Vietnamese live captions and productivity tool for meetings

National surveys indicate approximately 1.3 million people in Vietnam with significant hearing impairment, with broader estimates including mild impairment reaching 2.5 million. Employment among working-age Vietnamese with disabilities, including hearing loss, stands at approximately 44% — compared to the general working-age employment rate. Of those who are employed, 87% are concentrated in the informal sector: agriculture, small-scale vending, and handicrafts. Formal employment — the kind that involves meetings, professional development, and career progression — is largely inaccessible to Vietnam's deaf and hard of hearing population.

Vietnamese Sign Language (Ngôn ngữ ký hiệu Việt Nam, NNKH) has regional variants for the north, centre, and south of the country that are not mutually intelligible. There is no national professional interpreter standard, and no requirement for corporate employers in Vietnam to provide communication access in meetings. The absence of a legal framework for workplace reasonable accommodation means that deaf Vietnamese employees entering the formal corporate sector — particularly Vietnam's rapidly growing tech and manufacturing industries — do so without any structural communication support.

Vietnam's economy is expanding rapidly, with Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi developing significant tech, finance, and multinational corporate sectors. Remote and hybrid work has become standard across these industries, making verbal meeting participation more important than ever for professional advancement. Deaf and hard of hearing Vietnamese professionals are navigating this growth with none of the accessibility infrastructure that workers in comparable economies have. Captio AI captions Vietnamese in real time — handling the six-tone system, the North-South tonal variation, and the Vietnamese-English code-switching of a Hồ Chí Minh City startup standup — so every meeting is accessible.