Finnish live captions and productivity tool for traveling

Finland has a notable hearing loss burden across multiple populations. Among Sámi adults aged 49–77 in northern Finland, a study found bilateral hearing impairment in 42.9% of men and 29.4% of women, with some degree of hearing impairment in one or both ears in 61.8% of men and 42.2% of women — substantially higher than the general Finnish population. Childhood hearing impairment in southern Finland was documented at a prevalence of 1.1 per 1,000 births (range 0.3–1.9) — consistent with European averages. Across the European context, EuroTrak data places Finland within the broader pattern where 36% of people with self-reported hearing loss across 30 countries use hearing aids, leaving the majority without amplification.

Finland's travel infrastructure — including Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (handling over 20 million passengers per year, the main Nordic gateway to East Asia), VR's intercity rail network, and the HSL Helsinki Metro — communicates critical travel information through spoken Finnish and Swedish PA announcements. Real-time captioning is not a standard feature of Finnish travel infrastructure. Finland's tourist attractions — Suomenlinna sea fortress (a UNESCO World Heritage site), the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Saimaa, Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, and Lapland wilderness safaris — are primarily accessed through verbally guided tours without captioning infrastructure. For deaf travelers, Finland's famous design of public space is accessible in many ways — but audio-dependent travel information remains a gap.

Captio AI captions Finnish in real time — whether a VR platform announcement at Helsinki Central, a customs officer at Helsinki-Vantaa, or a guide at Suomenlinna — so a deaf traveler in Finland follows every instruction and question without depending on audio infrastructure built without them in mind.