Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Live captions and productivity tool for phone & video calls

For deaf and hard of hearing people.

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Captio AI app showing live captions and translation

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Use Cases

Every situation covered

Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.

👨‍👩‍👧Calls with family and friends

Regular catch-ups with parents, siblings, and friends who do not know to slow down on a call. Captio AI captions them in real time so you follow the conversation without asking for repeats.

💼Work calls and conference calls

One-on-ones with managers, team calls, client calls. Put the call on speaker, point Captio AI toward the audio, and follow every participant without losing the thread.

🏥Medical and healthcare calls

GP callbacks, test results by phone, pharmacy queries, appointment confirmations. High-stakes calls where missing a word about a dosage or diagnosis has real consequences.

🏦Banks, utilities, and customer service

Insurance companies, banks, energy providers, government offices. Automated menus, hold music, and fast-speaking agents. Captio AI captions whatever comes out of the speaker.

🌍International calls

Family abroad, international colleagues, foreign customer service. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so language is never an additional barrier on top of everything else.

📹Video calls — FaceTime, WhatsApp, Zoom

Any video call app, on any device. Captio AI does not need to integrate — it listens through the microphone. Put the call on speaker and read the captions alongside the video.

Captio AI in everyday use

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Why Captio AI

Built for the calls you have been avoiding

Captions as they speak

Words appear on screen word by word while the other person is still talking. You read what they say at the same pace everyone else hears it — no delay, no reconstruction.

Works on any call app

Captio AI does not need to integrate with any platform. Put the call on speaker, point the microphone toward the audio, and read the captions. It works the same way for any app on any device.

No more asking for repeats

Every word is on screen as it is said. If you missed something, glance at the caption rather than interrupting the call — the full sentence is there.

Handles call audio accurately

Compressed phone audio is less clean than in-person speech. Captio AI is built for real-world audio conditions, including the reduced quality of standard phone and VoIP calls.

Any language

For calls with family abroad, international colleagues, or foreign-language customer service. Live Translator captions and translates in real time with no manual setup.

Record and review after

Record any call and upload it to Audio Transcription. Get a full written record of everything said — useful for medical instructions, work decisions, and anything worth having in writing.

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The Challenge

The phone was designed for people who can hear it

55% of deaf respondents cite anxiety or frustration when relying on others for help with phone communications, and 83% of hard of hearing respondents report similar frustrations when trying to communicate with family or friends by phone (PR Newswire, 2025). These numbers describe a technology that billions of people use without thinking — and that a significant part of the population has learned to avoid.

The phone removes everything that makes in-person speech accessible. No lip reading. No facial expression. No context from the environment. What remains is compressed audio, often with background noise on the other end, delivered through a small speaker with no visual backup. For a deaf or hard of hearing person, this is not just a harder version of a conversation. It is a different kind of task entirely — one that hearing people do not know they are better equipped for.

The consequences of avoidance are not trivial. 20% of deaf and 24% of hard of hearing people surveyed reported serious concerns that communication barriers would prevent them from contacting healthcare personnel in an emergency (PR Newswire, 2025). The phone call that arranges a medical appointment, reports a side effect, or clarifies a prescription — these are not optional interactions. Avoidance has a cost.

Captio AI is built to make those calls possible. Put the call on speaker. Point the microphone toward the audio. Read the captions in real time. No integration, no platform restrictions, no asking anyone to slow down. Every call — practical, personal, or urgent — now accessible.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

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.

100% PRIVATE

Private by default

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"I avoided phone calls for years. Every call was exhausting and I always missed something important. Captio AI changed that. I can call anyone now."

Ruth T. 🇺🇸
ruth.t***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Chicago

"Video calls with my family used to be the hardest part of my week. Captio AI gives me everything they say in real time. Now I look forward to them."

Anders L. 🇸🇪
anders.l***@gmail.com
Deaf, Gothenburg

"I used to ask my sister to make calls for me. Portuguese phone calls are fast and I missed too much. Now I make them myself."

Sofia R. 🇵🇹
sofia.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Lisbon

"Calls in Arabic were always the worst — fast speech, no visual cues, nothing to fall back on. Captio AI made them manageable for the first time."

Nour M. 🇱🇧
nour.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Beirut

"I avoided phone calls for years. Every call was exhausting and I always missed something important. Captio AI changed that. I can call anyone now."

Ruth T. 🇺🇸
ruth.t***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Chicago

"Video calls with my family used to be the hardest part of my week. Captio AI gives me everything they say in real time. Now I look forward to them."

Anders L. 🇸🇪
anders.l***@gmail.com
Deaf, Gothenburg

"I used to ask my sister to make calls for me. Portuguese phone calls are fast and I missed too much. Now I make them myself."

Sofia R. 🇵🇹
sofia.r***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Lisbon

"Calls in Arabic were always the worst — fast speech, no visual cues, nothing to fall back on. Captio AI made them manageable for the first time."

Nour M. 🇱🇧
nour.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Beirut

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Follow every call. No more asking people to repeat.

Captio AI is free to start

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