Urdu live captions and productivity tool for meetings
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Urdu meetings
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Urdu 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.
Team meetings and morning stand-ups in Pakistani offices where updates come in Urdu or English. Captio AI captions each speaker so you follow every item.
Zoom or Google Meet calls with colleagues locally or with international partners. Put the call on speaker and read captions in real time.
Performance appraisals and one-on-one sessions with a manager. Important conversations in Pakistani corporate culture where nothing should be misunderstood. Captio AI transcribes everything.
Company-wide meetings and town halls where senior leadership addresses the full team. Captio AI captions every word from any seat.
Meetings that mix Urdu and English — common in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad offices. Live Translator also covers fully cross-language calls in real time.
Chai break conversations, desk-side questions, corridor catch-ups after the meeting. The informal moments in Pakistani workplaces where context and working relationships are built. Captio AI covers those too.
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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 Urdu is hard to understand
Pharyngeal consonants in business vocabulary
- Urdu business terms carry throat sounds that are entirely invisible on the lips
- Educated corporate Urdu draws heavily from Arabic and Persian, bringing pharyngeal and uvular consonants — ع (ain), غ (ghain), ق (qaf), خ (khe) — into everyday business vocabulary. These are produced deep in the throat with zero visible lip or jaw movement. In a meeting where a manager is presenting strategy or a client is responding to a proposal, the phonemic core of the most important Urdu business words is entirely absent from the visual field.
Punjabi–Urdu mixing
- Lahore and central Pakistan offices mix Urdu and Punjabi in every meeting
- In Lahore and Punjab-based offices — home to Pakistan's largest corporate sector — team discussions mix Urdu and Punjabi continuously. The code-switching is not marked and carries no signal. A deaf employee calibrated to Urdu misses significant portions of the Punjabi segments, and vice versa. This linguistic mixing is a defining feature of Pakistani professional communication that no accessibility infrastructure addresses.
Register gap
- Formal business Urdu and everyday spoken Urdu are genuinely different registers
- Formal presentations and client meetings use a Persianate, high Urdu register that differs significantly from the fast everyday speech of informal workplace communication. The shift between registers happens mid-meeting, often without signal. A deaf person calibrated to one register misses the other, and the most consequential moments in a Pakistani business meeting — the negotiation, the Q&A, the informal decision — often happen in the register they are least prepared for.
Corporate Hinglish
- Pakistan's corporate meetings mix Urdu with English constantly
- Pakistan's educated corporate sector — in finance, tech, and multinationals — conducts meetings in a mix of Urdu and English. Presentations are often in English; discussion drops into Urdu; questions mix both. A deaf person following one language loses the thread the moment the other appears, without warning and without pattern.
No PSL standard
- Pakistani workplaces have no interpreter provision and no meeting accessibility standard
- Pakistani Sign Language has not been normalised in professional settings. No corporate interpreter standard exists, no captioning provision is available, and no employer guideline addresses the communication needs of deaf employees in meetings. A deaf professional in Pakistan's formal sector attends every meeting — every client call, every standup, every interview — entirely without support.
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Pakistan has approximately 10 million deaf and hard of hearing people — 4.8% of the national population. The employment pipeline for deaf Pakistanis is broken before it reaches the corporate sector: less than 5% of deaf children attend school, according to research on Pakistan's deaf community, which means the formal workforce has lost most of its deaf talent before any professional opportunity arises. For the minority who do reach formal employment, the meeting room is consistently the most inaccessible daily environment they navigate.
Pakistan has no established interpreter standard for corporate settings, no captioning framework, and no employer guideline addressing the communication needs of deaf employees. The WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office's 2023 study on hearing impairment in Pakistan documented the profound impact of communication barriers on families and individuals across the life course — barriers that in the professional context manifest most acutely in verbal, fast-paced corporate communication. Pakistani Sign Language remains unnormalised in public professional life.
Pakistan's corporate sector — particularly in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad — is growing rapidly, with a significant tech and fintech industry, expanding multinational operations, and increasing remote and hybrid work. The meeting-heavy professional culture this creates has no accessibility infrastructure for deaf and hard of hearing employees. Captio AI captions Urdu speech in real time — including pharyngeal consonants in business vocabulary, Punjabi-Urdu code-switching, and the English-Urdu mixing of Pakistan's corporate sector — so the standup, the client meeting, and the interview are accessible.
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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
"Lahore office meetings are Urdu and Punjabi mixed, with English for the presentation. I was following the English and losing everything else. Captio AI follows all of it. I know what was decided."
"Karachi team calls mix Urdu, Sindhi, and English. No interpreter, no captions ever provided. Captio AI captions the call in real time. Client meetings are something I actually lead now."
"Formal Urdu in a presentation is one thing. The Q&A in fast informal Urdu is another entirely. Captio AI follows both registers. I stopped asking for meeting notes after every session."
"Faisalabad offices speak Punjabi-heavy Urdu constantly. Most captioning tools miss the Punjabi completely. Captio AI handles the mixing. Team meetings are mine now."
"Lahore office meetings are Urdu and Punjabi mixed, with English for the presentation. I was following the English and losing everything else. Captio AI follows all of it. I know what was decided."
"Karachi team calls mix Urdu, Sindhi, and English. No interpreter, no captions ever provided. Captio AI captions the call in real time. Client meetings are something I actually lead now."
"Formal Urdu in a presentation is one thing. The Q&A in fast informal Urdu is another entirely. Captio AI follows both registers. I stopped asking for meeting notes after every session."
"Faisalabad offices speak Punjabi-heavy Urdu constantly. Most captioning tools miss the Punjabi completely. Captio AI handles the mixing. Team meetings are mine now."
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