Slovak live captions and productivity tool for meetings
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Everything you need to follow Slovak meetings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Slovak 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 tímové stand-upy and porady in Slovak offices where updates come quickly in Slovak. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every item.
Teams or Zoom calls with colleagues across Slovakia or internationally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.
Hodnotiace pohovory and one-on-one sessions with a nadriadený. Important conversations in Slovak corporate culture where every word matters. Captio AI transcribes everything.
Celospoločenské schôdze where vedenie addresses all staff. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.
Meetings that mix Slovak and English — common in Bratislava's international corporate sector. Live Translator follows any switch in real time.
Prestávka na kávu conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups. The informal moments in Slovak 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 Slovak is hard to understand
Rhythmic law compression
- Slovak's rhythmic law automatically shortens long vowels after long syllables — creating length patterns that differ from spelling in unpredictable ways
- Slovak's rhythmic law (rytmické krátenie) automatically shortens a long syllable that follows another long syllable. This means that as grammatical suffixes are added to long-vowel roots, the vowel lengths shift in ways that differ from what the written form suggests. A deaf or hard of hearing person who has learned to lip-read Slovak from written forms encounters unexpected vowel durations — a feature unique to Slovak among Slavic languages.
Syllabic /r/ and /l/
- Slovak syllabic /r/ and /l/ function as vowel nuclei — common words have no written vowel, producing near-empty visual frames on the lips
- Slovak allows /r/ and /l/ to serve as syllable nuclei: 'vlk' (wolf), 'prst' (finger), 'trh' (market). These consonant-only words produce brief sonorant articulations that look like nothing specific on the lips — a mid-central tongue position with lips open. A deaf person lip-reading these words in a meeting sees an almost empty visual frame for an entire syllable.
Eastern dialect incomprehensibility
- Eastern Slovak dialects use penultimate word stress — vs initial stress in standard — and are described as incomprehensible to Bratislava speakers
- Eastern Slovak dialects (Zemplínsky, Šarišský, Spišský) use penultimate stress, while Standard Slovak uses initial stress. This stress shift changes which syllable carries the prominence on the lips. The resulting prosodic mismatch is significant enough that an inhabitant of Bratislava may struggle to understand a colleague from Košice or Prešov. For a deaf lip-reader, this means the rhythmic pattern they have learned is systematically wrong for an Eastern colleague.
Vowel length contrast
- Slovak phonemic vowel length distinguishes meaning but compresses at meeting pace in ways that remove the distinction from the visual stream
- Slovak distinguishes short and long vowels throughout the vocabulary. At careful pace, long vowels are visually identifiable by slightly longer lip duration. At meeting pace, this duration difference compresses and disappears — creating systematic vocabulary ambiguity for a deaf or hard of hearing person across every sentence of a Slovak business meeting.
Slovak–Czech–English code-switching
- Slovak professionals regularly mix Czech and English into Slovak — creating a three-language phonological environment in a single meeting
- Slovak and Czech are highly mutually intelligible and many Slovak professionals mix Czech vocabulary naturally. Slovak corporate meetings also integrate English management and IT vocabulary. In a Bratislava tech or finance meeting, a sentence may move through Slovak, Czech-origin vocabulary, and English terms — three phonological systems in a single utterance, each requiring a different lip-reading calibration.
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There are approximately 15,000 deaf sign language users in Slovakia, supported by only 35 working sign language interpreters, according to the European Union of the Deaf member country profile. Slovak Sign Language (Slovenský posunkový jazyk) received legal recognition in 1995 through Slovakia's Law on the Sign Language of the Deaf — one of the earlier European countries to achieve formal recognition. Slovakia ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2010. However, with 35 interpreters for 15,000 users, the interpreter-to-deaf-population ratio remains critically low, meaning most deaf Slovak professionals attend formal meetings without real-time sign language support.
The Slovak Association of the Deaf (established 1991) has been a full member of the European Union of the Deaf since 2005, providing advocacy and services for the deaf and hard of hearing community. Despite Slovakia's progressive sign language legislation, the gap between legal rights and everyday meeting accessibility is substantial. In Bratislava's growing technology, automotive, and financial sectors — among the most dynamic in Central Europe — meeting formats are verbal, fast, and often multilingual, combining Slovak with Czech and English in ways no existing accessibility tool was designed for.
Slovakia's geographical position — sharing linguistic proximity with Czech Republic and Hungary, and closely integrated into Central European corporate networks — means that meetings frequently include speakers from multiple language backgrounds. The Slovak-Czech mutual intelligibility that makes meetings linguistically fluid for hearing participants creates an additional accessibility challenge for deaf professionals, who may encounter Czech vocabulary delivered with Czech phonology without any visual signal that the language has shifted.
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Your conversations are not something Captio AI sells, shares, or monetizes — to anyone, for any reason.
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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
"Bratislava tech meetings mix Slovak, Czech vocabulary, and English in the same sentence. Captio AI follows all three in real time. I catch every sprint decision without needing someone to relay what was said."
"Eastern Košice Slovak has penultimate stress and sounds completely different from Bratislava standard. Captio AI handles the Eastern dialect and gives me the full text in real time. Team meetings are accessible for the first time."
"Automotive Slovak uses dense technical vocabulary with vowel length contrasts that disappear at meeting pace. Captio AI handles the full phonemic length and I follow every production briefing accurately."
"Finance meetings in Bratislava use formal Slovak that shifts into Czech vocabulary and back without warning. Captio AI captures the transition between both languages and I follow every decision in the risk meeting."
"Bratislava tech meetings mix Slovak, Czech vocabulary, and English in the same sentence. Captio AI follows all three in real time. I catch every sprint decision without needing someone to relay what was said."
"Eastern Košice Slovak has penultimate stress and sounds completely different from Bratislava standard. Captio AI handles the Eastern dialect and gives me the full text in real time. Team meetings are accessible for the first time."
"Automotive Slovak uses dense technical vocabulary with vowel length contrasts that disappear at meeting pace. Captio AI handles the full phonemic length and I follow every production briefing accurately."
"Finance meetings in Bratislava use formal Slovak that shifts into Czech vocabulary and back without warning. Captio AI captures the transition between both languages and I follow every decision in the risk meeting."
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