Polish live captions and productivity tool for meetings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Polish meetings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Polish 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-ups and spotkania zespołu in Polish offices where updates come quickly in Polish. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every item.
Teams or Zoom calls with colleagues across Poland or internationally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.
Oceny pracownicze and one-on-one sessions with a przełożony. Important conversations in Polish corporate culture where formal language matters. Captio AI transcribes everything.
Company-wide zebrania ogólne where the zarząd addresses all staff. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.
Meetings with international teams where Polish and English mix — common in Warsaw's corporate sector. Live Translator follows every switch.
Przerwa na kawę conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups. The informal moments in Polish 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 Polish is hard to understand
Consonant cluster density
- Polish consonant clusters are among the most complex in any European language
- Polish has some of the densest consonant clusters of any language: szcz, prz, strz, chrz, pszcz. In fast meeting speech, these clusters reduce and assimilate in ways that make the spoken form radically different from the written form — and almost entirely inaccessible through visual lip-reading. A deaf participant sees a brief blur of lip movement for a cluster that carries several distinct consonants.
Three-way sibilant contrast
- Polish alveolar, postalveolar, and palatal sibilants produce near-identical lip shapes
- Polish maintains a three-way sibilant contrast: alveolar (s/z), postalveolar (sz/ż), and palatal (ś/ź). All three produce very similar lip shapes. In a fast business meeting or legal discussion, the same visual lip pattern represents any of three phonemically distinct sounds that change word meaning.
Mazurian mazurzenie
- Mazurian dialect replaces the postalveolar sibilants a deaf person has learned to track
- The Mazurian dialect of northeastern Poland applies mazurzenie — replacing postalveolar sz/cz/ż/dż with alveolar s/c/z/dz. In a meeting with Mazurian-accented colleagues, the sibilant system a deaf participant has learned to follow shifts completely, introducing systematic mismatches between expected and actual consonant patterns.
Silesian regional speech
- Silesian has distinct consonant patterns and vocabulary from standard Polish
- Silesian (Śląski), spoken by 500,000+ people in southern Poland, has phonological patterns and vocabulary that differ from standard Polish. In a meeting with Silesian colleagues — common in southern Polish manufacturing, mining, and logistics — a deaf participant calibrated to standard Polish encounters a partially different phonological system.
Dense morphological register in formal speech
- Polish business meetings use dense inflected vocabulary where identical lip shapes mean different things
- Polish has seven grammatical cases and grammatical gender. In formal meeting speech, the same consonantal root appears with many different endings depending on case, gender, and number — identical lip movements at the root level represent many grammatically different forms. In fast formal speech, this morphological complexity compounds the already significant lip-reading challenge.
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Download on theApp Store15% of Poles have hearing loss — and Polish Sign Language was officially recognised only in 2023.
Approximately 15.1% of Polish people report some form of hearing loss — a significant proportion of the country's 38 million population. Poland's State Fund for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (PFRON) operates a system similar to France's AGEFIPH: employers who do not meet disability employment quotas contribute to PFRON, which funds workplace integration programs. Despite this framework, deaf and hard of hearing Poles face specific meeting accessibility barriers that the quota system alone does not address — there is no legal requirement for corporate employers to caption daily meetings or provide interpreters for working standups and calls.
Polish Sign Language (PJM — Polski Język Migowy) was not officially recognised as an official language until 2023 — decades after many European countries recognised their national sign languages. Before recognition, Polish oralist educational policy historically suppressed PJM in schools, with documented cases of students' hands being tied to prevent signing. This decades-long suppression set back interpreter training infrastructure significantly. Even after 2023 recognition, professional PJM interpreter provision in corporate meetings remains limited.
Poland's economy has grown substantially, with Warsaw, Kraków, and Wrocław developing significant finance, tech, and business services sectors. Modern Polish professional life is meeting-intensive — daily standups, cross-functional calls, client presentations — and verbal communication drives career visibility. For Poland's deaf and hard of hearing population, the gap between legal recognition of PJM and practical meeting accessibility is concentrated in these everyday professional environments. Captio AI captions Polish in real time — including the dense consonant clusters of formal business Polish, the Silesian-accented speech of southern colleagues, and the fast contracted speech of a Warsaw startup standup.
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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
"Warsaw tech meetings use dense Polish with heavy English loanwords and the consonant clusters are impossible to lip-read at speed. Captio AI handles the clusters accurately. I follow every sprint discussion now without asking my team lead to slow down."
"Polish board meetings use morphologically complex formal vocabulary that looks completely different on the lips from casual speech. Captio AI gives me the full text in real time. Formal meetings are accessible for the first time."
"Silesian Polish in a factory meeting sounds different from standard Polish and most tools flatten the difference. Captio AI handles the Silesian variety. The safety briefing and the weekly standup are both accessible to me now."
"Northern Polish speech has different rhythm and vowel patterns from Warsaw standard. Captio AI handles the regional variation. Video calls with Warsaw head office colleagues are fully accessible to me now."
"Warsaw tech meetings use dense Polish with heavy English loanwords and the consonant clusters are impossible to lip-read at speed. Captio AI handles the clusters accurately. I follow every sprint discussion now without asking my team lead to slow down."
"Polish board meetings use morphologically complex formal vocabulary that looks completely different on the lips from casual speech. Captio AI gives me the full text in real time. Formal meetings are accessible for the first time."
"Silesian Polish in a factory meeting sounds different from standard Polish and most tools flatten the difference. Captio AI handles the Silesian variety. The safety briefing and the weekly standup are both accessible to me now."
"Northern Polish speech has different rhythm and vowel patterns from Warsaw standard. Captio AI handles the regional variation. Video calls with Warsaw head office colleagues are fully accessible to me now."
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