Galician live captions and productivity tool for traveling
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Galician traveling
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Galician speakers.
Captions any spoken exchange, anywhere
- Airport staff, hotel receptionists, taxi drivers
- Real time, word by word, as they speak
- Works through travel noise and accents
- No setup — open the app and point it
No language barrier, anywhere in the world
- They speak their language — you read in yours
- 60+ languages, no manual switching
- For customs, hotels, restaurants, and local transport
- Translates in real time as they speak
Transcribe any recorded content
- Record a tour guide, a briefing, an important exchange
- Upload and get the full transcript to review
- Any language, any format
- Useful for travel information you want in writing
Key travel information extracted
- Instructions, directions, and key details from any transcript
- Organised into clear sections
- Useful after complex hotel check-ins or guided briefings
- Works on any saved recording
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Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
At Santiago de Compostela (SCQ), A Coruña, or Vigo, gate changes and boarding calls come in Galician and Spanish. Captio AI captions both languages so you catch every gate number and boarding time.
Renfe regional trains and Santiago's bus station announce departures in Galician and Spanish. Captio AI captions the ticket-counter exchange and the platform PA in real time so you board the right service.
A hospitalero at a Camino de Santiago albergue or a receptionist in Santiago's old town explaining beds, curfew, and the next stage in Galician. Place Captio AI on the desk and follow every word.
Asking the way through Santiago's medieval streets or a village in the Rías Baixas. Fast Galician from a local — Captio AI captions the reply so you take the right path the first time.
Border and customs officers at Galician airports speak quickly, switching between Galician and Spanish. Captio AI captions every question so you answer accurately.
A guide at Santiago Cathedral, the Tower of Hercules in A Coruña, or the terraced vineyards of the Ribeira Sacra delivering Galician commentary. Captio AI captions so you follow the full story.
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Built for a world that announces everything by sound
Captions any spoken exchange in real time
Airport staff, hotel receptionists, taxi drivers, tour guides. Hold the phone toward whoever is speaking and read the captions — in any setting, in any country.
60+ languages — no language barrier
Live Translator captions and translates in real time. They speak their language — you read in yours. For every country, every language, no manual setup between interactions.
Works anywhere with a data connection
Wi-Fi or mobile data. A local SIM or roaming plan keeps Captio AI running in any country — airports, hotels, rural areas, and everywhere in between.
Handles travel environments
Noisy airports, busy stations, echoing hotel lobbies. Captio AI is built for real environments — not quiet controlled rooms. It captions through the ambient noise of travel.
Discreet in any public setting
Hold the phone or place it near the speaker. Captio AI runs quietly and draws no attention — useful in customs, immigration, and any formal travel interaction where discretion matters.
Private by default
Travel conversations — customs declarations, hotel bookings, personal exchanges — are never stored or shared. Audio is processed in real time and discarded immediately.
Why Galician is hard to understand
Gheada
- The /g/ that turns into a breath
- In much of western and central Galicia, /g/ is pronounced as a throaty /h/ or /x/ — gato ('cat') can sound like 'hato'. The consonant a lip-reader expects to see is not made at the lips at all but deep in the throat. At a counter on the Costa da Morte, the sound that should anchor a word simply is not visible.
Seseo
- The z and c that merge into s
- Western Galician merges the 'z' and soft 'c' sounds into a plain /s/, just as in Latin American Spanish. Words that a traveler expects to be distinguished by these sounds collapse together, and the merger varies by region — so the same word can look and sound different depending on which part of Galicia you are in.
Open and closed vowels
- Seven vowels where Spanish has five
- Galician, like Portuguese, contrasts open and closed mid vowels — two different kinds of 'e' and 'o' that change meaning. These vowel qualities are subtle at the best of times and nearly invisible on the lips. A deaf traveler calibrated to Castilian Spanish's five-vowel system misses a distinction that Galician relies on.
Galician–Spanish code-switching
- Two languages blended in daily speech
- Galicia is thoroughly bilingual, and speakers move between Galician and Castilian constantly — sometimes within a single sentence, sometimes in a blended form. A hostel host or a station clerk can switch language without any visual signal, forcing a lip-reader to track two systems at once.
Dialect blocks
- West, centre, and east each sound different
- Galician divides into western, central, and eastern dialect blocks, and features like gheada and seseo cluster in some areas but not others. A deaf traveler walking the Camino across Galicia meets shifting pronunciation from one town to the next, with no single 'standard' spoken form to lock onto.
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Spain has 1,064,000 people who are deaf or have a hearing disability according to the National Statistics Institute — about 2.3% of the population — while more recent EuroTrak data puts the number living with some hearing loss at roughly one in ten, close to five million people. Galicia carries an outsized share of this burden because it is one of Spain's oldest regions by population, and age-related hearing loss rises steeply after 65. Across Spain, fewer than 40% of people with hearing loss use a hearing aid, leaving a large group navigating public life — and travel — on unaided hearing.
Galician is co-official with Spanish across the region, but co-official status has not reached the transport network. Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, and Vigo airports, along with the Renfe rail service and regional bus lines, run on spoken PA announcements with no standardised real-time captioning at gates and counters. The stakes are unusually high here: the Camino de Santiago draws hundreds of thousands of pilgrims into Galicia every year, moving through albergues, stations, and information desks that assume every traveler can hear the spoken word.
Captio AI captions Galician in real time — a boarding call at Santiago Airport, a Renfe platform announcement, an albergue check-in on the final stage of the Camino — so a deaf traveler in Galicia follows every instruction without depending on infrastructure built without them in mind.
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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
"Albergue check-in on the Camino is fast Galician — beds, curfew, where the next fountain is. I used to miss half of it and stress about the rules. Captio AI captioned the whole thing on the counter. I finally understood the hospitalero the first time."
"The gheada here turns the /g/ into a breath, so words I expect to lip-read just are not there on the mouth. Captio AI captioned the Tower of Hercules guide in local Galician and I read every word about the Roman lighthouse. That never happened before."
"Vigo station announces platforms in Galician and Spanish and switches between them mid-sentence. I missed a regional train to Pontevedra once. Now Captio AI captions both languages the instant they play, and I catch the platform every time."
"The Ribeira Sacra tour was in fast Galician about the monasteries and the vineyards on the canyon walls. I would have caught fragments. With Captio AI I followed the whole tour — the wine terraces, the Romanesque churches, the boat down the Sil."
"Albergue check-in on the Camino is fast Galician — beds, curfew, where the next fountain is. I used to miss half of it and stress about the rules. Captio AI captioned the whole thing on the counter. I finally understood the hospitalero the first time."
"The gheada here turns the /g/ into a breath, so words I expect to lip-read just are not there on the mouth. Captio AI captioned the Tower of Hercules guide in local Galician and I read every word about the Roman lighthouse. That never happened before."
"Vigo station announces platforms in Galician and Spanish and switches between them mid-sentence. I missed a regional train to Pontevedra once. Now Captio AI captions both languages the instant they play, and I catch the platform every time."
"The Ribeira Sacra tour was in fast Galician about the monasteries and the vineyards on the canyon walls. I would have caught fragments. With Captio AI I followed the whole tour — the wine terraces, the Romanesque churches, the boat down the Sil."
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