Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Gujarati 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

Team meetings and stand-ups in Ahmedabad and Surat offices where updates come in Gujarati or English. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every point.

📹Video calls

Google Meet or Teams calls with colleagues across Gujarat or nationally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.

🎯One-on-ones and reviews

Appraisal sessions and one-on-one meetings with a reporting manager. High-stakes conversations in Gujarati business culture where every word matters. Captio AI transcribes everything.

🎤All-hands and town halls

Company-wide meetings where leadership addresses the full team. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.

🌍International and multilingual meetings

Meetings that mix Gujarati, Hindi, and English — common across Gujarat's trading and manufacturing sectors. Live Translator follows every switch.

Informal catch-ups

Chai break conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups after the meeting. The informal moments in Gujarati workplaces where relationships are built. Captio AI covers those too.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Gujarati
92.2%

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 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.

Gujarati

Why Gujarati is hard to understand

Breathy vowel phonation

  • Gujarati's breathy vowels are a purely acoustic phonemic contrast invisible on the lips
  • Gujarati has a unique four-way phonation contrast that extends to vowels as well as consonants: voiced, voiceless, aspirated, and breathy-voiced. Breathy (murmured) vowels are phonemically distinct from plain vowels. This contrast is carried entirely in voice quality — a purely acoustic signal with zero visual representation at the lips.

Four-way stop contrasts

  • Gujarati consonant contrasts that change meaning look identical in meeting speech
  • Gujarati's consonant inventory includes the full four-way voiced/voiceless × aspirated/unaspirated stop contrasts of South Asian languages. In fast meeting speech, pa/pha/ba/bha distinctions that change word meaning entirely produce near-identical lip shapes. A deaf participant has no visual signal to tell them apart.

Saurashtra and Kathiawad dialect variation

  • Southwest Gujarati dialects bring distinct phonological patterns to national meetings
  • Saurashtra and Kathiawadi dialects (southwest Gujarat) differ phonologically from standard Ahmedabad/Surat Gujarati in vowel quality and consonant patterns. In a meeting with colleagues from different parts of Gujarat or different diaspora communities, each speaker presents a different phonological baseline.

Diaspora Gujarati–English code-switching

  • UK, East African, and North American Gujarati meetings run heavy English code-switching
  • Gujarati diaspora communities in the UK, Canada, Kenya, and Uganda conduct business meetings with heavy English mixing alongside Gujarati. In Ahmedabad and Surat, English technical vocabulary appears throughout textile, chemical, and pharmaceutical sector meetings. For a deaf participant, the two-language register is the standard, not the exception.

Retroflex consonant reduction

  • Gujarati retroflex consonants reduce toward dental in fast meeting speech
  • Gujarati has retroflex consonants (/ʈ/, /ɖ/, /ɳ/) that reduce toward dental or alveolar positions in casual speech. In the fast working discussion of a meeting, the retroflex-dental distinction that carries lexical meaning collapses acoustically and disappears completely at the visual level.

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The Challenge

63 million deaf and hard of hearing Indians — and Gujarat's boardrooms are still inaccessible.

India has approximately 63 million people with disabling hearing loss. Gujarat, one of India's most economically significant states — home to large textile, chemical, pharmaceutical, and diamond industries as well as a growing tech sector — has a proportional share of this population. Across India, the 2011 census revealed that of 13.4 million working-age hearing-disabled people, 73.9% were marginal workers, with only 26.1% in stable formal employment. For Gujarat's business-oriented economy, which creates some of India's largest concentrations of corporate employment, this represents a structural exclusion from exactly the kind of meeting-heavy professional environments that define career advancement.

India's Persons with Disabilities Act requires 1% reservation for hearing-disabled people in government employment, but private sector compliance is minimal and interpreter provision for corporate meetings does not exist at a national level. India has over 100 regional sign languages with no single national standard — making professional interpreter access in Gujarat's corporate sector fragmented and practically unavailable for daily meetings. The Gujarati diaspora — one of the most economically active in the world — conducts business across the UK, Canada, Kenya, Uganda, and the US, often in environments where Gujarati-language corporate interpreter access is nonexistent.

Gujarat's industrial economy is one of the few Indian states where a significant proportion of the formal workforce engages with meeting-heavy professional environments — board meetings, client presentations, regional team calls — on a daily basis. Deaf and hard of hearing Gujarati professionals navigating these environments do so without any communication access infrastructure. Captio AI captions Gujarati in real time — including the unique breathy vowel phonology that is acoustically complex, the diaspora Gujarati-English code-switching of a Leicester or Nairobi business call, and the Saurashtra-accented speech of a regional colleague — so every meeting is accessible.

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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

"Ahmedabad pharma meetings mix Gujarati and English continuously. Captio AI handles both languages and the breathy vowel phonology that other tools miss. I follow every compliance discussion now without asking anyone to repeat."

Nilesh P. 🇮🇳
nilesh.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, pharmaceutical company, Ahmedabad

"Leicester Gujarati-English meetings have their own mix that is unlike anything spoken in Gujarat itself. Captio AI handles the UK diaspora code-switching accurately. Team calls are fully accessible to me now."

Kavita S. 🇬🇧
kavita.s***@gmail.com
Deaf since childhood, retail company, Leicester

"Surat business meetings use fast Saurashtra-influenced Gujarati that is very different from standard Gujarati. Captio AI handles the regional variety. The daily trading meeting is accessible for the first time."

Raj M. 🇮🇳
raj.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, diamond industry, Surat

"Nairobi Gujarati meetings mix Gujarati, English, and sometimes Swahili. Captio AI handles the Gujarati and English accurately. I can follow the full family business discussion without a family member interpreting for me."

Priti V. 🇰🇪
priti.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, family business, Nairobi

"Ahmedabad pharma meetings mix Gujarati and English continuously. Captio AI handles both languages and the breathy vowel phonology that other tools miss. I follow every compliance discussion now without asking anyone to repeat."

Nilesh P. 🇮🇳
nilesh.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, pharmaceutical company, Ahmedabad

"Leicester Gujarati-English meetings have their own mix that is unlike anything spoken in Gujarat itself. Captio AI handles the UK diaspora code-switching accurately. Team calls are fully accessible to me now."

Kavita S. 🇬🇧
kavita.s***@gmail.com
Deaf since childhood, retail company, Leicester

"Surat business meetings use fast Saurashtra-influenced Gujarati that is very different from standard Gujarati. Captio AI handles the regional variety. The daily trading meeting is accessible for the first time."

Raj M. 🇮🇳
raj.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, diamond industry, Surat

"Nairobi Gujarati meetings mix Gujarati, English, and sometimes Swahili. Captio AI handles the Gujarati and English accurately. I can follow the full family business discussion without a family member interpreting for me."

Priti V. 🇰🇪
priti.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, family business, Nairobi

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every word in Gujarati.

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