Swedish 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 Swedish phone & video calls
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Swedish 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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Download on theApp StoreEvery situation covered
Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
A call with parents in Stockholm or family up in Norrland — whose accent and speech speed are very different from textbook Swedish. Captio AI captions each word as they speak so you follow the whole conversation without asking them to repeat.
A work call with colleagues in Gothenburg or a client video call with someone from Malmö, where Skånska sounds significantly different from Stockholm Swedish. Put the call on speaker and follow every discussion without losing context.
A callback from your vårdcentral (health centre) or 1177 Vårdguiden — formal Swedish spoken quickly with medical instructions. Captio AI captions every detail of the appointment or prescription in real time.
A call from Swedbank, SEB, Handelsbanken, or the Försäkringskassan (social insurance agency) — automated systems in Swedish and fast-speaking agents. Captio AI captions whatever comes through the speaker.
A call from Swedish family in Finland, or from a Swedish-speaking relative in a Finnish city — Finland-Swedish with a completely different prosody and intonation. Live Translator and captions handle both varieties without switching.
A video call on Teams, FaceTime, or WhatsApp — the standard tools for Swedish remote work and family catch-ups. 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 Swedish is hard to understand
Pitch accent
- Swedish has two tones — invisible on a phone call
- Swedish is one of very few European languages with a lexical pitch accent — two distinct tonal patterns called 'acute' (tone 1) and 'grave' (tone 2) — that distinguish meaning. The word 'anden' (the duck) vs 'anden' (the spirit) differ only in pitch contour. On a phone call with compressed audio, this tonal distinction is the first thing to be degraded; for a hard of hearing caller, it was never accessible in the first place.
Sj-sound variation
- The Swedish sj-sound varies dramatically across dialects
- The Swedish /ɧ/ — known as the sj-ljud — is notoriously variable: a labial-palatal fricative in central Swedish, a retroflex approximant in some varieties, and entirely different in southern and Finland-Swedish dialects. It has no consistent visible lip configuration. On a phone call, the sj-sound's acoustic realization varies so much by region that a hard of hearing caller who has calibrated to one variety may not recognize it in another.
Regional dialect gap
- Skånska sounds completely different from Norrland Swedish
- Swedish has six major dialect groups: Norrland, Svealand, Gotland, Götaland, South Swedish (Skånska), and East Swedish (Finland-Swedish). Skånska in the far south is so distinct that even Swedish hearing people from the north sometimes struggle with it. Finland-Swedish — spoken by the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland — has different intonation, vowel quality, and loanwords. A hard of hearing person calibrated to Stockholm Swedish may find these varieties nearly incomprehensible without captions.
Vowel length distinction
- Swedish long and short vowels change quality as well as duration
- Like Czech and Dutch, Swedish distinguishes vowel length as a meaning distinction — 'mat' (food, short /a/) vs 'mat' (carpet, long /aː/). But Swedish long vowels also change quality compared to their short counterparts: long /eː/ and short /ɛ/ are not just different in duration but in tongue position. On compressed call audio, both the duration and the quality shift are reduced, leaving minimal cues for a hard of hearing person.
Finland-Swedish prosody
- Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish have different intonation entirely
- Finland-Swedish — spoken by the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland — has a distinctly different prosodic pattern from Standard Sweden-Swedish: different pitch contours, a more syllable-timed rhythm, and Finnish loanwords. A hard of hearing caller expecting standard Swedish prosody will find Finland-Swedish calls significantly harder to follow, particularly on compressed phone audio.
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Download on theApp Store1.3 million Swedes live with hearing loss — and nearly half lack hearing aids
Approximately 1.3 million people in Sweden — out of a total population of 10 million — have some degree of hearing loss. A 2020 descriptive epidemiological study published in a peer-reviewed journal found that hearing difficulties increased significantly with age and were more common in men, with an overall prevalence of 13.1 percent in men and 9.8 percent in women. Almost half of the people who would clinically benefit from a hearing aid in Sweden do not have one — reflecting a persistent gap between identified need and access to assistive technology.
Around 7,400 people in Sweden are registered users of sign language interpretation services (STS-IS), though usage frequency varies considerably among registered users. Research on deaf people and the labour market in Sweden found that deaf people are significantly more likely to be registered with the Swedish Public Employment Service and enrolled in wage subsidy or sheltered employment programmes than the general population — reflecting persistent employment barriers linked to communication access rather than capability. A 2010 study in Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research documented that deaf people in Sweden had lower employment rates, different sectoral distribution, and greater reliance on social support programmes.
Captio AI captions every Swedish phone call in real time — so whether it is the 1177 health line, a call from family in Norrland, or a Skype call with a Finland-Swedish relative, the words appear on screen as they are spoken.
[1]PMC — Descriptive epidemiological study of sensory difficulties in Sweden 2020 (PMC11468505)
[2]Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research — Patient or citizen? Interpretation in Sweden
[3]DiVA — Deaf people and the labour market in Sweden
[4]GBD 2019 — Hearing loss prevalence and years lived with disability (PMC7960691)
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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
"1177 calls are already stressful — you have limited time and formal medical Swedish. With Captio AI I read the nurse's words in real time and note the appointment details as she speaks. No more calling back to ask what I missed."
"Gothenburg Swedish has its own rhythm — the göteborgska accent is distinct. Captio AI handles it alongside Stockholm Swedish without any adjustment. I use it for work calls with Stockholm colleagues and family calls from Gothenburg."
"Finland-Swedish sounds completely different from Sweden-Swedish — the intonation, the rhythm, some words. Captio AI follows my calls well enough that I use it every time I speak with relatives in Sweden who do not realise I speak differently from them."
"Norrland Swedish has a distinctive sing-song quality that I grew up with. Calls from family down in Skåne are almost incomprehensible — completely different accent. Captio AI captions both and I follow the whole call regardless of where the person is from."
"1177 calls are already stressful — you have limited time and formal medical Swedish. With Captio AI I read the nurse's words in real time and note the appointment details as she speaks. No more calling back to ask what I missed."
"Gothenburg Swedish has its own rhythm — the göteborgska accent is distinct. Captio AI handles it alongside Stockholm Swedish without any adjustment. I use it for work calls with Stockholm colleagues and family calls from Gothenburg."
"Finland-Swedish sounds completely different from Sweden-Swedish — the intonation, the rhythm, some words. Captio AI follows my calls well enough that I use it every time I speak with relatives in Sweden who do not realise I speak differently from them."
"Norrland Swedish has a distinctive sing-song quality that I grew up with. Calls from family down in Skåne are almost incomprehensible — completely different accent. Captio AI captions both and I follow the whole call regardless of where the person is from."
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