Catalan live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Catalan tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Catalan 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 Catalan moves fast — a TV3 news bulletin, a Barça match on Esport3, a Sant Jordi broadcast. Point Captio AI at the screen and read the commentary and reporting in real time as it happens.
Streaming catalogues carry Catalan dubs and originals, but captioning for the deaf is patchy. Captio AI captions a series or film from the audio, so you follow the dialogue whether or not the platform provides Catalan subtitles.
Catalan YouTube and social clips — creators from Barcelona, Girona, and Valencia — rarely carry reliable captions. Point Captio AI at the speaker and read every word.
Foreign films and series reach Catalan screens dubbed or subtitled in Spanish. Captio AI captions the Catalan audio track in real time, so you are not left choosing between a soundtrack you cannot hear and subtitles in another language.
In a Barcelona cinema showing a Catalan film, hold your phone toward the audio and read the dialogue as the scene plays.
Catalan podcasts and radio — from news analysis to culture shows — arrive as audio only. Upload a recording to Captio AI and read the full conversation as text.
Most accurate and fastest models
word accuracy
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real-time captions
first word appears as you speak
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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 Catalan is hard to understand
Neutral vowel
- Unstressed vowels collapse into a schwa
- Eastern Catalan, the variety spoken around Barcelona and on TV3, reduces most unstressed vowels to a neutral schwa. On screen the mouth barely moves for these vowels, so a deaf viewer loses the word endings that mark plurals, tense, and gender in a fast line of dialogue.
East–west split
- Barcelona and Valencia sound different
- Eastern Catalan reduces vowels while Western Catalan and Valencian keep them fully pronounced, and the two use different verb endings. A deaf viewer calibrated to a Barcelona news anchor meets a different vowel system in a Valencian drama or a Lleida interview.
Final consonants
- Word endings devoice and cluster
- Catalan devoices final consonants and stacks dense clusters at the ends of words. These fall at the edge of the mouth where lip-reading is weakest, so a deaf viewer cannot tell one clipped ending from another when a presenter speaks quickly.
Fast delivery
- Newsreaders and hosts run words together
- In a live bulletin or a chat show the delivery is fast and the schwas and final consonants blur into each other. On screen there is no chance to ask a presenter to slow down, so a deaf viewer following the lips alone loses the thread within a sentence.
Catalan–Spanish code-switching
- Guests slip between Catalan and Spanish
- In interviews and reality formats speakers move between Catalan and Spanish mid-conversation. The switch is instant and invisible on the lips, so a deaf viewer cannot tell which language a guest has just dropped into.
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Around one in ten people in Spain live with hearing loss — roughly five million people — according to the EuroTrak survey, and the national disability survey counted over a million people with a hearing disability. Across Catalonia's population of some 7.7 million, that translates into hundreds of thousands of viewers who depend on what appears on screen rather than on what they can hear.
Catalan television was a pioneer for these viewers: TV3 broadcast the first subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing audiences in Spain in 1990, months ahead of the state broadcaster, and developed its own real-time subtitling system. But provision is uneven across the wider Catalan-language landscape. On streaming platforms, only around one in ten titles offers Catalan audio or subtitles at all, and captioning built specifically for deaf viewers is rarer still.
The result is a viewer who can follow a well-captioned public bulletin one moment and hit a Catalan-language series with no deaf-accessible captions the next — or a foreign film offered only with Spanish subtitles. Captio AI closes that gap: point the phone at any screen — a TV3 news bulletin, a streaming drama, a Barça match — and read Catalan 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
"TV3 captions its news but the schwas blur on the lips and the streaming series have nothing in Catalan. Captio AI captions the audio in real time, on any channel. I finally follow the whole evening."
"A Valencian series sounds different from a Barcelona one and I lose the vowels. Captio AI captions the dialogue whatever the variety. I stopped guessing at the plot."
"Live match commentary runs too fast to lip-read and the captions lag. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words line up with the play."
"Guests jump between Catalan and Spanish and I cannot tell which one I am missing. Captio AI captions both as they speak. It covers exactly what the platforms leave out."
"TV3 captions its news but the schwas blur on the lips and the streaming series have nothing in Catalan. Captio AI captions the audio in real time, on any channel. I finally follow the whole evening."
"A Valencian series sounds different from a Barcelona one and I lose the vowels. Captio AI captions the dialogue whatever the variety. I stopped guessing at the plot."
"Live match commentary runs too fast to lip-read and the captions lag. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words line up with the play."
"Guests jump between Catalan and Spanish and I cannot tell which one I am missing. Captio AI captions both as they speak. It covers exactly what the platforms leave out."
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Watch anything in Catalan.
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