Bulgarian live captions and productivity tool for meetings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Bulgarian meetings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Bulgarian 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 екипни срещи and stand-ups in Bulgarian offices where updates come in Bulgarian or English. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every item.
Teams or Zoom calls with colleagues locally or internationally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.
Оценки на представянето and one-on-one sessions with a ръководител. Important conversations where every word matters. Captio AI transcribes everything.
Company-wide общи събрания where management addresses all staff. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.
Meetings that mix Bulgarian and English — common in Sofia's tech and outsourcing sector. Live Translator follows any switch in real time.
Coffee break conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups. The informal moments in Bulgarian 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 Bulgarian is hard to understand
Palatalization pairs
- Bulgarian's 22 consonants include systematic hard/soft palatalization pairs that produce near-identical lip shapes but different sounds
- Bulgarian's consonant system uses palatalization — the distinction between a hard consonant and its soft palatalised counterpart — as a phonemic contrast. These pairs are articulated with subtle tongue-body differences that produce no visible lip change. In a meeting, a deaf or hard of hearing person lip-reading Bulgarian cannot distinguish hard from soft consonants, creating systematic ambiguity across every word that relies on this distinction.
Eastern vs Western dialect
- Eastern Bulgarian preserves vowels that Western Bulgarian (including Sofia) compresses — creating a visual mismatch in cross-regional meetings
- Bulgaria's dialectal divide runs along an East-West axis: Eastern dialects preserve a stressed vowel inventory close to written standard, while Western dialects — including Sofia-influenced speech — compress and shift these vowels. In a meeting connecting colleagues from Varna, Plovdiv, and Sofia, a deaf lip-reader encounters systematically different vowel shapes for the same words depending on the speaker's regional origin.
Syllabic liquids
- Syllabic /r/ and /l/ function as vowel nuclei in Bulgarian — producing near-empty visual frames on the lips for an entire syllable
- Syllabic liquids /r/ and /l/ function as syllable nuclei in Bulgarian — words can have these consonants carrying the vowel role. Their articulation produces a brief mid-central position indistinguishable from other neutralized vowels at meeting pace. A hard of hearing person lip-reading a word with a syllabic liquid sees a near-empty visual frame where a meaningful segment should be.
Unstressed vowel reduction
- Unstressed vowels reduce heavily in Bulgarian at meeting pace, removing grammatical suffixes from the visual channel
- In natural spoken Bulgarian, unstressed vowels — particularly /a/ and /e/ — reduce toward a central schwa. In a meeting, the grammatical suffixes encoding plural, definiteness, and verb person are unstressed and reduce to near-invisibility. A deaf or hard of hearing person reading the lips of a Bulgarian speaker in a fast meeting loses the grammatical information carried by these reduced endings.
Bulgarian–English code-switching
- Sofia's technology and business sector embeds English terms into Bulgarian sentences, creating mid-sentence phonological shifts
- Bulgaria's growing technology sector produces a corporate register where English management, IT, and financial vocabulary is integrated directly into Bulgarian sentences. In a Sofia office meeting, a sentence may begin in Bulgarian and end with English terms delivered with English phonology — a shift that disrupts the lip-reading pattern a deaf person has been tracking.
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There are approximately 12,000 deaf sign language users in Bulgaria, supported by only 46 working sign language interpreters — one of the lowest interpreter-to-deaf-population ratios in the European Union, according to the EUD member country profile. Bulgarian Sign Language (BgSL) received formal legal recognition on 21 January 2021 under the Bulgarian Sign Language Act, marking a significant milestone for the deaf community. However, the gap between legal recognition and practical workplace accessibility is substantial: with 46 interpreters for 12,000 users, formal meeting interpretation is structurally inaccessible for most deaf professionals.
Bulgaria ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2012, establishing a framework for workplace accommodation. Yet research on the Bulgarian deaf community documents persistent challenges: societal attitudes continue to frame deafness as a condition requiring correction rather than a linguistic minority identity, and deaf children historically received oralist education that suppressed sign language use. Adults who received this oralist education may have developed neither strong sign language nor strong speech perception skills — placing them in professional settings where neither channel provides complete access.
Bulgaria's growing technology, business process outsourcing, and shared services sectors — concentrated in Sofia — operate in meeting-heavy professional cultures that have not yet integrated accessibility standards for deaf employees. The Bulgarian-English code-switching common in Sofia tech meetings adds a second phonological layer that compounds the accessibility challenge. For a deaf professional navigating a Sofia boardroom without interpreter access, every meeting represents a structural exclusion from the decisions made in that room.
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Captio AI processes your audio in real time and discards it immediately. Nothing is recorded. Nothing is kept.
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Your conversations are not something Captio AI sells, shares, or monetizes — to anyone, for any reason.
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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
"Sofia tech standups mix Bulgarian and English every few sentences. Captio AI captions both languages in real time. I catch every sprint decision without needing to rely on a colleague to relay what was said."
"Fast Bulgarian in a meeting is impossible to lip-read — the palatalized consonants all look the same and the vowels reduce. Captio AI gives me the full text in real time. Team meetings are accessible for the first time in my career."
"Plovdiv Eastern Bulgarian sounds different from Sofia standard and no previous tool handled it. Captio AI handles the regional accent accurately. The weekly production briefing is accessible and I follow every instruction."
"Finance meetings in Sofia use formal Bulgarian mixed with English terms. The soft consonant pairs are invisible on the lips and I was missing half of every sentence. Captio AI captures the full meeting accurately."
"Sofia tech standups mix Bulgarian and English every few sentences. Captio AI captions both languages in real time. I catch every sprint decision without needing to rely on a colleague to relay what was said."
"Fast Bulgarian in a meeting is impossible to lip-read — the palatalized consonants all look the same and the vowels reduce. Captio AI gives me the full text in real time. Team meetings are accessible for the first time in my career."
"Plovdiv Eastern Bulgarian sounds different from Sofia standard and no previous tool handled it. Captio AI handles the regional accent accurately. The weekly production briefing is accessible and I follow every instruction."
"Finance meetings in Sofia use formal Bulgarian mixed with English terms. The soft consonant pairs are invisible on the lips and I was missing half of every sentence. Captio AI captures the full meeting accurately."
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