Tagalog live captions and productivity tool for meetings

As of March 2022, approximately 1.44 million people in the Philippines — 1.57% of the total population — live with a hearing disability, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority. A 2020 national survey published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health found the overall prevalence of moderate or worse hearing loss at 15% across all ages, rising to 49.1% in adults aged 65 and over. These figures are among the highest recorded in Southeast Asia, driven in part by elevated rates of untreated otitis media — particularly in lower-income and rural communities — that go unmanaged due to socioeconomic barriers.

Despite legal protections under the Magna Carta for Persons with Disabilities, the economic reality for deaf Filipinos in the workplace remains severe. Research from the Institute of Developing Economies found that most deaf Filipinos without higher education struggle to find stable employment, with estimated daily earnings for deaf workers at P35–P60 compared with a national average of P290 for hearing workers. Employers in the Philippines consistently report preferring other disability profiles over deaf applicants, citing communication barriers as the primary reason — barriers that inclusive meeting tools directly address.

The Philippines' BPO and technology sectors have grown into one of the largest in Asia, but workplace accessibility has not kept pace. Meeting formats in corporate Manila are heavily verbal and multilingual — formal English documentation followed by Tagalog discussion — with no standardised captioning provision. Filipino deaf advocacy organisations have identified the absence of sign language interpretation or real-time captioning as the most commonly cited barrier to professional advancement, particularly in meeting-heavy corporate roles.