Norwegian 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 Norwegian phone & video calls
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Norwegian 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 Oslo, Bergen, or Tromsø — catching up in Norwegian with relatives who speak their local dialect at natural pace.
A work call with Norwegian colleagues or clients — professional Norwegian with the regional accent of wherever the caller is based.
A callback from a Norwegian fastlege (GP), a hospital, or an apotek pharmacy — healthcare calls where every word about a result or prescription matters.
A call from NAV, a bank, Telenor, or a utility provider — automated Norwegian menus followed by an agent speaking at full conversational speed.
A call from a Norwegian relative in the UK or the US, mixing Norwegian with English mid-conversation.
A FaceTime or Teams video call with Norwegian family or colleagues — the standard platform for remote contact in Norway's geographically dispersed population.
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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 Norwegian is hard to understand
No spoken standard
- Every region speaks its own dialect in all contexts
- Norway has no standard spoken language — speakers use their local dialect in education, media, and parliament. A phone call from Bergen (Bergensk), Tromsø, and Oslo sounds like three substantially different languages to a lip-reader unfamiliar with the full range of Norwegian variation.
Pitch accent
- Two tones distinguish Norwegian words with no visible lip change
- Norwegian has two pitch tones — tone 1 and tone 2 — that distinguish words with identical segmental content ('bønder' vs 'bønner', for example). The tonal distinction is entirely auditory with no visible lip correlate, making pitch-distinguished word pairs look identical.
Vowel quantity
- Short and long vowels carry meaning with the same lip position
- Norwegian distinguishes short and long vowels that change word meaning. The lip position for a vowel is the same whether it is short or long; only the duration differs. On a phone call, this distinction is invisible to a lip-reader and purely auditory.
Retroflex consonants
- Eastern Norwegian retroflexes are hidden entirely inside the mouth
- Eastern Norwegian dialects (including Oslo) have retroflex consonants — made with the tongue curled back — where other varieties have dental consonants. The lip shape for a retroflex 't' or 'n' looks identical to a dental one; the difference is made entirely inside the mouth.
Norwegian-English code-switching
- English enters naturally in tech, academic, and younger speakers' speech
- Norwegian speakers — especially in technology, academic, and urban contexts — mix English seamlessly into Norwegian. The switch carries no pause or visual signal, and since Norwegian and English share many consonants, the transition is hard to detect visually.
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Download on theApp StoreHearing loss in Norway: prevalence, employment, and the disability pension gap
An estimated 15% of Norwegian adults have some degree of hearing loss, with 5.9% experiencing disabling hearing loss — figures drawn from the large-scale HUNT population study covering Nord-Trøndelag. Hearing aid use increased from 4.2% to 5.8% of the adult population between 1997 and 2018, with 64% of those with disabling hearing loss now using aids (PMC10867996). Despite this improvement, significant participation gaps remain: a follow-up HUNT study (PMC9281024) found that hearing loss increases sick leave and the risk of disability pension, with hearing-related diagnoses accounting for only 0.4% of all disability pensions granted — suggesting that hearing loss as a cause of work withdrawal is systematically undercounted and underacknowledged.
The practical consequence is that many Norwegians with hearing loss navigate phone-based life — banking, healthcare, government services — at a disadvantage that is invisible to the system. Norwegian public services do not provide real-time captioning for phone calls, and interpreter provision for those who use Norwegian Sign Language (Norsk tegnspråk) is limited outside major cities. The gap between having a hearing aid and being able to fully follow a fast phone call from Bergen or Tromsø remains wide.
Captio AI captions every Norwegian phone call in real time — from a NAV callback in Oslo Norwegian to a family call from Tromsø dialect — so deaf and hard of hearing users in Norway 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
"Bergensk is already hard for people from Oslo. With hearing loss it was impossible on a phone call. Captio AI captions my Bergen calls accurately and I follow every word."
"NAV called me about a benefit change and the automated Norwegian ran together. Captio AI gave me the full transcript and I understood everything without calling back."
"My fastlege calls with results and I always asked him to send a letter instead. Now I open Captio AI and read the words as he speaks — I stay in control of my own health."
"I call family in Ålesund on FaceTime. They speak a very strong Møre dialect. Captio AI handles it and I actually understand the conversations — not just the tone."
"Bergensk is already hard for people from Oslo. With hearing loss it was impossible on a phone call. Captio AI captions my Bergen calls accurately and I follow every word."
"NAV called me about a benefit change and the automated Norwegian ran together. Captio AI gave me the full transcript and I understood everything without calling back."
"My fastlege calls with results and I always asked him to send a letter instead. Now I open Captio AI and read the words as he speaks — I stay in control of my own health."
"I call family in Ålesund on FaceTime. They speak a very strong Møre dialect. Captio AI handles it and I actually understand the conversations — not just the tone."
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Follow every call in Norwegian.
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