Marathi live captions and productivity tool for meetings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Marathi meetings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Marathi 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.
Team meetings and stand-ups in Pune and Mumbai offices where updates come in Marathi or English. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every point.
Google Meet or Teams calls with colleagues across Maharashtra or nationally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.
Appraisal sessions and one-on-one meetings with a reporting manager. High-stakes conversations in Maharashtrian corporate culture where nothing should be missed. Captio AI transcribes everything.
Company-wide meetings where senior leadership presents to the full team. Captio AI captions every word from any seat in the room.
Meetings that mix Marathi, Hindi, and English — common across Maharashtra's corporate sector. Live Translator follows every switch in real time.
Chai break conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups after the meeting. The informal moments in Indian workplaces where context and decisions are shared. 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 Marathi is hard to understand
Four-way stop contrasts
- Marathi consonant contrasts that change meaning produce identical lip shapes
- Marathi has a four-way contrast in stops: voiceless unaspirated, voiceless aspirated, voiced unaspirated, and voiced aspirated. In a board room or video call, pa/pha/ba/bha distinctions that completely change word meaning produce near-identical lip shapes. A deaf participant has no visual signal to resolve them.
Pune–Mumbai–Marathwada split
- Three distinct phonological systems meet in a single Maharashtra meeting
- Pune corporate Marathi, faster Mumbai-influenced Marathi, and Marathwada regional Marathi each bring distinct phonological patterns. Marathwada speech simplifies retroflex consonants in ways that alter word recognition. A meeting with colleagues from different cities is a meeting with multiple dialects.
Retroflex vs dental confusion
- Marathi retroflex and dental consonant pairs produce near-identical lip shapes
- The contrast between retroflex ट and dental त — both critical to Marathi vocabulary — produces similar lip shapes. In the fast speech of a Pune tech meeting or a Mumbai finance call, this distinction, which is acoustically clear, disappears completely at the visual level.
Sanskrit formal register
- Formal Marathi board meetings use a different phonological inventory from everyday speech
- Formal Marathi in presentations and board meetings draws on Sanskrit-derived vocabulary with retroflex consonants and conjunct clusters that sound markedly different from conversational Marathi. A deaf participant who has some familiarity with everyday speech encounters a different phonological system in a formal meeting.
Marathi–Hindi–English code-switching
- Three-language switching requires three phonological maps running simultaneously
- Mumbai and Pune meetings frequently layer all three languages — switching between Marathi, Hindi, and English mid-sentence. For a deaf participant, tracking which language is currently active requires simultaneously running three separate phonological maps.
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Download on theApp Store63 million deaf and hard of hearing Indians — and Maharashtra's corporate meetings are still inaccessible.
India has approximately 63 million people with disabling hearing loss, one of the largest deaf and hard of hearing populations in the world. Maharashtra, as one of India's most populous and economically significant states, has a proportionally large share of this population. The 2011 census revealed that of 13.4 million working-age Indians with hearing disability, 73.9% were classified as marginal workers — meaning only 26.1% had stable, formal employment. For a state whose economy is centred on Mumbai's financial sector and Pune's technology and manufacturing industries — both environments dominated by verbal meetings — this represents a profound structural exclusion.
India's Persons with Disabilities Act (1995) and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act (2016) both mandate employment provisions for people with hearing disabilities, including 1% reservation in government employment. But implementation has been inconsistent, particularly in the private sector. More critically, there is no corporate interpreter provision standard, no captioning framework for Indian-language meetings, and no established process requiring companies to make internal meetings accessible to deaf employees. The absence of a nationally accepted sign language — India has over 100 regional sign languages — means interpreter access is fragmented even for those who seek it.
Maharashtra's corporate landscape is evolving rapidly, with hybrid and remote work now standard across Pune's tech industry and Mumbai's finance sector. This creates a more meeting-intensive professional environment than previous generations experienced. Deaf and hard of hearing Marathi professionals are navigating this shift without the accessibility infrastructure that equivalent workers in Germany or France have access to. Captio AI captions Marathi in real time — including the Pune corporate dialect, the Mumbai-accented speed of a startup standup, and the Marathi-Hindi-English code-switching that defines most real meetings — so the daily standup is something a deaf Marathi professional can fully follow.
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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
"Pune tech meetings switch between Marathi, English, and sometimes Hindi in the same sentence. Captio AI captions all three languages accurately. I know what every code review comment means now without asking someone to repeat it."
"Mumbai Marathi moves fast and the code-switching with English is constant. Captio AI keeps up with the pace and handles the dialect accurately. Board meetings are fully accessible to me now."
"Nashik-accented Marathi in a factory meeting sounds different from Pune corporate speech. Captio AI handles the regional variety accurately. The safety briefings and the team standups are both accessible now."
"Marathwada Marathi has phonological patterns that most tools flatten into something unrecognisable. Captio AI handles the regional speech. I can follow team discussions without relying on colleagues to fill me in afterwards."
"Pune tech meetings switch between Marathi, English, and sometimes Hindi in the same sentence. Captio AI captions all three languages accurately. I know what every code review comment means now without asking someone to repeat it."
"Mumbai Marathi moves fast and the code-switching with English is constant. Captio AI keeps up with the pace and handles the dialect accurately. Board meetings are fully accessible to me now."
"Nashik-accented Marathi in a factory meeting sounds different from Pune corporate speech. Captio AI handles the regional variety accurately. The safety briefings and the team standups are both accessible now."
"Marathwada Marathi has phonological patterns that most tools flatten into something unrecognisable. Captio AI handles the regional speech. I can follow team discussions without relying on colleagues to fill me in afterwards."
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