Serbian live captions and productivity tool for meetings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Serbian meetings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Serbian 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 тимски стендапови and sastanci in Serbian offices where updates come in Serbian. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every item.
Teams or Zoom calls with colleagues locally or internationally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.
Разговори о учинку and one-on-one sessions with a rukovodilac. Important conversations where every word matters. Captio AI transcribes everything.
Company-wide opšti sastanci where management addresses all staff. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.
Meetings that mix Serbian and English — common in Belgrade's growing tech sector. Live Translator follows any switch in real time.
Coffee break conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups. The informal moments in Serbian 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 Serbian is hard to understand
Four-pitch accent system
- Serbian has four lexical pitch accents — short/long × rising/falling — entirely acoustic and entirely invisible on the lips
- Serbian distinguishes four pitch accents: short rising, short falling, long rising, long falling. These distinctions are carried entirely by the voice's pitch contour and syllable duration — producing no visible lip, tooth, or facial movement. In a meeting, every multisyllabic Serbian word carries pitch accent information that a deaf or hard of hearing person lip-reading cannot access at all.
Ekavian vs Ijekavian
- Standard Serbian (Ekavian) and Bosnian/Montenegrin (Ijekavian) pronounce the same words differently — creating a visual mismatch in cross-regional meetings
- The Ekavian/Ijekavian division means the same word looks different on the lips depending on the speaker's origin: 'mleko' (Ekavian, Serbia) vs 'mlijeko' (Ijekavian, Bosnia). In a cross-border meeting, a deaf lip-reader who has learned to read Ekavian encounters Ijekavian colleagues whose words appear to have extra syllables in unexpected positions.
Pitch contrast collapse at speed
- At meeting pace, Serbian's pitch accent and vowel length contrasts compress — removing the phonological layer that distinguishes hundreds of word pairs
- Serbian's pitch accent and vowel length together constitute a two-dimensional phonological contrast. At fast meeting pace, both dimensions compress — the short/long distinction merges, and the rising/falling difference is lost in the speed of the utterance. A deaf person lip-reading a fast Belgrade meeting cannot access this layer even if they are aware of its existence.
Fast Belgrade speech
- Colloquial Belgrade Serbian drops syllables and reduces consonant clusters at meeting pace in ways invisible to lip-reading
- Colloquial Belgrade Serbian at meeting speed undergoes significant consonant cluster reduction and vowel elision at word boundaries. Common words are shortened, prefixes merge with roots, and the prosodic structure of careful speech is replaced by a compressed fast register. A deaf or hard of hearing person who has learned to lip-read careful Serbian encounters a different set of mouth shapes from a Belgrade colleague in a fast meeting.
Serbian–English code-switching
- Belgrade tech and corporate meetings embed English management vocabulary into Serbian sentences, creating mid-sentence phonological transitions
- Serbia's growing technology and startup sector has created a professional register where English management and IT terms appear mid-Serbian sentence. In a Belgrade tech meeting, a sentence begins in Serbian phonology and ends with English terms delivered without transition. The deaf lip-reader encounters a sudden mismatch of phonological systems without warning.
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Persons with disabilities represented 7.96% of the population of Serbia as of 2016, according to data cited in the UN CRPD review of Serbia. Serbia passed a Law on the Use of Sign Language guaranteeing every deaf person the right to sign language interpreting services, funded by the Ministry of Labour — a significant legislative achievement. However, a historical ban on sign language that existed for decades prior to this recognition created a generation of deaf Serbians who navigated education and professional life without either strong sign language or adequate speech access, producing long-term employment disadvantage that legal recognition alone cannot fully address.
The World Bank's disability empowerment project in Serbia documented the structural employment barriers facing persons with disabilities, including deaf Serbians, with trained interpreters enabling communication with local officials, courts, teachers, and employers. Yet interpreter provision for professional meetings — as distinct from legal and administrative settings — remains limited. In meeting-heavy professional roles in Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Niš, deaf professionals routinely attend formal meetings, negotiations, and training sessions without real-time language support.
Serbia's technology sector, concentrated in Belgrade, is one of the fastest-growing in Southeast Europe. The integration of English vocabulary into Serbian corporate speech adds a second phonological layer to meeting accessibility that existing tools were not designed to handle. For a deaf professional in a Belgrade tech company or a Novi Sad manufacturing plant, a meeting combines Serbian's four-pitch accent system — which provides no visual cues — with English code-switching that no standard captioning tool handles simultaneously.
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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
"Belgrade tech meetings are fast Serbian with English terms mixed in every other sentence. Captio AI captions both languages in real time. I follow every sprint decision without asking for a relay."
"The four pitch accents in Serbian are completely inaudible to me and invisible on the lips — I was always guessing at word meaning. Captio AI resolves the full word from audio. Team meetings are accessible for the first time."
"Ijekavian Serbian from Sarajevo looks different on the lips from Belgrade Ekavian — extra syllables appear in unexpected positions. Captio AI handles both varieties in the same session. Cross-border meetings are accessible now."
"Banking Serbian is formal and fast and the pitch accent distinguishes words I was always misreading. Captio AI gives me the full text in real time. The weekly risk briefing is accessible and I know every decision."
"Belgrade tech meetings are fast Serbian with English terms mixed in every other sentence. Captio AI captions both languages in real time. I follow every sprint decision without asking for a relay."
"The four pitch accents in Serbian are completely inaudible to me and invisible on the lips — I was always guessing at word meaning. Captio AI resolves the full word from audio. Team meetings are accessible for the first time."
"Ijekavian Serbian from Sarajevo looks different on the lips from Belgrade Ekavian — extra syllables appear in unexpected positions. Captio AI handles both varieties in the same session. Cross-border meetings are accessible now."
"Banking Serbian is formal and fast and the pitch accent distinguishes words I was always misreading. Captio AI gives me the full text in real time. The weekly risk briefing is accessible and I know every decision."
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