Hungarian live captions and productivity tool for traveling
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
coming soon
Download for free
Download on theApp Store
Everything you need to follow Hungarian traveling
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Hungarian 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
Download for free
Download on theApp StoreEvery situation covered
Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.
Gate changes and boarding calls at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (BUD) come in Hungarian and English. Captio AI captions both languages so you catch gate numbers and boarding times without missing a departure.
MÁV-Start intercity trains announce stops in Hungarian. At Budapest Keleti, Kelenföldi, or Déli train station, Captio AI captions the ticket window exchange and platform PA in real time.
A hotel receptionist in Budapest's 7th district or in Pécs explaining check-in details and local tips in Hungarian. Place Captio AI on the desk and follow the full conversation without asking for anything repeated.
Asking for directions near Budapest's Buda Castle or navigating the BKK Metro. Fast Hungarian from locals and BKK tram drivers — Captio AI captions their reply so you find your way.
Hungarian border control and customs at Budapest Liszt Ferenc Airport speak quickly in formal Hungarian and English. Captio AI captions every question so you respond accurately.
A guide at Buda Castle, the Széchenyi thermal bath, or the Eger castle delivering Hungarian commentary on Magyar history and Ottoman heritage. Captio AI captions in real time so you follow every detail.
Most accurate and fastest models
word accuracy
independent benchmark, 2025
real-time captions
first word appears as you speak
Download for free
Download on theApp Store
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 Hungarian is hard to understand
Vowel length contrasts
- Hungarian's 7 short-long vowel pairs differ only in duration — no visible lip change
- Hungarian has 14 vowel phonemes: 7 short vowels and 7 corresponding long vowels. Long vowels are 1.5–2 times the duration of their short counterparts — but share the same lip shape. At Budapest Liszt Ferenc Airport or a Keleti station ticket window, a Hungarian agent's speech involves constant vowel length distinctions that carry lexical meaning. A deaf traveler watching the agent's face gets the vowel quality but never the length — and length alone separates many word pairs.
Palatal stops ty/gy
- Hungarian has palatal stops /c/ and /ɟ/ produced at the palate — invisible on the lips
- Hungarian has two palatal stops /c/ (ty) and /ɟ/ (gy) that are rare in European languages. These are produced at the hard palate with no distinctive lip movement — they look like the speaker is saying a vowel. Common words at Budapest hotel desks, train counters, and taxi conversations include ty and gy; a deaf traveler reads the speaker's face and finds no consonant cue where a palatal stop has just occurred.
Geminate consonants
- Double consonants differ from single ones only in duration — invisible on the lips
- Hungarian has phonemically distinctive geminate consonants — doubled consonants held twice as long as single ones. At a Budapest hotel reception or a Balaton ferry terminal, the difference between a single and doubled consonant is a duration difference not associated with any change in articulation position or lip shape. A deaf traveler watching a Hungarian speaker's face cannot access this distinction that changes word meaning.
Vowel harmony in suffix chains
- Hungarian suffixes harmonize with the stem — front/back distinctions are subtle on the lips
- Hungarian uses back-front vowel harmony: suffixes must harmonize with the stem vowel in backness. A simple hotel booking request in Hungarian involves harmonized suffix chains where /a/ vs /e/, /o/ vs /ø/, and /u/ vs /y/ alternate across suffixes. These front/back pairs differ minimally in lip shape, and in fast speech the distinctions compress further — a deaf traveler sees near-identical mouth shapes for a grammatically significant vowel variation.
Budapest-English code-switching in tourism
- Budapest tourist industry staff switch between Hungarian and English mid-sentence
- In Budapest's large tourism industry — hotel staff, Buda Castle guides, riverboat tour crews — Hungarian switches to English mid-sentence routinely. At a Budapest hotel check-in or a Castle District tour, a staff member transitions from Hungarian to English without visual announcement. A deaf traveler reading Hungarian lip-shapes must suddenly apply English phoneme mappings — no visual transition signals the language change.
Download for free
Download on theApp StoreHearing loss and travel accessibility in Hungary
Eastern Europe has a hearing loss prevalence rate approximately 1.35 times higher than Western Europe, according to WHO regional data. For Hungary, with a population of approximately 9.7 million, this translates to a substantial number of people navigating daily life with hearing impairment — estimates consistent with EuroTrak data placing Eastern European self-reported hearing loss at around 20–25% of the adult population. A study on the genetic basis of hearing loss in the Central European Roma population — which makes up approximately 7–8% of Hungary's population — found a significant burden of hereditary hearing loss through MARVELD2 mutations, highlighting that certain communities within Hungary face a disproportionately high rate of congenital deafness.
Hungary's travel infrastructure — including Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport (handling over 16 million passengers per year), MÁV-Start's intercity rail network connecting Budapest to Pécs, Debrecen, Miskolc, and Győr, and BKK's metro, tram, and bus network in Budapest — communicates critical travel information through spoken Hungarian PA announcements. Real-time captioning is not a standard accessibility feature. Budapest's tourist attractions — Buda Castle, Matthias Church, the Széchenyi and Gellért thermal baths, the Chain Bridge, and the Danube riverboat tours — draw over 20 million visitors per year; guided tours are conducted verbally without captioning infrastructure.
Captio AI captions Hungarian in real time — whether a platform announcement at Budapest Keleti, an immigration officer at Liszt Ferenc International, or a guide at Buda Castle — so a deaf traveler in Hungary follows every instruction and question without depending on audio infrastructure built without them in mind.
Download for free
Download on theApp StoreWhat you hear stays with you.
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
Download on theApp StoreCaptio AI supports 60+ languages
People love Captio AI
"Platform announcements at Keleti come in fast Hungarian with a bad echo. I held Captio AI toward the PA speaker and the platform number appeared on screen. I've stopped running between tracks to check the departure board."
"The hotel receptionist in Pécs spoke fast southern Hungarian — different pace from Budapest. Captio AI captioned the check-in details and breakfast schedule accurately. I didn't need to write anything or ask for anything repeated."
"Immigration at Liszt Ferenc Airport speaks formal fast Hungarian. I had Captio AI open and every question appeared on screen. I answered confidently — no hesitation, no asking for pen and paper."
"The guide at Eger Castle spoke fast Hungarian mixed with some English for the foreign visitors. Captio AI captioned both. I followed the full Ottoman siege history of the castle — dates, battle details, the legends. Every word."
"Platform announcements at Keleti come in fast Hungarian with a bad echo. I held Captio AI toward the PA speaker and the platform number appeared on screen. I've stopped running between tracks to check the departure board."
"The hotel receptionist in Pécs spoke fast southern Hungarian — different pace from Budapest. Captio AI captioned the check-in details and breakfast schedule accurately. I didn't need to write anything or ask for anything repeated."
"Immigration at Liszt Ferenc Airport speaks formal fast Hungarian. I had Captio AI open and every question appeared on screen. I answered confidently — no hesitation, no asking for pen and paper."
"The guide at Eger Castle spoke fast Hungarian mixed with some English for the foreign visitors. Captio AI captioned both. I followed the full Ottoman siege history of the castle — dates, battle details, the legends. Every word."
Download for free
Download on theApp StoreFrequently asked questions
Navigate confidently in Hungarian.
Captio AI is free to start
coming soon
Download for free
Download on theApp Store