Gujarati live captions and productivity tool for traveling

India carries a hearing loss burden of approximately 63 million people — 6.3% of the national population — with hearing disability ranking as the second most common disability nationwide, according to the National Medical Journal of India. Gujarat, with a population exceeding 63 million, contributes proportionally to this total. An epidemiological study at a peripheral tertiary care hospital in central India found community-level hearing loss prevalence between 6% and 26.9% depending on methodology, age group, and rural/urban setting — with rural populations consistently showing higher rates. India's National Programme for the Prevention and Control of Deafness (NPPCD) has been integrated with state health missions across Gujarat, but access to hearing rehabilitation and audiological services remains uneven across the state's rural districts.

Gujarat's travel infrastructure — including Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (one of India's busiest), the Ahmedabad Metro, the bus network between Ahmedabad, Surat, and Vadodara, and the ferry routes to Diu and Dwarka — communicates platform changes, departure times, and boarding information primarily through spoken Gujarati and Hindi announcements. For deaf and hard of hearing travelers, none of these systems provides real-time captioning as a standard accessibility feature. The Rann of Kutch festival, one of Gujarat's major tourism events drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors, involves guided walks and group announcements in Gujarati where deaf travelers have historically had no structured access.

Captio AI captions Gujarati in real time — whether a ticket window agent at Ahmedabad railway station, an immigration officer at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International, or a guide at Adalaj Stepwell — so a deaf traveler in Gujarat follows every instruction, question, and commentary without depending on audio infrastructure built without them in mind.