Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Hindi 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

Fast morning stand-ups in Indian offices where updates come in quick-fire Hindi mixed with English. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every item.

📹Video calls

Google Meet, Zoom, or Teams calls with colleagues across India or globally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.

🎯One-on-ones and reviews

Appraisal meetings and 1:1 check-ins with a reporting manager. High-stakes conversations in Indian corporate culture where nothing should be misunderstood. Captio AI transcribes everything.

🎤All-hands and town halls

All-hands meetings where senior leadership addresses the whole company, often in formal Hindi or English. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.

🌍International and multilingual meetings

Meetings that mix Hindi, English, and regional languages — common in pan-India teams. Live Translator follows any switch so you read in the language you follow best.

Informal catch-ups

Chai breaks, canteen conversations, quick desk-side questions. The informal moments in Indian workplaces where relationships and context are built. Captio AI covers those too.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Hindi
92.6%

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.

Hindi

Why Hindi is hard to understand

Retroflex consonants at speed

  • Business Hindi's core sounds are invisible on the lips — and meetings move fast
  • Retroflex consonants (ट, ड, ण) and aspirated stops (ख, घ, छ) are central to Hindi and articulated with almost no distinguishing lip movement. In a meeting where someone is presenting a project timeline or running through action items at speed, these ambiguities stack up faster than a lip-reader can recover. The stakes in a meeting are higher than at the market stall — a misread here means a missed task, not a missed errand.

Regional accent mix

  • Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru offices each speak a different Hindi
  • India's major business cities produce different-sounding Hindi. Delhi Hindi carries its own phonological features; Mumbai Hindi is influenced by Marathi; Bengaluru's Hindi-speaking workforce brings South Indian phonology. A team meeting in an Indian multinational or tech company can involve all three in the same call — and a deaf person calibrated to one will miss significant portions of the others.

Hinglish in boardrooms

  • Professional Hindi code-switches into English mid-sentence constantly
  • India's corporate culture runs on Hinglish — the seamless mixing of Hindi and English mid-sentence that defines professional communication in tech, finance, and media. 'हमें इस quarter का target achieve करना है' is standard meeting speech. A deaf person following one language loses the thread the moment the other appears — and in a Hindi business meeting, the switch happens every few sentences.

No ISL standard

  • Indian workplaces have no interpreter infrastructure — formal or informal
  • India has no nationally standardised sign language, which means there is no interpreter standard for corporate meetings, no captioning protocol, and no legal mechanism requiring accessibility in workplace communication. In a country where formal workplace accommodation is the exception rather than the norm, a deaf employee in a Hindi-speaking office navigates every meeting without support.

Fast formal Hindi

  • Business Hindi uses a sanskritised formal register that is faster and denser than daily speech
  • Formal Hindi in presentations and client meetings draws from Sanskrit vocabulary — प्रस्ताव, निर्णय, कार्यान्वयन — that differs significantly from everyday conversational Hindi. Combined with fast delivery and the absence of natural pauses, the formal register of a Hindi business presentation is denser and harder to parse visually than anything a deaf person encounters in daily life.

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The Challenge

63 million people. A 5% quota on paper. No interpreter in the room.

India is home to approximately 63 million deaf and hard of hearing people, the second-largest such population in the world. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (RPWD, 2016) mandates a 5% reservation for disabled employees in government jobs, and the Companies Act incentivises private sector inclusion. In practice, the employment pipeline for deaf people in India is broken before it reaches the workplace: less than 5% of deaf children attend school, according to the National Programme for Prevention and Control of Deafness, producing a workforce pipeline gap that no quota can address.

For those who do reach professional employment, the meeting room remains the most hostile daily environment. India has no nationally standardised sign language and no interpreter provision in corporate settings. A deaf employee at an Indian tech company, bank, or government office attends every meeting — every standup, every client call, every all-hands — without any formal support. The RPWD Act does not specify a captioning or interpreter standard for informal workplace communication, and no employer guideline or industry body has filled that gap.

Research on employment outcomes for persons with disabilities in India (PMC, 2016) found that disability is consistently associated with lower employment probability and lower earnings, with hearing disability specifically associated with exclusion from communication-dependent roles. India's corporate sector is growing rapidly, and Hindi-language professional communication is expanding into new industries and new cities. The deaf and hard of hearing workforce is being left behind as this growth accelerates. Captio AI captions Hindi speech in real time — across regional accents, Hinglish code-switching, and formal business registers — so the team meeting, the client pitch, and the job interview are 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

"Delhi standups are fast Hinglish — half the words are English, the rest is fast Delhi Hindi. I was nodding and guessing. Captio AI captures both languages. I follow every action item now."

Priya S. 🇮🇳
priya.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, tech company, Delhi

"Mumbai office meetings mix Marathi-accented Hindi with English slides. No interpreter, no captions. Captio AI changed that completely. Client calls are something I actually contribute to."

Arjun M. 🇮🇳
arjun.m***@gmail.com
Deaf since childhood, finance, Mumbai

"Our team is spread across four cities. Video calls with different Hindi accents were impossible. Captio AI handles all of them. I stopped attending meetings just to seem present."

Kavita R. 🇮🇳
kavita.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Infosys, Bengaluru

"Government meetings use very formal, fast Sanskrit-heavy Hindi. Nothing like daily speech. Captio AI follows the formal register accurately. I know what decisions are being made."

Deepak N. 🇮🇳
deepak.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, government sector, Jaipur

"Delhi standups are fast Hinglish — half the words are English, the rest is fast Delhi Hindi. I was nodding and guessing. Captio AI captures both languages. I follow every action item now."

Priya S. 🇮🇳
priya.s***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, tech company, Delhi

"Mumbai office meetings mix Marathi-accented Hindi with English slides. No interpreter, no captions. Captio AI changed that completely. Client calls are something I actually contribute to."

Arjun M. 🇮🇳
arjun.m***@gmail.com
Deaf since childhood, finance, Mumbai

"Our team is spread across four cities. Video calls with different Hindi accents were impossible. Captio AI handles all of them. I stopped attending meetings just to seem present."

Kavita R. 🇮🇳
kavita.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Infosys, Bengaluru

"Government meetings use very formal, fast Sanskrit-heavy Hindi. Nothing like daily speech. Captio AI follows the formal register accurately. I know what decisions are being made."

Deepak N. 🇮🇳
deepak.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, government sector, Jaipur

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every word in Hindi.

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