Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Spanish live captions and productivity tool for meetings

For deaf and hard of hearing people.

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Use Cases

Every situation covered

Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.

🔄Stand-ups and team syncs

Reuniones de equipo and daily stand-ups in Spanish offices where everyone gives updates in fast succession. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every point.

📹Video calls

Google Meet, Teams, or Zoom calls with colleagues across Spain or Latin America. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.

🎯One-on-ones and reviews

Evaluaciones de desempeño and one-on-one meetings with a manager. Important conversations where every word has consequences. Captio AI gives you a full transcript.

🎤All-hands and town halls

All-hands presentations where leadership addresses the whole company, from Madrid to Mexico City. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.

🌍International and multilingual meetings

Meetings with teams across Spain and Latin America where accents and registers vary — or with international teams where English and Spanish mix. Live Translator follows every switch.

Informal catch-ups

Café machine conversations, desk-side questions, corridor chats after the call. The informal moments in Spanish workplaces where context gets shared. Captio AI covers those too.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Spanish
94.7%

word accuracy

independent benchmark, 2025

< 200ms
you speak
captions

real-time captions

first word appears as you speak

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Why Captio AI

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.

Spanish

Why Spanish is hard to understand

Caribbean speed

  • Caribbean Spanish in a meeting is among the fastest professional speech on earth
  • Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican business speech is among the fastest of any major language — with s-softening, tight vowel linking, and syllable elision that collapses word boundaries. In a meeting with a Latin American client or multinational team, these varieties create a comprehension gap that no lip-reader can consistently bridge at natural conversational pace.

22 countries in one call

  • Spanish multinational meetings put 22 accent varieties in the same room
  • Castilian, Rioplatense, Chilean, Colombian, Mexican — each moves the mouth differently. A deaf Spanish speaker calibrated to Madrid speech will miss significant portions of a Buenos Aires colleague or a Bogotá client. In Latin American multinationals and Spanish-language global teams, this accent variation is a structural meeting barrier that nobody addresses.

Sinalefa in formal speech

  • Formal Spanish runs words together — and meetings use formal Spanish
  • In fast formal Spanish, vowels at word boundaries merge through sinalefa: 'tiene una propuesta' becomes 'tieneuna propuesta', 'está allí' becomes 'estallí'. Business presentations and client meetings — where formal register is standard — are dense with this linking. The written Spanish of meeting notes and emails has clear word boundaries. The spoken Spanish of a Madrid boardroom or Monterrey client call does not.

Spanglish in meetings

  • US and international Spanish meetings switch between Spanish and English constantly
  • Spanish-speaking professionals in the United States, Puerto Rico, and multinational environments mix Spanish and English mid-sentence — a natural feature of professional bilingual communication. For a deaf person, the switch carries no signal and typically contains the most specific technical content of the meeting.

Intonation and implication

  • Spanish emotional register in meetings is invisible without sound
  • Spanish business culture uses intonation and emotional register to signal agreement, doubt, and disagreement that formal vocabulary does not express. The difference between genuine consensus and polite deflection is entirely in tone. A deaf person reading lips in a Spanish meeting follows the words but misses the intent — which in Spanish professional culture is often the most important signal in the room.

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The Challenge

Tens of millions employed. Excluded from the meeting room they are in.

In Spain, approximately one million people are classified as deaf or hearing-disabled, and CNSE (the Spanish National Confederation of the Deaf) has consistently documented that deaf Spaniards face employment rates significantly below the national average, with those who are employed concentrated in lower-skilled and lower-paid roles. Across 22 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, the picture is comparable or worse — disability employment data is patchy, but where it exists, it shows a consistent pattern of formal sector exclusion for deaf workers.

Spain legally recognised Spanish Sign Language in 2007 (Law 27/2007), but the law's provisions for workplace accessibility remain unimplemented in most professional settings. There is no pan-Spanish sign language — Spain uses LSE, Mexico uses LSM, and each country maintains its own — which means there is no interpreter standard for Spanish multinational meetings and no shared accessibility framework for companies operating across multiple Spanish-speaking markets. A deaf employee of a Spanish company working with Latin American clients has no consistent visual language support available.

The WHO estimates that hearing loss costs the global economy USD 980 billion annually in lost productivity, healthcare costs, and social support, with the unmet hearing care gap widest in low- and middle-income countries — precisely where most of the 22-country Spanish-speaking world sits. Professional exclusion through inaccessible meetings is a major driver of this economic cost, and it is almost entirely unaddressed at the workplace level. Captio AI captions Spanish speech in real time — including fast Caribbean varieties, Rioplatense intonation, and Spanglish code-switching — so the team meeting, the client call, and the job interview are accessible.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

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.

100% PRIVATE

Private by default

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"Client meetings in Madrid run fast formal Spanish followed by casual Madrileño. No support available. Captio AI follows both registers. I stopped asking colleagues to summarise after meetings."

Carmen V. 🇪🇸
carmen.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, consultancy, Madrid

"Our team has members in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Miami. Three very different Spanish accents on the same call. Captio AI handles all of them. I contribute to every meeting now."

Rodrigo A. 🇲🇽
rodrigo.a***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, tech, Mexico City

"Client calls with the US team go in English and Spanish mid-sentence. Captio AI follows the switching. I no longer need to ask anyone to slow down or repeat."

Valentina C. 🇨🇴
valentina.c***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, marketing, Bogotá

"Rioplatense in a conference call is completely different from standard Spanish. Most tools get it wrong. Captio AI handles the Buenos Aires accent accurately. Video meetings stopped being something I dread."

Matías G. 🇦🇷
matias.g***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, finance, Buenos Aires

"Client meetings in Madrid run fast formal Spanish followed by casual Madrileño. No support available. Captio AI follows both registers. I stopped asking colleagues to summarise after meetings."

Carmen V. 🇪🇸
carmen.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, consultancy, Madrid

"Our team has members in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Miami. Three very different Spanish accents on the same call. Captio AI handles all of them. I contribute to every meeting now."

Rodrigo A. 🇲🇽
rodrigo.a***@gmail.com
Deaf since birth, tech, Mexico City

"Client calls with the US team go in English and Spanish mid-sentence. Captio AI follows the switching. I no longer need to ask anyone to slow down or repeat."

Valentina C. 🇨🇴
valentina.c***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, marketing, Bogotá

"Rioplatense in a conference call is completely different from standard Spanish. Most tools get it wrong. Captio AI handles the Buenos Aires accent accurately. Video meetings stopped being something I dread."

Matías G. 🇦🇷
matias.g***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, finance, Buenos Aires

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every word in Spanish.

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