Macedonian 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 Macedonian phone & video calls
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Macedonian 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 Skopje, Bitola, or Ohrid — catching up with relatives who speak their regional dialect of Macedonian.
A work call with Macedonian colleagues or clients — professional Macedonian with its standard register and sector-specific vocabulary.
A callback from a zdravstvena ustanova (health centre) in Skopje or a apteka (pharmacy) — healthcare calls where catching every word about treatment or results matters.
A call from a Macedonian bank, EVN utilities, or a government service line — automated Macedonian followed by an agent at full conversational speed.
A call from Macedonian diaspora in Germany, Switzerland, or Australia, mixing Macedonian with German or English mid-sentence.
A Viber or WhatsApp video call with family in Macedonia — the platforms of choice for the large Macedonian diaspora staying connected with Skopje.
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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 Macedonian is hard to understand
Fixed antepenultimate stress
- Predictable stress position reduces unstressed syllable visibility
- Macedonian stress falls predictably on the third syllable from the end — a feature unique among South Slavic languages. This means the first one or two syllables of a longer word are unstressed and reduced, making word onsets harder to lip-read. A lip-reader sees reduced initial syllables where they expect the clearest shapes.
Schwa vowel
- The unstressed schwa has a neutral, unreadable lip position
- Macedonian has a schwa-like vowel /ə/ in unstressed syllables — a mid-central vowel with a neutral, nearly closed mouth position. It provides no distinctive lip shape and can stand in for reduced vowels across a wide range of unstressed contexts.
Palatalized consonants
- Soft consonant variants differ in tongue position only
- Like other South Slavic languages, Macedonian has palatalized consonant variants where softening is made by raising the tongue toward the palate. Lip shapes are identical for plain and palatalized versions of the same consonant, making the distinction invisible to a lip-reader.
Three dialect groups
- Northern, Western, and Southeastern Macedonian read differently
- Macedonian divides into three main dialect groups — Northern (Skopje area), Western (Ohrid, Bitola), and Southeastern (Strumica, Štip) — with distinct vowel qualities and prosody. A phone call from the capital sounds different from one from the western highlands.
Albanian code-switching
- Albanian appears in calls from mixed western communities
- In areas with significant Albanian-speaking populations — Tetovo, Gostivar, parts of Skopje — Macedonian-Albanian code-switching is common on phone calls. The two languages are entirely unrelated, and the phonological shift when a speaker moves from Macedonian to Albanian is drastic and unpredictable.
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North Macedonia has a population of 2.1 million. Applying the Global Burden of Disease 2019 prevalence rates for the European region gives an estimated 420,000 Macedonians with some degree of hearing loss. The country ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2011, but the Macedonian Sign Language community operates without full legal recognition in national law, and interpreter provision outside Skopje is limited.
North Macedonia is an EU candidate country, and as part of its accession process has committed to aligning disability policy with EU standards — including the European Disability Strategy framework that covers accessible communication. In practice, phone and video call services in Macedonian — from banking to healthcare to utilities — provide no real-time captioning, and deaf and hard of hearing Macedonians relying on lip-reading or residual hearing on phone calls face systematic access barriers. The Macedonian Association of the Deaf exists but has limited resources to advocate for systemic change.
Captio AI captions every Macedonian phone call in real time — from a family call from the western highlands to a bank callback in Skopje Macedonian — 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
"The health centre calls back quickly but the nurse speaks fast in Northern Macedonian. Captio AI gives me every word in real time and I manage my own appointments without needing anyone to interpret."
"Western Macedonian dialect from Bitola reads completely differently from Skopje Macedonian. Captio AI handles both and I follow work calls from colleagues in both cities."
"I call home to Ohrid on Viber every weekend. My parents speak fast western Macedonian. Captio AI captions every word and I'm part of the conversation instead of smiling and nodding."
"The bank called me about my card and the automated Macedonian ran together. Captio AI gave me the full transcript as it played and I sorted the issue completely on my own."
"The health centre calls back quickly but the nurse speaks fast in Northern Macedonian. Captio AI gives me every word in real time and I manage my own appointments without needing anyone to interpret."
"Western Macedonian dialect from Bitola reads completely differently from Skopje Macedonian. Captio AI handles both and I follow work calls from colleagues in both cities."
"I call home to Ohrid on Viber every weekend. My parents speak fast western Macedonian. Captio AI captions every word and I'm part of the conversation instead of smiling and nodding."
"The bank called me about my card and the automated Macedonian ran together. Captio AI gave me the full transcript as it played and I sorted the issue completely on my own."
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Follow every call in Macedonian.
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