Bosnian live captions and productivity tool for restaurants & cafes
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Bosnian restaurants & cafes
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Bosnian speakers.
Follow the conversation through the noise
- Captions the person across the table in real time
- Works through typical restaurant background noise
- Place the phone between you — no adjustment needed
- No lip reading, no facing the speaker
Restaurants abroad or with foreign speakers
- They speak their language — you read in yours
- For waitstaff, companions, or travel dining
- 60+ languages, no setup
- Translates in real time as they speak
Transcribe any recorded conversation
- Record and get the full conversation in writing
- Review anything you missed after the meal
- Organised by speaker
- Any language, any format
Key points from any conversation
- Important points extracted from any recording
- Useful for business lunches and important catch-ups
- 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 long evening at a Sarajevo kafana with friends, conversation running over plates of ćevapi and backed by the sound of live sevdah music.
A business lunch in a city-centre restoran where colleagues shift between formal and casual Bosnian and the phone might ring mid-order.
Coffee in a small café, the barista chatting with regulars in fast local dialect while you wait for a table.
Ordering in a restaurant where the menu mixes Bosnian and Turkish-origin food names, and the server runs through the specials at pace.
A wedding dinner at a big table — toasts being proposed, children running between chairs, multiple conversations layered on top of each other.
A quiet dinner with a partner where soft voices and the ambient sounds of the open kitchen make word endings disappear.
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Built for the table — however noisy the room
Follows the person across the table
Point the microphone toward the person speaking and Captio AI captions them through the background noise. You do not need to face them, watch their lips, or lean in.
Works through restaurant noise
Restaurant noise averages 80 dBA — well above comfortable conversation level. Captio AI is built for these real environments, not quiet controlled rooms.
Place it and forget it
Put the phone on the table between you and the other person, microphone facing them. You glance at it as needed. No adjusting between sentences, no managing the setup.
No asking for repeats during the meal
Every word appears in real time. If you missed something, the caption is there — you do not need to stop the conversation and ask anyone to say it again.
Any language
For restaurants abroad, multilingual dining companions, or waitstaff who speak a different language. Live Translator captions and translates in real time with no manual setup.
Discreet
A phone on a restaurant table is unremarkable. Captio AI runs quietly, the screen faces you, and most dining companions adapt naturally once they understand what it does.
Why Bosnian is hard to understand
Four-pitch accent
- Tone contrasts invisible on the lips
- Bosnian, like the other South Slavic standard varieties, distinguishes four lexical pitch accents — short rising, short falling, long rising, long falling. These contrasts carry meaning but are entirely inaudible and invisible on the lips, so at a kafana table a deaf diner must resolve ambiguous words from context alone.
Palatal affricate pairs
- Č/dž versus ć/đ look nearly the same
- Bosnian contrasts post-alveolar affricates (č, dž) with palatal affricates (ć, đ). These paired sounds are phonemically distinct but look nearly identical in articulation — a category of visually ambiguous words that even experienced lip-readers struggle to separate reliably.
Ijekavian vowel alternations
- The same root looks different across contexts
- Standard Bosnian uses Ijekavian reflex: older /ě/ becomes /ije/ or /je/ depending on syllable length. In fast speech these sequences compress, so a deaf person unfamiliar with the alternation loses track of which word-form is being used across a dinner conversation.
Fast kafana speech
- Vowels reduce and words elide at pace
- Bosnian restaurant culture is built around leisurely but lively conversation — at a kafana, speech is fast, vowels reduce, and words elide freely. The compaction of casual register makes visible articulation less reliable than at formal speaking pace.
Turkish-origin lexical mixing
- Ottoman loanwords appear without warning
- Ottoman-era borrowings are woven into Bosnian food culture and casual speech — kahva, džezva, burek, ćevapi, čaršija. For a deaf person not expecting Turkish-phonology vocabulary, these sequences can appear mid-conversation and temporarily break the visual parsing of the surrounding sentences.
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Reliable national disability statistics for Bosnia and Herzegovina are limited by the country's complex administrative structure, but a retrospective study of deaf and hard of hearing people registered in the country documented 1,044 individuals across employment offices and social care centres — a figure widely regarded as an undercount given barriers to formal registration. The WHO World Report on Hearing (2021) contextualised the regional picture: globally, over 1.5 billion people live with hearing loss, and the Western Balkans face the same access gaps — inadequate device provision, limited rehabilitation services, uneven policy implementation — that the report identifies as systemic in middle-income settings.
Bosnia and Herzegovina has signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, yet implementation remains uneven across the Federation and Republika Srpska entities. Social research on group dining settings has demonstrated that communal meals present high barriers for deaf participants, combining acoustic noise, multiple simultaneous speakers, and the social expectation of reciprocal real-time conversation — a combination that concentrates exclusion precisely in the settings most central to Bosnian social life.
Captio AI captions live Bosnian conversation in real time, making a seat at the kafana table mean genuine participation, not quiet observation from the edge of the group.
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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
"A kafana in Sarajevo is the worst acoustic environment I know — live music, everyone talking at once, fast Bosnian with Turkish words sprinkled in. Captio AI handles all of it and I followed a whole evening of conversation for the first time."
"The pitch accent differences between Mostar and Sarajevo Bosnian used to trip me up at restaurant meals. Captio AI captions both without issues — I finally stopped asking people to face me when they talk."
"Business lunches were the hardest — fast Bosnian, the server interrupting, everyone talking over each other. With Captio AI I have the text and I can respond properly instead of guessing what I missed."
"I started losing the high frequencies and restaurant dinners became exhausting. Captio AI gives me back the word endings I miss — the ć versus č distinction that changes what someone is actually saying."
"A kafana in Sarajevo is the worst acoustic environment I know — live music, everyone talking at once, fast Bosnian with Turkish words sprinkled in. Captio AI handles all of it and I followed a whole evening of conversation for the first time."
"The pitch accent differences between Mostar and Sarajevo Bosnian used to trip me up at restaurant meals. Captio AI captions both without issues — I finally stopped asking people to face me when they talk."
"Business lunches were the hardest — fast Bosnian, the server interrupting, everyone talking over each other. With Captio AI I have the text and I can respond properly instead of guessing what I missed."
"I started losing the high frequencies and restaurant dinners became exhausting. Captio AI gives me back the word endings I miss — the ć versus č distinction that changes what someone is actually saying."
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Have a real conversation through the noise in Bosnian.
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