Tamil live captions and productivity tool for meetings

India has approximately 63 million people with disabling hearing loss. Tamil Nadu, one of India's most industrialised states and a major centre for automotive, IT, and manufacturing employment, has a significant hearing-impaired population — a Tamil Nadu study found that speech and hearing impaired people accounted for 16% of all disability cases in the state. At the national level, the 2011 census revealed that of 13.4 million working-age hearing-disabled Indians, 73.9% were marginal workers — meaning only 26.1% held stable formal employment. In Tamil Nadu's IT corridor and manufacturing base, the gap between professional opportunity and communication access is concentrated and visible.

Sri Lanka has approximately 300,000 deaf and hard of hearing people — primarily Tamil-speaking in the north and east. The country's sign language infrastructure was severely disrupted by decades of civil conflict, and professional interpreter provision for corporate meetings in Tamil-speaking professional environments remains limited. For Tamil-speaking professionals across India and Sri Lanka, there is no equivalent of a national corporate captioning or interpreter standard.

Tamil's unique phonological position — the only major language to preserve a classical literary register in active daily use alongside its spoken colloquial form — means that every meeting demands phonological processing at two levels simultaneously. Chennai's growing tech sector and Tamil Nadu's expanding industrial base create a more meeting-heavy professional environment than previous generations of Tamil employment experienced. Captio AI captions Tamil in real time — including the formal centamil of a board presentation, the colloquial kotuntamil of team discussion, and the Tamil-English code-switching of a Chennai software sprint — so every meeting is accessible.