Hungarian live captions and productivity tool for meetings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Hungarian meetings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Hungarian 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 csapatmegbeszélések and stand-ups in Hungarian offices where updates come in Hungarian. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every item.
Teams or Zoom calls with colleagues across Hungary or internationally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.
Teljesítményértékelések and one-on-one sessions with a vezető. Important conversations where formal language and every word matter. Captio AI transcribes everything.
Vállalati összejövetelek and all-hands where the felsővezetés addresses all staff. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.
Meetings that mix Hungarian and English — common in Budapest's international corporate sector. Live Translator follows any switch in real time.
Kávészünet conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups. The informal moments in Hungarian 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 Hungarian is hard to understand
14-vowel system
- Hungarian's 14 phonemic vowels — including long/short pairs for all seven positions — compress at meeting pace into indistinguishable lip shapes
- Hungarian has 7 short vowels and 7 corresponding long vowels (á/a, é/e, í/i, ó/o, ő/ö, ú/u, ű/ü), each a phonemic contrast. At business meeting speed, the duration distinction between short and long vanishes from the visual stream, collapsing 14 distinct phonemes into 7 indistinguishable positions. A deaf or hard of hearing person reads every Hungarian word with systematic vowel ambiguity.
Agglutinative morphology
- Hungarian words grow as case, tense, and agreement suffixes stack — and all grammatical meaning is in the invisible trailing suffix
- In a Hungarian meeting, a verb packs prefix, root, and suffix into a single word unit where the grammatical information — direction, person, aspect — is in the suffix that trails off at the end. At meeting pace this trailing suffix reduces and merges with the next word, removing the grammatical signal from the visual channel entirely.
Geminate consonants
- Hungarian geminate consonants — doubled consonants that distinguish meaning — produce a duration difference invisible on the lips at meeting pace
- Hungarian distinguishes single and double consonants: 'hal' (fish) vs 'hall' (hears); 'megy' (goes) vs 'meggy' (sour cherry). The geminate produces a slightly longer hold on the lips — but at meeting pace this duration difference vanishes from the visual stream. A deaf person lip-reading a Hungarian meeting cannot distinguish single from geminate consonants, creating systematic vocabulary ambiguity.
Vowel harmony in suffixes
- Hungarian suffix vowel harmony collapses to near-identical lip shapes at speed, removing all case and tense markers from view
- Every Hungarian suffix takes a front or back vowel form depending on the root word. At meeting pace, the reduced suffix vowel presents the same neutral mid-position on the lips regardless of harmony class — creating systematic ambiguity for a deaf lip-reader trying to identify case endings and verb tenses across every sentence.
Hungarian–English code-switching
- Budapest corporate meetings embed English management vocabulary into Hungarian sentences, mid-sentence phonological system shifts
- Hungarian corporate culture integrates English management, IT, and financial terms fluently into Hungarian sentences. In a Budapest tech or consulting meeting, a sentence in Hungarian may contain English loanwords delivered with English phonology — a shift that breaks the phonological pattern a deaf person has been tracking and requires real-time recalibration.
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Persons with hearing impairment in Hungary have an employment rate of just 11 percent, according to the Hungarian government's disability data cited by the Hungarian Association of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SINOSZ). In a country of approximately 10 million people where experts estimate the actual disability population may be close to 1 million — substantially higher than the 577,000 recorded in the 2001 census — the working-age hearing-impaired population is significantly underserved in employment. Hungary's 2009 Act on Hungarian Sign Language marked a significant legislative achievement, formally recognising HSL as an independent natural language and placing a state obligation to operate a national network of free sign language interpretation services.
Despite the strength of Hungary's sign language legislation — recognised internationally as among the most progressive in Europe — the practical delivery of free interpretation remains constrained by interpreter supply. SINOSZ's network provides legal consultation, audiology, and communication support, but the gap between statutory entitlement and available service means that deaf professionals routinely attend meetings, training sessions, and performance reviews without real-time language access. The 11% employment rate for hearing-impaired Hungarians directly reflects this daily communication gap in professional settings.
Hungary's technology, automotive, and pharmaceutical sectors — major employers concentrated in Budapest and surrounding regions — operate in meeting-heavy professional cultures. The integration of English vocabulary into Hungarian corporate speech adds a second phonological layer that existing accessibility tools were not designed to handle. For a deaf professional in a Budapest tech company or a Debrecen manufacturing plant, the standard business meeting combines the acoustic complexity of Hungarian's 14-vowel, agglutinative phonology with English technical terms delivered mid-sentence.
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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
"Budapest tech meetings switch between formal Hungarian and English mid-sentence. Captio AI follows both in real time. I finally know what was decided in the sprint planning without asking someone to relay it afterwards."
"Debrecen factory briefings move fast in Hungarian and the agglutinative words are impossible to lip-read at that speed. Captio AI gives me the full text in real time. I know every safety instruction and production target correctly."
"Pharmaceutical Hungarian uses complex technical vocabulary in long agglutinative forms. Captio AI handles the full morphology and I follow the clinical briefing completely. The team meeting is accessible without a relay."
"Consulting meetings in Budapest mix formal Hungarian and English terms. Vowel length contrasts disappear at speaking speed and I was missing every other word. Captio AI captions the full meeting and I contribute to discussions now."
"Budapest tech meetings switch between formal Hungarian and English mid-sentence. Captio AI follows both in real time. I finally know what was decided in the sprint planning without asking someone to relay it afterwards."
"Debrecen factory briefings move fast in Hungarian and the agglutinative words are impossible to lip-read at that speed. Captio AI gives me the full text in real time. I know every safety instruction and production target correctly."
"Pharmaceutical Hungarian uses complex technical vocabulary in long agglutinative forms. Captio AI handles the full morphology and I follow the clinical briefing completely. The team meeting is accessible without a relay."
"Consulting meetings in Budapest mix formal Hungarian and English terms. Vowel length contrasts disappear at speaking speed and I was missing every other word. Captio AI captions the full meeting and I contribute to discussions now."
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