Finnish live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Finnish tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Finnish 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.
Yle and MTV3 run live news that pre-generated subtitles can lag behind. Point Captio AI at your TV and read the Finnish as it is spoken, not several seconds behind the anchor.
Yle Areena, MTV Katsomo, and Netflix vary in subtitle quality — commercial channels carry far less deaf subtitling than Yle. Captio AI works as a consistent fallback for any Finnish show or film.
YouTube auto-captions for Finnish are often inaccurate and most social video has none. Point Captio AI at your phone and read accurate Finnish captions for any clip.
A foreign film, a foreign documentary, a non-Finnish channel. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so anything becomes watchable in Finnish as it plays.
Not every cinema showing has open captions. Hold Captio AI near the audio and read real-time Finnish captions of the dialogue discreetly from your seat.
Most Finnish 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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word accuracy
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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 Finnish is hard to understand
Long vowels and gemination
- Length that changes the word — in vowels and consonants
- Finnish contrasts short and long sounds for both vowels and consonants — 'tuli', 'tuuli', and 'tulli' are three different words. These are timing distinctions, not lip shapes, so on screen a deaf viewer cannot see which of several similar-looking terms was said.
Consonant gradation
- The same root's consonants change between forms
- Finnish consonants alternate between a strong and a weak grade as a word inflects — p, t, k weaken or double depending on the ending. A deaf viewer tracking a word sees its consonants change shape from one form to the next, so the same root looks different through a scene.
Vowel harmony
- Suffix vowels that shift to match the root
- Finnish suffixes harmonise their vowels with the root. These unstressed suffix vowels carry grammar at the ends of long words, and in fast dialogue they weaken and blur, exactly where a deaf viewer needs them to follow the sentence.
Agglutination and case
- Long words with meaning stacked on the end
- Finnish glues many suffixes onto a root and marks around fifteen cases, so where you are going, coming from, or staying is encoded in endings at the far end of a long word. In fast dialogue those endings clip, so the exact information a deaf viewer needs fades on screen.
No cognate footholds
- A language unrelated to those around it
- Finnish is a Uralic language, unrelated to the Indo-European languages around it, so its words share no roots a viewer could guess from. Where a lip-reader might fill a gap in a familiar-looking word, Finnish offers no such foothold — every missed sound is a word that cannot be reconstructed.
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Download on theApp StoreFinnish public TV subtitles most content — commercial channels, far less
Hearing loss is common in Finland and rises steeply with age — among older adults roughly 43% report difficulty following a conversation between several people, against a European backdrop in which about one in five people has some hearing loss. Public broadcasting leads: Yle produces dedicated subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing and has a legal obligation to subtitle a majority of its Finnish- and Swedish-language programming, which in practice it exceeds.
But the requirement on commercial channels is far lower — a fraction of Yle's obligation — so a deaf viewer who steps outside Yle quickly meets content with little or no deaf subtitling. Live programming can lag, streaming and social video vary, and the length contrasts, consonant gradation, and unrelated word roots that make Finnish so 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 Yle bulletin, a commercial-channel drama, a YouTube clip — and read Finnish 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.
Private by default
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People love Captio AI
"Yle subtitles well but the commercial channels and streaming barely do. Captio AI captions the dialogue from the audio, in real time. It covers everything outside the public broadcaster."
"Finnish words are long and the length distinctions decide the word, none of which I can see. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio. I follow the whole show now."
"Live news subtitles lag and consonant gradation changes the same word's consonants between forms. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words finally line up with the picture."
"Finnish YouTube auto-captions mangle the long words. Captio AI captions any clip accurately from the audio. It covers exactly the content the platforms do not."
"Yle subtitles well but the commercial channels and streaming barely do. Captio AI captions the dialogue from the audio, in real time. It covers everything outside the public broadcaster."
"Finnish words are long and the length distinctions decide the word, none of which I can see. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio. I follow the whole show now."
"Live news subtitles lag and consonant gradation changes the same word's consonants between forms. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words finally line up with the picture."
"Finnish YouTube auto-captions mangle the long words. Captio AI captions any clip accurately from the audio. It covers exactly the content the platforms do not."
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