Swedish live captions and productivity tool for meetings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Swedish meetings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Swedish 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 teammöten in Swedish offices where colleagues give structured updates in quick succession. Captio AI captions each person so you follow every point.
Teams or Zoom calls with colleagues across Sweden or internationally. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.
Medarbetarsamtal and one-on-one sessions with a chef. Important conversations in Swedish corporate culture where every word matters. Captio AI transcribes everything.
Stormöten and all-hands where ledningen addresses the whole company. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.
Meetings with international teams where Swedish and English mix — standard in Stockholm's global corporate sector. Live Translator follows every switch.
Fikapaus conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups. The informal moments in Swedish offices where working relationships are built. Captio AI covers those too.
Most accurate and fastest models
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first word appears as you speak
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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 Swedish is hard to understand
Pitch accent
- Swedish has two lexical pitch accents — Accent 1 and Accent 2 — that distinguish word meaning but leave no trace on the lips
- Swedish is one of the few European languages with contrastive lexical tone: 'anden' (the duck) vs 'anden' (the spirit) are distinguished entirely by their pitch contour. For a deaf or hard of hearing person in a Swedish meeting, these tonal distinctions are completely invisible — two words with identical lip shapes mean different things depending on a pitch pattern that only reaches the ear.
sj-sound /ɧ/
- The Swedish sj-sound — a unique fricative found in no other language — is produced far back with spread lips, creating a misleading visual signal
- The Swedish /ɧ/ (as in 'sjuk', 'skjorta', 'kjol') is a highly rounded, back fricative unique to Swedish — classified by linguists as one of the most unusual sounds in any European language. On the lips, it resembles a rounded /w/ or /u/, creating a systematic mismatch between what the lips show and what the word actually is. This phoneme appears frequently in common Swedish vocabulary.
Skåne dialect
- Skåne Swedish has a radically different pitch accent and prosody — sounding to other Swedes almost like another language
- Skåne Swedish (spoken in southern Sweden) has a phonological system shaped by centuries of Danish influence, including different pitch accent realisation and an intonation pattern that other Swedish speakers describe as nearly unrecognisable. In a meeting with a Malmö or Helsingborg participant, a deaf lip-reader familiar with Stockholm Swedish encounters a systematically different prosodic pattern.
17 distinctive vowels
- Swedish has 17 distinctive vowel phonemes — including long/short contrasts — that compress at meeting pace into visually similar shapes
- Swedish has 9 vowel qualities each in long and short form, giving approximately 17 distinctive vowel phonemes. At meeting speed, the length distinction between long and short vowels — which distinguishes 'mat' (food) from 'matt' (dim/worn) — compresses and disappears from the visual stream, creating systematic vocabulary ambiguity for a deaf or hard of hearing person across every sentence.
Swedish–English code-switching
- Swedish corporate and tech meetings integrate English terms mid-sentence, one of the most English-dense working environments in Europe
- Swedish corporate, tech, and academic environments are among the most English-integrated in Europe. In a Stockholm meeting, a sentence may be structurally Swedish but contain English terminology for technology, management, and finance delivered with English phonology. A deaf person lip-reading Swedish encounters these English segments as unexpected phonological mismatches mid-sentence.
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Approximately 1.3 million people in Sweden — around 13% of the total population of 10 million — live with some degree of hearing loss. Of these, approximately 0.7 per 1,000 inhabitants are profoundly deaf and use Swedish Sign Language (SSL) as their primary language. SSL was officially recognised by the Swedish parliament in 2009, making Sweden one of the earliest countries globally to grant sign language full official recognition. Despite this progressive legal framework, research shows that deaf Swedes have consistently lower employment rates and lower educational attainment than the hearing population — a compounding disadvantage that concentrates deaf professionals in lower-skilled roles.
Swedish labour law requires employers to make individual adjustments to working conditions for employees with disabilities, and deaf workers are employed in the public sector at higher rates than in the private sector — suggesting that public-sector accessibility requirements are more consistently enforced. Research published in the Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research shows that lower educational outcomes translate directly into a ceiling effect for deaf professionals seeking management and specialist positions where meeting participation is most intensive.
Sweden's technology and innovation sectors — globally prominent in per-capita terms — are among the most English-integrated working environments in Europe. Swedish tech meetings routinely include English documentation and English terms delivered mid-Swedish sentence. For a deaf professional in a Stockholm fintech, gaming, or manufacturing company, the meeting accessibility challenge combines phonological complexity (Swedish's pitch accent and large vowel inventory) with code-switching that no standard Swedish captioning tool was designed to handle simultaneously.
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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
"Stockholm tech standups are fast Swedish with English terms mid-sentence. Captio AI follows both languages in the same session. I catch every blocker and action item without asking my team lead to slow down."
"Gothenburg Swedish has a West Swedish pitch pattern that sounds different from Stockholm. Captio AI handles the regional variety and gives me the full text in real time. Team meetings are accessible for the first time in my career."
"Malmö Skåne Swedish is almost unrecognisable from Stockholm standard and no tool handled it before. Captio AI captures the Skåne accent accurately. The weekly financial briefing is fully readable now."
"Healthcare Swedish in Uppsala uses a mix of formal registers and English medical terms. Captio AI handles both. The clinical team briefing is accessible and I know every patient-flow decision without relying on a relay."
"Stockholm tech standups are fast Swedish with English terms mid-sentence. Captio AI follows both languages in the same session. I catch every blocker and action item without asking my team lead to slow down."
"Gothenburg Swedish has a West Swedish pitch pattern that sounds different from Stockholm. Captio AI handles the regional variety and gives me the full text in real time. Team meetings are accessible for the first time in my career."
"Malmö Skåne Swedish is almost unrecognisable from Stockholm standard and no tool handled it before. Captio AI captures the Skåne accent accurately. The weekly financial briefing is fully readable now."
"Healthcare Swedish in Uppsala uses a mix of formal registers and English medical terms. Captio AI handles both. The clinical team briefing is accessible and I know every patient-flow decision without relying on a relay."
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