Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Bosnian live captions and productivity tool for meetings

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.

🔄Stand-ups and team syncs

Daily tимски sastanci and stand-ups in Bosnian offices where updates come in Bosnian. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every item.

📹Video calls

Zoom or Teams calls with colleagues locally or internationally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.

🎯One-on-ones and reviews

Ocjene radnog učinka and one-on-one sessions with a nadređeni. Important conversations where every word matters. Captio AI transcribes everything.

🎤All-hands and town halls

Company-wide skupštine where management addresses all staff. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.

🌍International and multilingual meetings

Meetings that mix Bosnian and English — common in Sarajevo's growing business sector. Live Translator follows any switch in real time.

Informal catch-ups

Coffee break conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups. The informal moments in Bosnian offices where working relationships are built. Captio AI covers those too.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Bosnian
93.4%

word accuracy

independent benchmark, 2025

< 200ms
you speak
captions

real-time captions

first word appears as you speak

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Captio AI in everyday use
Why Captio AI

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.

Bosnian

Why Bosnian is hard to understand

Pitch accent

  • Four tones distinguish words that look identical on the lips
  • Bosnian uses the Neo-Shtokavian pitch accent system with four distinct accents — short rising, short falling, long rising, long falling. In a meeting, minimal pairs that differ only by tone and vowel length provide no visual cue at the lips, requiring acoustic capture to distinguish them reliably.

Jat reflex variation

  • Ijekavian and Ekavian realisations shift the same word's vowels
  • Standard Bosnian uses Ijekavian pronunciation (historical *jat* > /je/ or /ije/), while Serbian speakers in the same meeting may use Ekavian (*jat* > /e/). A word like 'mlijeko' becomes 'mleko' — the same meaning, a different sound shape, requiring constant recalibration during mixed meetings.

Turkish loanwords

  • Ottoman-era vocabulary appears in informal professional speech
  • Bosnian retains more Turkish and Arabic loanwords in everyday and professional speech than Croatian or Serbian. These words — common in Sarajevo offices — have phonological shapes unfamiliar to tools trained primarily on Serbian or Croatian data, and they appear without warning in formal meeting discussion.

Regional register

  • Sarajevo urban speech and regional varieties diverge at meeting speed
  • Sarajevo urban Bosnian has its own prosodic rhythm and loanword density. Regional Bosnian from Tuzla, Mostar, or Banja Luka introduces additional vowel and consonant variation. In a meeting with colleagues from different regions, the phonological target shifts with each speaker.

Fast formal speech

  • Corporate delivery compresses final syllables
  • Bosnian corporate speech — formal briefings, presentations, and fast-paced discussions — compresses final syllables and reduces unstressed vowels in ways that diverge from citation forms. A deaf attendee calibrated to written Bosnian finds meeting speech acoustically and visually different.

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The Challenge

Hearing loss and workplace exclusion in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Persons with disabilities represent 8.2% of the population in Bosnia and Herzegovina and are consistently identified as the most vulnerable, excluded, and marginalised group in the country. Research on deaf and hard-of-hearing adults in Bosnia documents structural exclusion from the labour market: approximately 80% of adult deaf persons who completed education and professional rehabilitation did not undergo the work-ability evaluation procedures required for formal employment, according to a study on professional rehabilitation of the deaf in Bosnia published by the Faculty of Defectology. This administrative gap means that most deaf working-age adults in Bosnia are formally outside the recognised labour force.

Discrimination against persons with disabilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina remains widespread. A 2017 report in the Sarajevo Times noted that awareness of sign language is very low and that information is rarely adapted for deaf individuals in professional or institutional settings. Stereotyping and social stigmatisation by employers results in active exclusion from the labour market — a pattern that disability rights organisations including the 'EHO' Association in Canton Sarajevo and FEPEDA have documented across multiple years.

Bosnia's complex administrative division between entities and cantons means that disability support services, sign language interpreter availability, and accessibility policy vary by jurisdiction within the same country. A deaf employee in Sarajevo and one in Banja Luka face different levels of institutional support — but the same phonologically complex Neo-Shtokavian meeting speech, where four-accent pitch distinctions and cross-dialect vocabulary variation make lip-reading and partial hearing both unreliable without real-time captions. Captio AI gives a deaf professional in a Sarajevo NGO, a Mostar company, or a Banja Luka government office the full text of every meeting as it is spoken.

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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

"Our meetings switch between Bosnian and English constantly. Captio AI follows both without losing the thread. I stopped missing the decisions made in fast Sarajevo speech at the end of every call."

Amra H. 🇧🇦
amra.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, NGO, Sarajevo

"Bosnian pitch accents are completely invisible when lip-reading. Captio AI captures the full acoustic signal and I follow our sprint planning without relying on a colleague to retype the discussion."

Edin M. 🇧🇦
edin.m***@gmail.com
Deaf since childhood, IT company, Sarajevo

"My colleagues sometimes shift between Ijekavian and Ekavian in the same meeting. Captio AI handles both variants without dropping words, and I follow every policy briefing accurately."

Lejla K. 🇧🇦
lejla.k***@gmail.com
Moderate hearing loss, public sector, Banja Luka

"Mostar speech has its own rhythm and vocabulary. Captio AI handles the regional variety and I follow the full quarterly review without asking anyone to repeat themselves."

Tarik B. 🇧🇦
tarik.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, finance company, Mostar

"Our meetings switch between Bosnian and English constantly. Captio AI follows both without losing the thread. I stopped missing the decisions made in fast Sarajevo speech at the end of every call."

Amra H. 🇧🇦
amra.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, NGO, Sarajevo

"Bosnian pitch accents are completely invisible when lip-reading. Captio AI captures the full acoustic signal and I follow our sprint planning without relying on a colleague to retype the discussion."

Edin M. 🇧🇦
edin.m***@gmail.com
Deaf since childhood, IT company, Sarajevo

"My colleagues sometimes shift between Ijekavian and Ekavian in the same meeting. Captio AI handles both variants without dropping words, and I follow every policy briefing accurately."

Lejla K. 🇧🇦
lejla.k***@gmail.com
Moderate hearing loss, public sector, Banja Luka

"Mostar speech has its own rhythm and vocabulary. Captio AI handles the regional variety and I follow the full quarterly review without asking anyone to repeat themselves."

Tarik B. 🇧🇦
tarik.b***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, finance company, Mostar

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every word in Bosnian.

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