Croatian live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Croatian tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Croatian 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.
HRT and Nova TV run live news that pre-generated captions lag behind. Point Captio AI at your TV and read the Croatian as it is spoken, not several seconds behind the anchor.
HRTi and other platforms vary in subtitle quality and availability. Captio AI works as a consistent fallback for any Croatian show or film that ships with wrong, delayed, or missing captions.
YouTube auto-captions for Croatian are often inaccurate and most social video has none. Point Captio AI at your phone and read accurate Croatian captions for any clip.
A foreign film, a foreign documentary, a non-Croatian channel. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so anything becomes watchable in Croatian as it plays.
Not every cinema showing is captioned. Hold Captio AI near the audio and read real-time Croatian captions of the dialogue discreetly from your seat.
Most Croatian 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 Croatian is hard to understand
Pitch accent
- Rising and falling tones the screen cannot show
- Standard Croatian has a pitch-accent system with rising and falling tones and distinctive vowel length on stressed syllables. These separate words but ride entirely on pitch and duration, with no lip cue. On a drama or a news read a deaf viewer sees identical mouths for words the accent keeps apart.
Ijekavian reflexes
- The 'ije' and 'je' sequences that reshape words
- Standard Croatian is Ijekavian, where the old jat vowel surfaces as ije or je — reshaping common words into longer diphthongal sequences. On screen a deaf viewer finds familiar terms carry unfamiliar vowel shapes.
Three dialect groups
- Shtokavian, Kajkavian, and Chakavian differ sharply
- Croatian spans three dialect groups — Shtokavian, Kajkavian, and Chakavian — that differ so much they can challenge mutual understanding. A show with a Zagreb speaker and a Dalmatian character presents a deaf viewer with different phonologies to track.
Affricates and clusters
- č and ć, dž and đ, plus dense clusters
- Croatian contrasts the affricate pairs č/ć and dž/đ, which look nearly identical on the lips, and permits demanding consonant clusters. On screen these fine distinctions and compressed clusters leave a deaf viewer with little visual footing.
Croatian–English code-switching
- English dropped into Croatian content
- Croatian TV, film, and online content drop English terms into Croatian sentences. A deaf viewer meets English phonology on the key word, then returns to Croatian, with no visual warning and no lip to read after a cut.
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In the 2011 census Croatia recorded over 13,000 people with impaired hearing, and the country's association of the deaf and hard of hearing has around 9,000 members, against a European backdrop in which about one in five people has some hearing loss. The public broadcaster HRT offers subtitles for deaf viewers on part of its output — marked with a T on the schedule and available via Teletext page 888 — and carries Croatian Sign Language on some programmes.
But coverage is narrow. According to the Croatian Deaf Association, only HRT subtitles the news; other broadcasters largely do not. Deaf-specific subtitling is concentrated on informative programmes, live content can lag, and commercial, streaming, and social content vary widely. The pitch accents and close affricates that make Croatian hard to lip-read leave a deaf viewer stranded wherever a caption is missing.
Captio AI does not depend on the broadcaster or the platform. Point the phone at any screen — a live Nova TV bulletin, a Croatian drama, a YouTube clip — and read Croatian captions in real time from the audio, 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
"Only HRT captions the news — the other channels barely caption anything for us. Captio AI captions the dialogue from the audio, in real time. It finally covers everything else."
"The pitch accents and the close affricates give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio. I follow the whole show now instead of guessing."
"Zagreb and Dalmatian speakers use very different dialects and captions are patchy outside HRT. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio, whatever the accent. The words finally line up."
"Croatian YouTube mixes in English and the auto-captions are unreliable. Captio AI captions any clip accurately from the audio. It covers exactly the content the platforms do not."
"Only HRT captions the news — the other channels barely caption anything for us. Captio AI captions the dialogue from the audio, in real time. It finally covers everything else."
"The pitch accents and the close affricates give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio. I follow the whole show now instead of guessing."
"Zagreb and Dalmatian speakers use very different dialects and captions are patchy outside HRT. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio, whatever the accent. The words finally line up."
"Croatian YouTube mixes in English and the auto-captions are unreliable. Captio AI captions any clip accurately from the audio. It covers exactly the content the platforms do not."
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