Latvian 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 Latvian phone & video calls
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Latvian 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 Riga, Liepāja, or Daugavpils — catching up in Latvian or the Russian-Latvian mix common across Latvia's cities.
A work call with Latvian colleagues or clients — professional standard Latvian with sector vocabulary and the regional accent of wherever the caller is based.
A callback from a ģimenes ārsts (GP) or an aptieka (pharmacy) in Latvia — healthcare calls where every detail about medication or a referral must be understood.
A call from a Latvian bank, Latvenergo, or a government helpline — automated Latvian menus followed by an agent at full conversational speed.
A call from Latvian diaspora in the UK, Ireland, or Germany, mixing Latvian with English or German mid-sentence.
A WhatsApp or FaceTime video call with family in Latvia — the standard platform for the large Latvian diaspora staying connected with Riga.
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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 Latvian is hard to understand
Three pitch tones
- Level, falling, and broken tones distinguish words with no lip movement
- Latvian has three pitch tones — level, falling, and broken (laryngeal) — that distinguish word meanings which are otherwise identical. These are entirely auditory with no visible lip correlate. A deaf lip-reader tracking Latvian cannot detect the tonal distinction and cannot distinguish pitch-differentiated word pairs visually.
Vowel length pairs
- Short and long vowels change meaning with the same lip shape
- Latvian distinguishes short and long vowels across the whole vowel inventory — /a/ vs /ā/, /e/ vs /ē/, and so on. The distinction is purely durational; the lip shape for a vowel is the same whether it is short or long. On a phone call this difference is invisible to a lip-reader.
Dialect tonal merger
- Western and Eastern Latvia use different tonal systems
- In western Latvia, the falling and broken tones merge into one; in eastern Latvia (Latgale), the level and falling tones merge. A phone call from Liepāja uses a different tonal system from one from Daugavpils — a source of phonological mismatch for a lip-reader familiar with one region.
Latvian-Russian code-switching
- Russian enters mid-sentence in Riga and Latgale
- Approximately 25% of Latvia's population are Russian speakers. In Riga and across the Latgale region, code-switching between Latvian and Russian on phone calls is common. The phonological shift between the two languages is abrupt — Russian consonant clusters and vowel reduction patterns differ completely from Latvian.
Latgalian dialect
- Eastern Latvian reads differently from standard Latvian
- Latgalian (spoken in eastern Latvia) is sometimes classified as a separate language. It has distinct vowel qualities, a merged tonal system, and vocabulary divergences. A call from Rēzekne reads very differently from standard Latvian spoken in Riga.
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Download on theApp StoreHearing loss in Latvia: 32,000 at risk and limited infrastructure
The Latvian Association of the Deaf (LAD) estimates that approximately 32,000 people throughout Latvia are at risk of social exclusion due to deafness or severely impaired hearing. An EU-funded report found that Latvia had historically lacked a comprehensive service offer dedicated to the socioeconomic integration of deaf and hearing-impaired people — a gap that led to the opening of two purpose-built rehabilitation centres in Riga and Liepāja in December 2011, supported by EU Regional Development Fund investment.
Despite this progress, the rehabilitation infrastructure addresses employment and social integration, not real-time phone communication access. Latvian deaf and hard of hearing people making phone calls to banks, healthcare providers, or utility services have no captioning provision — a gap that affects daily independence. The Global Burden of Disease 2019 study, applying European regional prevalence rates to Latvia's 1.9 million population, estimates approximately 380,000 Latvians with some degree of hearing loss.
Captio AI captions every Latvian phone call in real time — from a family call in Latgale dialect to a Riga bank callback in standard Latvian — 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.
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People love Captio AI
"My GP calls me with results and speaks quickly in standard Latvian. Captio AI gives me every word in real time and I know exactly what my follow-up is for — no more calling back to check."
"Calls from Daugavpils mix Latvian and Russian constantly. Before Captio AI I lost the thread immediately. Now I follow the whole call — in whichever language the speaker is using."
"I call home to Liepāja on WhatsApp every Sunday. My parents speak fast western Latvian. Captio AI captures it clearly and I haven't missed the family news in months."
"Latgalian is very different from standard Latvian and the bank calls are even harder. Captio AI handles both and I managed a card dispute entirely on my own for the first time."
"My GP calls me with results and speaks quickly in standard Latvian. Captio AI gives me every word in real time and I know exactly what my follow-up is for — no more calling back to check."
"Calls from Daugavpils mix Latvian and Russian constantly. Before Captio AI I lost the thread immediately. Now I follow the whole call — in whichever language the speaker is using."
"I call home to Liepāja on WhatsApp every Sunday. My parents speak fast western Latvian. Captio AI captures it clearly and I haven't missed the family news in months."
"Latgalian is very different from standard Latvian and the bank calls are even harder. Captio AI handles both and I managed a card dispute entirely on my own for the first time."
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