Catalan live captions and productivity tool for phone & video calls
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Catalan phone & video calls
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Catalan speakers.
Follow the call in real time
- Captions appear word by word as the other person speaks
- Works on any call — no app integration required
- Put the call on speaker and point the microphone toward it
- Handles compressed call audio accurately
International and foreign-language calls
- They speak their language — you read in yours
- Translates in real time as they speak
- 60+ languages, no setup
- For family abroad, international business, or travel
Transcribe any call recording
- Record the call and upload for a complete written transcript
- Review instructions, information, and decisions after
- Organised by speaker
- Works on any call recording
Key information extracted from any call
- Important points pulled from any call transcript
- Useful for medical calls, customer service, and work calls
- Organised into clear sections
- Works on any saved recording
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Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
A call home to family in Barcelona, Tarragona, or Lleida — catching up in Catalan at the pace of an everyday home phone call.
A work call with Catalan-speaking colleagues or clients — professional Catalan with industry vocabulary, possibly from an open-plan office in Barcelona.
A callback from a Catalan health centre (CAP), a hospital in Girona, or a pharmacy — healthcare calls where catching every detail about a result or a prescription matters.
A call from a Catalan bank, a utility company, or a local government line — automated Catalan menus followed by an agent speaking at full conversational speed.
A call from Catalan diaspora in France, the UK, or Germany, mixing Catalan with French or English mid-conversation.
A WhatsApp or FaceTime video call with Catalan family — the standard platform for Catalan families keeping in contact across the Spanish regions and the French border.
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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.
Why Catalan is hard to understand
Vowel reduction
- Unstressed vowels collapse to schwa with no distinct lip shape
- In Eastern Catalan (including Barcelona), unstressed /a/ and /e/ both reduce to schwa /ə/. A word's stressed vowel may be visible on the lips, but all surrounding unstressed syllables collapse to the same neutral position. On a phone call, the lip landscape becomes much sparser than the written form suggests.
Eastern–Western dialect split
- Central Catalan and Valencian have different vowel systems
- Central Catalan (Barcelona) and Valencian (Valencia) differ substantially in vowel inventory — Valencian preserves vowel distinctions that Central Catalan reduces. Mallorcan Catalan has additional archaic features. A phone call from Palma sounds different from one from Lleida or Valencia.
Consonant cluster simplification
- Final clusters simplify unpredictably in fast speech
- Catalan tolerates complex final consonant clusters — /st/, /lt/, /mp/, /nt/ — that simplify in different ways in fast speech depending on the speaker and region. A lip-reader cannot predict which segment will be dropped, making word endings ambiguous.
Catalan–Spanish code-switching
- Spanish enters mid-sentence, invisibly
- Most Catalan speakers are bilingual in Spanish, and code-switching between Catalan and Spanish is constant and phonologically seamless. A lip-reader tracking Catalan vowel shapes is suddenly facing Spanish phonology — which has a different vowel inventory — with no visual marker indicating the switch.
French Catalan (Rossellonès)
- Cross-border calls add French into the mix
- In northern Catalonia (Roussillon, France), Catalan speakers have incorporated French phonology and vocabulary. On family calls across the French-Spanish border, a third phonological system — French — enters the call without warning.
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Download on theApp StoreHearing loss in Catalonia and Spain: numbers, thresholds, and access gaps
In Spain, the National Statistics Institute (INE) recorded 1,064,000 people who are deaf or have some hearing disability — 2.3% of the national population. More recent EuroTrak survey data suggests around five million Spaniards, roughly one in ten, live with some degree of hearing loss. Spain's disability recognition threshold for hearing loss is notably high: a person must demonstrate approximately 68.6% hearing loss to qualify for the 33% disability recognition that unlocks public support — a threshold that excludes many people with substantial but below-threshold impairment.
Catalonia has two sign languages in active use: Spanish Sign Language (LSE) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC), which has its own distinct grammar and vocabulary and is officially recognised under Catalan regional law. Despite this recognition, interpreter availability outside Barcelona is limited, and Catalan-speaking deaf people in smaller towns — in the Pyrenees, in Lleida province, or in the Valencian Community — face the same phone access gap as deaf communities across Europe: no real-time captioning for calls to banks, healthcare, or utilities.
Captio AI captions every Catalan phone call in real time — from a Barcelona family call mixing Catalan and Spanish to a CAP healthcare callback in standard Catalan — so deaf and hard of hearing users can follow every word independently.
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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.
Private by default
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People love Captio AI
"My family calls in Catalan and switches to Spanish mid-sentence constantly. Before Captio AI I lost track of which language we were even in. Now I read every word on screen and follow the whole call."
"The CAP calls me with appointment times and I always asked them to send an SMS instead. Since I started using Captio AI I pick up every call and read the words as the receptionist speaks."
"Work calls in Barcelona Catalan are fast and the vowel reduction is heavy. Captio AI gives me the captions in real time and I contribute to the meeting from the start."
"I call family in Girona on WhatsApp. They speak Catalan and I mix in French. Captio AI gets both languages and I actually follow the conversations now instead of nodding along."
"My family calls in Catalan and switches to Spanish mid-sentence constantly. Before Captio AI I lost track of which language we were even in. Now I read every word on screen and follow the whole call."
"The CAP calls me with appointment times and I always asked them to send an SMS instead. Since I started using Captio AI I pick up every call and read the words as the receptionist speaks."
"Work calls in Barcelona Catalan are fast and the vowel reduction is heavy. Captio AI gives me the captions in real time and I contribute to the meeting from the start."
"I call family in Girona on WhatsApp. They speak Catalan and I mix in French. Captio AI gets both languages and I actually follow the conversations now instead of nodding along."
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Follow every call in Catalan.
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