Hungarian 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 Hungarian phone & video calls
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Hungarian 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 with parents in Debrecen or grandparents in a village in the Great Hungarian Plain — who speak fast and assume you caught everything they said. Captio AI captions each word as they speak so you follow the whole call.
A work call with Budapest colleagues on Teams or a client video call in formal Hungarian. Put the call on speaker, point Captio AI toward the audio, and follow every agenda item without losing the thread to suffix chains or geminate pairs.
A callback from a háziorvos (GP) or the NEAK (National Health Insurance Fund) about a referral — formal medical Hungarian spoken quickly. Captio AI captions every instruction and appointment detail so nothing is missed.
A call from OTP Bank, K&H, or a Hungarian utility provider — automated menus in Hungarian, fast-speaking agents, and account information. Captio AI captions whatever comes through the speaker.
A call from Hungarian diaspora family in Germany, Austria, Romania, or Slovakia — often mixing Hungarian with the local language naturally. Live Translator handles any language transitions so distance is not a barrier.
A video call on Viber, WhatsApp, or Teams — the standard tools for Hungarian family catch-ups and remote work. Captio AI listens through the speaker and captions in real time alongside the video feed.
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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 Hungarian is hard to understand
Vowel quantity pairs
- Fourteen vowels in short-long pairs look identical on the lips
- Hungarian distinguishes 14 vowels, each existing in a short/long pair: a/á, e/é, i/í, o/ó, ö/ő, u/ú, ü/ű. The long vowels not only differ in duration from their short counterparts — they often differ in quality too (á /aː/ vs a /ɔ/). On a phone call with compressed audio, the duration cue narrows; for a hard of hearing caller, minimal pairs like 'hal' (fish) and 'hál' (he sleeps) become indistinguishable.
Geminate consonants
- Doubled consonants signal meaning but leave no visual trace
- Hungarian uses geminate (doubled) consonants as a productive meaning distinction — 'hal' (fish) vs 'hall' (hears); 'kel' (he gets up) vs 'kell' (it is needed). The difference is purely one of consonant duration, which is encoded acoustically but invisible on the lips and easily lost on compressed call audio. A hard of hearing person cannot recover geminates without clear audio.
Palatal stops
- Ty and gy are palatals invisible in the mouth
- Hungarian has two palatal stops — ty /c/ and gy /ɟ/ — that are distinct phonemes but visually identical to /t/ and /d/ on the lips. These sounds are produced by raising the tongue body against the hard palate, far behind the teeth, leaving no visual trace. Words like 'tyúk' (hen) and 'tűk' (needles) or 'gyár' (factory) and 'jár' (goes) differ acoustically but are impossible to lip-read apart.
Vowel harmony reduction
- Three-class vowel harmony collapses in fast speech
- Hungarian vowels are divided into front unrounded, front rounded, and back classes that govern suffix choice across the entire word. In fast conversational Hungarian — the register typical of phone calls with family or familiar colleagues — harmonic distinctions reduce as unstressed suffix vowels blur toward a neutral position, stripping away the grammatical scaffold a hard of hearing person might use to parse word structure.
Agglutinative compression
- Long suffix chains blur together at conversational speed
- Hungarian is highly agglutinative — a single word can carry case, possession, number, and verbal aspect as stacked suffixes: 'barátomékéit' (those belonging to people at my friend's place). In fast phone conversation, these chains compress. A hard of hearing caller who misses one suffix boundary loses the grammatical thread for the rest of the word.
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Download on theApp StoreHundreds of thousands of Hungarians navigate daily communication with hearing loss
Applying the GBD 2019 global prevalence rate for disabling hearing loss — approximately 5 percent of the population — to Hungary's 10 million residents points to roughly 500,000 people with significant hearing difficulty. Hungary ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007 and legally recognised Hungarian Sign Language (Magyar jelnyelv) in 2009 under Act CXXV. These steps created a legal framework, but the gap between recognition and daily access to sign language interpretation in healthcare, government services, and employment settings remains substantial.
EFHOH (European Federation of Hard of Hearing People) estimates that approximately one in six Europeans — around 17 percent of the population — has some degree of hearing loss. For Hungarians with hearing difficulty, phone-based communication with state services, healthcare, and banking continues to be the primary channel despite the known barriers it presents. Healthcare callbacks from the national system, insurance correspondence, and municipal service notifications arrive almost exclusively by phone, and the provision of relay services or captioning alternatives remains limited compared to Western European countries.
Captio AI captions every Hungarian phone call in real time — so whether it is a callback from a Budapest clinic, a call from family in Debrecen, or a work call in fast suffix-heavy Hungarian, the words appear on screen as they are spoken.
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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
"NEAK calls about referrals are in fast formal Hungarian full of medical administration language. I used to miss the specialist name, the date, everything. With Captio AI I read the whole callback in real time and have it on screen for reference."
"Pécs has its own accent — the southern Transdanubian vowels sound different from Budapest. Captio AI handles it without any adjustment on my part. I follow calls from colleagues in Budapest and family in the village equally well."
"My daughter moved to Germany and we talk on Viber. She speaks fast Hungarian with German words mixed in. Captio AI captions both languages in the same call — I follow what she says without asking her to slow down."
"OTP Bank automated systems talk fast and give you limited time to press buttons. With Captio AI I read each menu option as it is spoken, make the right choice first time, and actually reach the right department. Simple but huge difference."
"NEAK calls about referrals are in fast formal Hungarian full of medical administration language. I used to miss the specialist name, the date, everything. With Captio AI I read the whole callback in real time and have it on screen for reference."
"Pécs has its own accent — the southern Transdanubian vowels sound different from Budapest. Captio AI handles it without any adjustment on my part. I follow calls from colleagues in Budapest and family in the village equally well."
"My daughter moved to Germany and we talk on Viber. She speaks fast Hungarian with German words mixed in. Captio AI captions both languages in the same call — I follow what she says without asking her to slow down."
"OTP Bank automated systems talk fast and give you limited time to press buttons. With Captio AI I read each menu option as it is spoken, make the right choice first time, and actually reach the right department. Simple but huge difference."
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