Arabic live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Arabic tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Arabic speakers.
Captions anything playing in real time
- Point the phone toward the speaker and read along
- Works on any TV, laptop, tablet, or phone
- No subtitle file required — captions from the audio directly
- Faster than pre-generated subtitles for live content
Watch content in any language
- Foreign films, foreign news, foreign YouTube — all translated in real time
- They speak their language — you read in yours
- 60+ languages, no setup
- Works as content plays
Full transcript of any recording
- Upload a recording and get the complete written transcript
- For lectures, podcasts, talks, or any long-form content
- Searchable and copyable
- Any language, any format
Key points from any content
- Main ideas and takeaways from any transcript
- Useful for news, documentaries, and long-form content
- 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.
Al Jazeera and other broadcasters run live news that pre-generated captions lag behind. Point Captio AI at your TV and read the Arabic as it is spoken, not several seconds behind the anchor.
Shahid, OSN, and other platforms vary in subtitle quality and availability. Captio AI works as a consistent fallback for any Arabic drama or film that ships with wrong, delayed, or missing captions.
YouTube auto-captions for Arabic are often inaccurate and most social video has none. Point Captio AI at your phone and read accurate Arabic captions for any clip.
A foreign film, a foreign documentary, a non-Arabic channel. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so anything becomes watchable in Arabic as it plays.
Not every cinema showing is captioned. Hold Captio AI near the audio and read real-time Arabic captions of the dialogue discreetly from your seat.
Most Arabic podcasts have no transcript. Hold Captio AI near the audio or upload a recording, and read the whole episode in writing.
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Built for the content that subtitles fail
Captions any content in real time
Point the phone toward any speaker — TV, laptop, tablet, cinema screen. Captio AI captions whatever is playing, regardless of whether that platform provides subtitles.
Faster than built-in subtitles for live content
Pre-generated subtitles lag behind live TV by several seconds. Captio AI captions in real time — so you read what is being said as it is being said.
Works on any screen or device
No integration required. Point the phone toward the audio source — the same approach works for a large TV, a laptop screen, a cinema, or a phone held at arm's length.
Any language, translated in real time
For foreign-language content, switch to Live Translator. It translates as content plays — so a French film, a German documentary, or a Japanese series all become watchable.
No subtitle file needed
Captio AI captions from the audio directly. No subtitle file, no platform support, no creator requirement. If audio plays, Captio AI can caption it.
More accurate than auto-generated captions
The industry average for AI-generated subtitles is a 10–15% word error rate — roughly 1 in 10 words wrong (3Play Media). Captio AI is built for accuracy in real-world audio conditions.
Why Arabic is hard to understand
Diglossia on screen
- Formal MSA in the news, dialect in the drama
- Arabic news and formal programming use Modern Standard Arabic, while dramas, comedy, and talk shows use regional dialect — Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine. A deaf viewer must follow two very different varieties across a single evening's viewing, and neither is easy to read on a small screen.
Pharyngeal consonants
- Sounds made deep in the throat, invisible on the lips
- Arabic ħ (ح) and ʕ (ع) are produced deep in the throat and give almost no lip cue. On a TV drama or a news read, a deaf viewer sees nothing of these consonants, yet they distinguish common words that carry the meaning of a scene.
Emphatic consonants
- Pharyngealised pairs that look identical
- Arabic contrasts plain and emphatic consonants — s/sˤ, d/dˤ, t/tˤ — and the difference is a tongue-root gesture invisible at the lips. Two words that differ only in emphasis look the same on a presenter's mouth, so a technical or plot-critical distinction is lost on screen.
Dialect diversity across channels
- Four spoken Arabics stream side by side
- Pan-Arab television and streaming put Gulf, Egyptian, Levantine, and Maghrebi content on the same platform. These varieties differ enough that even fluent speakers struggle across them, so a deaf viewer faces a new lip-reading challenge with every show.
Dubbing and mismatched lips
- Dubbed drama and foreign content the mouth does not match
- Foreign series dubbed into Arabic, and Turkish dramas dubbed into Levantine or MSA, leave the words a viewer hears out of sync with the lips on screen. For a deaf viewer relying on lip-reading, dubbed content is impossible to follow from the face alone.
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Download on theApp StoreArabic subtitling for deaf viewers is still an underdeveloped field
Across the Arab world, around 90% of people with disabling hearing loss live in low- and middle-income countries, and audiological support is concentrated in capital cities. Media accessibility lags with it: researchers describe subtitling for deaf and hard of hearing viewers in the Arab world as an underdeveloped field, with the volume of dedicated deaf-and-hard-of-hearing subtitling well behind other regions.
The problem is not only volume but consistency. Unlike English, Arabic subtitling for deaf viewers lacks agreed norms for how captions are constructed and formatted, producing gaps and uneven information on screen — and much of what is captioned uses formal Modern Standard Arabic even when the dialogue is in dialect. Streaming platforms have begun subtitling some Arabic films, but live news, dialect drama, dubbed foreign series, and social video remain largely inaccessible to a deaf viewer.
Captio AI does not depend on the broadcaster or the platform. Point the phone at any screen — a live Al Jazeera bulletin, a Gulf drama, a dubbed Turkish series — and read Arabic captions in real time, in the dialect actually being spoken, whether or not that content was ever captioned.
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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.
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People love Captio AI
"Gulf dramas rarely have captions for us, and the dialect is nothing like the MSA on the news. Captio AI captions the dialect actually being spoken, from the audio. I finally follow the shows everyone else is talking about."
"Dubbed Turkish series are impossible to lip-read — the mouth is Turkish, the sound is Arabic. Captio AI captions the Arabic soundtrack. For the first time I can watch the dubbed dramas with my family and keep up."
"Al Jazeera live news has the throat sounds I cannot see and no captions that match the picture. Captio AI captions the MSA in real time. I read the news as it is read, not a summary later."
"Levantine YouTube has no captions and mixes in French. Captio AI captions all of it accurately from the audio. It covers exactly the content the platforms never do."
"Gulf dramas rarely have captions for us, and the dialect is nothing like the MSA on the news. Captio AI captions the dialect actually being spoken, from the audio. I finally follow the shows everyone else is talking about."
"Dubbed Turkish series are impossible to lip-read — the mouth is Turkish, the sound is Arabic. Captio AI captions the Arabic soundtrack. For the first time I can watch the dubbed dramas with my family and keep up."
"Al Jazeera live news has the throat sounds I cannot see and no captions that match the picture. Captio AI captions the MSA in real time. I read the news as it is read, not a summary later."
"Levantine YouTube has no captions and mixes in French. Captio AI captions all of it accurately from the audio. It covers exactly the content the platforms never do."
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