are doing, no requesting anything from the meeting organiser.
Review everything after
Record the meeting and upload it to Audio Transcription for a full written record. Use AI Summary to extract decisions and action items so nothing from the meeting gets lost.
60+ languages
For international teams, multilingual meetings, or colleagues who switch between languages mid-discussion. No setup required — Captio AI detects and captions in real time.
Why Albanian is hard to understand
Gheg nasal vowels
- Gheg Albanian has nasal vowels — unique among Balkan languages — that leave no visible trace on the lips
- Gheg Albanian (spoken in Northern Albania and Kosovo) has phonemic nasal vowels — vowels produced with the velum lowered to allow airflow through the nose. Like all nasalization features, this is produced without any visible change to lip shape or jaw position. In a meeting with a Gheg-speaking colleague, a deaf lip-reader sees identical lip shapes for the oral and nasal versions of the same vowel — missing the phonemic distinction entirely.
Gheg vs Tosk divergence
- Standard Albanian is based on Tosk (Southern), but most speakers use Gheg (Northern) — creating a systematic mismatch between written forms and spoken phonology in meetings
- Albania's standard language is based on Tosk Albanian, but the majority of Albania's population and nearly all Kosovo Albanians are Gheg speakers. In a meeting, written materials follow Tosk Standard, but spoken discussion often shifts toward Gheg phonology — different vowels, different consonant clusters, and different prosody. A deaf lip-reader who has learned Standard Tosk Albanian encounters a different set of mouth shapes from Gheg-speaking colleagues.
Gheg consonant clusters
- Northern Gheg Albanian retains /kj/ and /gj/ palatal clusters that Standard Albanian has merged — creating a phonological gap mid-meeting
- Central and Northwestern Gheg dialects (Shkodra, Kosovo highlands) preserve the palatal consonant clusters /kj/ and /gj/ that Standard Albanian merged into single phonemes. In a meeting where the speaker is from Shkodra or northern Kosovo, these preserved clusters present as doubled consonant frames on the lips — unexpected for a deaf person who has learned Standard Albanian and encounters these as two shapes where one was expected.
Albanian–English code-switching
- Tirana's corporate and tech sector increasingly mixes English vocabulary into Albanian sentences
- Albania's orientation toward EU membership and international corporate presence in Tirana has produced a professional register where English management and technical vocabulary appears regularly in business meetings. In a Tirana corporate meeting, a sentence may begin in Albanian and end with English terms — presenting a phonological shift that disrupts the lip-reading pattern a deaf person has been tracking.
Low ASqL visual support
- Low Albanian Sign Language proficiency across the deaf community means most deaf professionals navigate meetings without adequate visual language backup
- A 2015 survey of 434 deaf Albanians found that only 32 respondents stated good command of Albanian Sign Language, while 107 described knowing it only a little — reflecting decades of oralist education that suppressed sign language use. In a professional meeting, a deaf Albanian who has not developed strong sign language proficiency navigates a complex linguistic environment without either good visual access to speech or strong sign support.
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Albania's 2011 national census found 5,300 people with total hearing loss — approximately 2.4 per 1,000 inhabitants — with an estimated 39,000 deaf individuals representing 1.7% of the disabled population overall. A 2015 survey of 434 deaf Albanians conducted by the Albanian National Association of the Deaf found that access to information, education, and employment remained severely restricted: most deaf Albanians lacked access to sign language interpretation, and only a minority had completed secondary education — directly constraining professional employment prospects.
The Albanian deaf community faces a compounded accessibility challenge rooted in oralist educational policy under Communist-era Albania that actively suppressed sign language for decades. Albanian Sign Language (ASqL) developed rapidly after 1990 but interpreter provision and formal recognition have lagged. Research published by Mill Neck International documents that deaf Albanians face substantial barriers to employment, with many deaf adults reporting limited professional opportunities due to communication barriers in workplace settings — particularly meetings where verbal exchange is continuous.
Albania's growing IT, tourism, and services sectors — concentrated in Tirana — have created new professional employment opportunities, but corporate accessibility standards are nascent. The integration of English vocabulary into Albanian business meetings adds a second phonological layer. For a deaf professional navigating a Tirana corporate meeting without interpreter access, the combination of Gheg-Tosk phonological variation and English code-switching creates a compound barrier that no standard captioning tool addresses.
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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
"Tirana meetings switch between Albanian and English and the phonology changes completely. Captio AI captions both languages in real time. I follow every project decision without relying on a colleague to relay it."
"Standard Tosk Albanian in a meeting is hard enough to lip-read — the nasal vowels from Gheg-speaking colleagues are completely invisible. Captio AI handles both varieties. Team meetings are accessible for the first time in my career."
"Pristina Gheg Albanian sounds very different from Tirana standard — different vowels, different clusters. No tool handled the Kosovo variety before. Captio AI transcribes my colleagues accurately in real time."
"Consulting meetings in Tirana use formal Albanian with English terms throughout. Captio AI captures both languages accurately. I know the full content of every briefing without guessing."
"Tirana meetings switch between Albanian and English and the phonology changes completely. Captio AI captions both languages in real time. I follow every project decision without relying on a colleague to relay it."
"Standard Tosk Albanian in a meeting is hard enough to lip-read — the nasal vowels from Gheg-speaking colleagues are completely invisible. Captio AI handles both varieties. Team meetings are accessible for the first time in my career."
"Pristina Gheg Albanian sounds very different from Tirana standard — different vowels, different clusters. No tool handled the Kosovo variety before. Captio AI transcribes my colleagues accurately in real time."
"Consulting meetings in Tirana use formal Albanian with English terms throughout. Captio AI captures both languages accurately. I know the full content of every briefing without guessing."
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