Czech live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Czech tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Czech 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.
Czech Television and the commercial channels run live news that pre-generated subtitles can lag behind. Point Captio AI at your TV and read the Czech as it is spoken, not several seconds behind the anchor.
iVysílání, Voyo, and Netflix vary in subtitle quality and availability. Captio AI works as a consistent fallback for any Czech show or film that ships with wrong, delayed, or missing captions.
YouTube auto-captions for Czech are often inaccurate and most social video has none. Point Captio AI at your phone and read accurate Czech captions for any clip.
A foreign film, a foreign documentary, a non-Czech channel — much of it dubbed into Czech. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so anything becomes watchable as it plays.
Not every cinema showing has open captions. Hold Captio AI near the audio and read real-time Czech captions of the dialogue discreetly from your seat.
Most Czech 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 Czech is hard to understand
Consonant clusters
- Words that pile up consonants, some with no vowel
- Czech allows dense consonant clusters and has a syllabic r and l — words like 'prst' or 'vlk' built around consonants with no vowel. On screen these clusters give a lip-reader almost no visual seams, so a deaf viewer cannot break a word into readable pieces.
The ř sound
- A rare trilled sound unique to Czech
- Czech has the ř — a raised alveolar trill made by combining a rolled r with a fricative, a sound found almost nowhere else. It produces no distinctive lip shape, so a deaf viewer cannot see it, yet it appears in common words and names on screen.
Vowel length
- Long and short vowels that change the word
- Czech vowel length is phonemic — a long vowel makes a different word from a short one. This is a timing distinction, not a lip shape, so on screen a deaf viewer cannot see which of two terms was said.
Soft consonants
- Palatalized ď, ť, and ň with barely visible cues
- Czech contrasts plain and soft (palatalized) consonants — ď, ť, ň — where the softening is a tongue-body gesture with almost no visible cue. A deaf viewer sees the same mouth for a plain and a soft consonant that make different words.
Dubbing and mismatched lips
- Foreign content dubbed into Czech never matches the mouth
- The Czech Republic dubs most foreign film and TV into Czech, so the words a viewer hears do not match the lips on screen. For a deaf viewer relying on lip-reading, dubbed content is impossible — the mouth is speaking a different language from the soundtrack.
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Download on theApp StoreCzech public TV subtitles most content — but dubs almost everything foreign
Around 1.3 million people in the Czech Republic live with some form of disability, and recent figures record on the order of 167,000 people with hearing impairment, against a European backdrop in which about one in five people has some hearing loss. Public broadcasting sets a baseline: Czech Television is required to subtitle at least 70% of its programmes and provide sign language on a small share.
But the gaps are real. Commercial channels and streaming services carry less deaf-specific subtitling than the public broadcaster; live programming can lag; social and short-video content is largely uncaptioned. Above all, the Czech Republic dubs most foreign film and television into Czech — so a deaf viewer relying on lip-reading gets a mouth that never matches the soundtrack, with no accessible caption on much of it.
Captio AI does not depend on the broadcaster or the platform. Point the phone at any screen — a live Czech Television bulletin, a dubbed foreign series, a YouTube clip — and read Czech 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
"Foreign films are dubbed into Czech, so the lips never match the sound. Captio AI captions the Czech soundtrack from the audio. For the first time I can watch a dubbed film and follow it."
"Czech Television captions well but the commercial channels and streaming barely do, and the clusters give me no seams to lip-read. Captio AI captions the dialogue from the audio. I follow everything now."
"Live news subtitles lag and the ř and soft consonants are invisible. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words finally line up with the picture."
"Czech YouTube auto-captions mangle the clusters. Captio AI captions any clip accurately from the audio. It covers exactly the content the platforms do not."
"Foreign films are dubbed into Czech, so the lips never match the sound. Captio AI captions the Czech soundtrack from the audio. For the first time I can watch a dubbed film and follow it."
"Czech Television captions well but the commercial channels and streaming barely do, and the clusters give me no seams to lip-read. Captio AI captions the dialogue from the audio. I follow everything now."
"Live news subtitles lag and the ř and soft consonants are invisible. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words finally line up with the picture."
"Czech YouTube auto-captions mangle the clusters. Captio AI captions any clip accurately from the audio. It covers exactly the content the platforms do not."
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