Turkish live captions and productivity tool for meetings

Official Turkish census data counts approximately 89,000 people with hearing impairment and 55,000 with speaking disability. Broader prevalence estimates, accounting for mild and moderate hearing loss that does not meet official disability certification thresholds, suggest 1–2 million Turkish people experience significant hearing difficulty in daily life. Turkey's disability employment law requires companies with 50 or more employees to maintain a 3% disabled workforce in the private sector and 4% in the public sector — but the law applies to all disability categories combined, and enforcement and workplace accommodation provision remain inconsistent.

Türk İşaret Dili (TİD — Turkish Sign Language) was banned from education in the late 1800s under Ottoman language policy and the prohibition continued through the 1950s during the era of emphasis on oralism. Legal recognition came only in 2005 through the Law on Disabled Individuals. Decades of educational suppression mean that TİD interpreter training infrastructure is still developing, and professional corporate interpreter provision for Turkish business meetings is severely limited. Many deaf Turkish professionals in Istanbul's corporate sector navigate meetings without any accommodation.

Turkey's economy is diversifying rapidly, with Istanbul's tech, finance, and media sectors expanding and hybrid work normalising. This makes meetings more frequent and more central to professional advancement than in earlier generations of Turkish employment. For deaf and hard of hearing Turkish professionals, this shift intensifies rather than reduces the communication gap. Captio AI captions Turkish meeting speech in real time — including the formal suffix-heavy language of board presentations, the fast code-switching of an Istanbul startup standup, and the Anatolian-accented voices of regional colleagues on a national call — so no meeting is inaccessible.