Bosnian live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Bosnian tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Bosnian 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.
Live TV in Bosnian moves fast — a BHRT or FTV news bulletin, a football match, a holiday broadcast. Point Captio AI at the screen and read the commentary and reporting in real time as it happens.
Streaming catalogues and regional channels carry Bosnian content, but deaf-accessible captions are rare. Captio AI captions a series or film from the audio, so you follow the dialogue whether or not the platform provides subtitles.
Bosnian YouTube and social clips — creators from Sarajevo, Tuzla, and Mostar — rarely carry reliable captions. Point Captio AI at the speaker and read every word.
Foreign films and series reach Bosnian screens subtitled, but the subtitles are for translation, not for deaf access. Captio AI captions the audio in real time, so you can follow along regardless.
In a Sarajevo cinema showing a regional film, hold your phone toward the audio and read the dialogue as the scene plays.
Bosnian podcasts and radio — news, culture, sevdah and music talk — arrive as audio only. Upload a recording to Captio AI and read the full conversation as text.
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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 Bosnian is hard to understand
Pitch accent
- Words told apart by tone, not by the lips
- Bosnian has a pitch-accent system in which stressed syllables carry rising or falling tones and vowels differ in length. These distinctions live entirely in the voice, so a deaf viewer watching a news anchor or a drama gets no visual cue for the accent that separates one word from another.
Ijekavian vowels
- The 'ije' reflex stretches the words
- Bosnian uses the Ijekavian reflex, where an old vowel becomes 'ije' or 'je' — mlijeko, vrijeme. These extra vowel sequences ride on the voice and blur on the lips at speed, so a deaf viewer cannot see the difference between an Ijekavian form and its shorter counterpart in a fast line.
Turkish loanwords
- A distinctive loan vocabulary
- Bosnian carries a large layer of Turkish and Arabic loanwords in everyday and cultural speech that other regional varieties use less. On screen these words appear without warning and often cannot be guessed from context, leaving a deaf viewer stranded on vocabulary the lips alone will not reveal.
Fast casual speech
- Presenters and characters clip their words
- In talk shows and dramas the delivery is fast and unstressed syllables drop out. With the pitch accent giving nothing on the mouth and the vowels reducing, a deaf viewer following the lips loses whole phrases in a rapid exchange.
Two scripts
- Latin and Cyrillic on screen
- Bosnian is written in both Latin and Cyrillic, and on-screen text — captions, chyrons, subtitles — can appear in either. A deaf viewer who relies on reading the screen has to switch between two alphabets depending on the channel and programme.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina recognised its Deaf community's language rights in law in 2009, giving deaf people the same rights to sign language that hearing people have to spoken language and requiring government television to be interpreted into sign language. Behind that legal milestone is a community that studies still struggle to count precisely — one survey of over a thousand deaf and hard of hearing people found many registered with employment offices or receiving social-care support, a sign of how closely hearing loss tracks with economic exclusion in the country.
The public broadcaster, BHRT, carries sign-language interpretation on some official programming under that legal duty. But subtitling built specifically for deaf viewers is scarce across Bosnian television, and the foreign films and series that fill the schedules arrive with translation subtitles that were never designed for deaf access — no speaker labels, no sound cues, and nothing at all on live or unscripted content.
The effect is a viewer covered for a signed official broadcast and left out of almost everything else on the screen. Captio AI closes that gap: point the phone at any screen — a BHRT bulletin, a streaming drama, a subtitled foreign film — and read Bosnian captions in real time from the audio, whatever the channel and whether or not the content was 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.
Private by default
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People love Captio AI
"Official broadcasts get a signer but the dramas and streaming have nothing for us. Captio AI captions the audio in real time, on any channel. I follow the whole evening now."
"Foreign series come with translation subtitles that skip the sound cues and never label who speaks. Captio AI captions the audio directly. I finally know what is happening off-screen."
"Live commentary runs fast and the pitch accents give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words match the match."
"Captions on screen flip between Latin and Cyrillic and half the time there are none. Captio AI captions everything from the audio in clear text. It covers what the channels leave out."
"Official broadcasts get a signer but the dramas and streaming have nothing for us. Captio AI captions the audio in real time, on any channel. I follow the whole evening now."
"Foreign series come with translation subtitles that skip the sound cues and never label who speaks. Captio AI captions the audio directly. I finally know what is happening off-screen."
"Live commentary runs fast and the pitch accents give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words match the match."
"Captions on screen flip between Latin and Cyrillic and half the time there are none. Captio AI captions everything from the audio in clear text. It covers what the channels leave out."
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