Czech live captions and productivity tool for meetings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Czech meetings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Czech 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 stand-upy and týmové porady in Czech offices where updates come quickly in Czech. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every item.
Teams or Zoom calls with colleagues across the Czech Republic or internationally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.
Hodnotící pohovory and one-on-one sessions with a nadřízený. Important conversations in Czech corporate culture where precise wording matters. Captio AI transcribes everything.
Celofiremní schůze where the vedení addresses all staff. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.
Meetings that mix Czech and English — standard in Prague's international corporate sector. Live Translator follows any switch in real time.
Přestávka na kávu conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups. The informal moments in Czech 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 Czech is hard to understand
Consonant clusters
- Czech consonant clusters without vowels compress at meeting pace into a single indistinguishable blur on the lips
- Czech allows syllabic consonants without a vowel nucleus, and business vocabulary contains clusters like /str/, /prz/, /skr/ where multiple consonants compress into a short frame on the lips. A hard of hearing person reading the lips of a Czech colleague in a meeting sees these clusters as a rapid series of indistinguishable front-of-mouth shapes — a density of information that visual speech perception cannot resolve.
ř — a unique phoneme
- Czech's /ř/ — a trilled fricative that exists in no other standard language — has no visual reference in any lip-reading vocabulary
- The Czech /ř/ ('řeka', 'řídit', 'přece') is a sound unique to Czech — a simultaneous alveolar trill and fricative articulated with the tongue blade near the alveolar ridge and the lips open. Visually it is indistinct from /r/ or /z/. A deaf or hard of hearing person who has developed their lip-reading vocabulary in any other language has no visual reference point for this phoneme — creating a systematic gap.
Bohemian vs Moravian prosody
- Moravian Czech has level intonation and fuller vowels — a prosodic profile different from Prague standard that creates a recognition gap in cross-regional meetings
- Bohemian Czech tends to centralise short vowels and has characteristic falling intonation. Moravian Czech retains fuller vowel quality and has a level, slightly rising intonation — a distinct prosodic signature that changes vowel visibility and sentence rhythm on the lips. In a meeting connecting Prague and Brno colleagues, a deaf lip-reader familiar with one variety encounters what looks like a different language from the other.
Vowel length contrast
- Czech phonemic vowel length distinguishes meaning, but at meeting pace the duration difference compresses and disappears from the visual stream
- Czech distinguishes short and long vowels phonemically: 'mas' vs 'máš', 'pas' vs 'pás'. At slow, careful speech the long vowels are identifiable by slightly longer lip duration. At meeting pace, vowel length compression eliminates this cue — meaning a deaf or hard of hearing person misreads systematic vocabulary distinctions in every sentence.
Czech–English code-switching
- Prague tech and finance meetings embed English vocabulary into Czech sentences, creating mid-sentence shifts in phonological system
- Czech corporate culture increasingly incorporates English management, IT, and financial vocabulary. In a Prague standup, a sentence may start in Czech phonology — a cluster-heavy system — and end with English loanwords delivered with English vowels and consonants. A deaf person lip-reading Czech encounters these English segments as phonologically mismatched with the Czech context they were tracking.
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Up to 300,000 people in the Czech Republic live with hearing impairment, according to the Czech Republic's member profile at the European Union of the Deaf. Among these, approximately 10,000 are Deaf sign language users — supported by only 70 working sign language interpreters in the country. This interpreter-to-deaf-population ratio is one of the lowest in the European Union, meaning that most deaf professionals in the Czech Republic attend formal meetings, negotiations, and training sessions without real-time sign language support. The Czech Republic ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2009, establishing a legal framework for workplace accommodation that has not yet been matched by interpreter provision.
Research on the genetic aetiology of non-syndromic hearing loss in the Moravian-Silesian region (PMC6037260) highlights the geographic distribution of hearing loss across Czech regions — including Ostrava, Brno, and Olomouc — rather than only in Prague. Yet interpreter services and assistive technology support are concentrated in the capital, creating a geographic accessibility gap for deaf professionals in Moravia and Silesia who navigate meeting-heavy roles without the same level of support infrastructure available in Prague.
The Czech technology and manufacturing sectors — among the largest employers in the country — operate in heavily verbal meeting cultures that increasingly integrate English management vocabulary into Czech business speech. For a deaf professional in a Prague tech company or a Brno engineering firm, the standard business meeting combines the acoustic complexity of Czech phonology (cluster-heavy consonant inventory, unique /ř/, vowel length contrasts) with English-code-switching that no standard Czech captioning tool was designed to handle simultaneously.
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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
"Prague tech standups are fast and the English loanwords shift the lip shapes mid-sentence. Captio AI follows both Czech and English seamlessly. I catch every blocker in the standup without needing someone to relay it to me."
"Brno Moravian Czech sounds completely different from Prague standard and no tool handled it before. Captio AI gives me the full transcript in real time. Team meetings at the Brno plant are accessible for the first time in my career."
"Czech finance meetings already have heavy consonant clusters — add English terms on top and lip-reading becomes impossible. Captio AI handles both. I follow every line of the risk briefing accurately."
"Olomouc has a Central Moravian accent with level intonation that sounds different from Prague. Captio AI handles the regional variety accurately. The weekly clinical update is accessible and I know exactly what is being communicated."
"Prague tech standups are fast and the English loanwords shift the lip shapes mid-sentence. Captio AI follows both Czech and English seamlessly. I catch every blocker in the standup without needing someone to relay it to me."
"Brno Moravian Czech sounds completely different from Prague standard and no tool handled it before. Captio AI gives me the full transcript in real time. Team meetings at the Brno plant are accessible for the first time in my career."
"Czech finance meetings already have heavy consonant clusters — add English terms on top and lip-reading becomes impossible. Captio AI handles both. I follow every line of the risk briefing accurately."
"Olomouc has a Central Moravian accent with level intonation that sounds different from Prague. Captio AI handles the regional variety accurately. The weekly clinical update is accessible and I know exactly what is being communicated."
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