Thai live captions and productivity tool for meetings

Over 2 million Thais hold disability cards; 18% of these are hearing impaired — approximately 360,000 registered deaf and hard of hearing Thais. The real number with significant hearing difficulty is estimated higher. Despite the 2007 Persons with Disabilities Empowerment Act, which mandated support services and accessibility provisions, the Thai government has historically not recognised equal employment rights for deaf people. Only 24% of disabled Thais over 15 years old are employed — one of the lowest rates in Southeast Asia. The meeting room is precisely where this gap is felt most acutely: formal employment in Thailand's financial, tech, and manufacturing sectors depends on verbal communication in meetings throughout the working day.

Thai Sign Language (TSL) is recognised but professional interpreter provision for corporate meetings in Bangkok is essentially unavailable. There are far fewer trained TSL interpreters than the demand from the working-age deaf population requires. Employers in Thailand's formal sector — banks, manufacturers, tech companies, government agencies — have no legal obligation to provide meeting captions or interpreters for deaf employees, and almost none do so voluntarily.

Thailand's economy is shifting toward knowledge work, with Bangkok's finance, logistics, and tech sectors growing rapidly. This creates an environment where verbal meetings are more central to professional advancement than ever. A PMC epidemiological study of 87,134 Thai adults found hearing impairment is associated with a range of health and economic outcomes — including reduced working capacity. Captio AI captions Thai in real time — handling all five tones, the Isan-accented voices of a third of Thailand's population, and the Thai-English code-switching of a Bangkok corporate standup — so every meeting is accessible.