Galician live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Galician tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Galician 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 Galician moves fast — a TVG news bulletin, a Celta match, a Rías Baixas festival broadcast. Point Captio AI at the screen and read the commentary and reporting in real time as it happens.
Streaming catalogues carry little Galician content and rarely caption it for the deaf. Captio AI captions a series or film from the audio, so you follow the dialogue whether or not the platform provides Galician subtitles.
Galician YouTube and social clips — creators from Santiago, A Coruña, and Vigo — rarely carry reliable captions. Point Captio AI at the speaker and read every word.
Foreign films reach Galician screens dubbed or subtitled in Spanish. Captio AI captions the Galician audio track in real time, so you are not left choosing between a soundtrack you cannot hear and subtitles in another language.
In a Santiago cinema showing a Galician film, hold your phone toward the audio and read the dialogue as the scene plays.
Galician podcasts and radio — news, culture, traditional 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 Galician is hard to understand
Open and close vowels
- Seven vowels the lips cannot separate
- Galician distinguishes open and close mid vowels — the difference between a close and an open 'e' or 'o' can change a word. The distinction is made in the voice with almost no change in lip shape, so a deaf viewer watching a presenter cannot see which of the seven vowels was spoken.
Gheada
- The 'g' that turns into a throaty sound
- In much of Galicia the sound written 'g' is pronounced as a throaty fricative — the feature known as gheada. It is produced deep in the throat, invisible from the front, so a deaf viewer following a rural or informal speaker on screen gets no lip cue for a very common consonant.
Nasal resonance
- Nasal vowels carried in the voice
- Galician has nasal resonance and nasal vowel sequences that shape the ends of many words. Nasality is a matter of airflow through the nose, not lip position, so a deaf viewer cannot see it and loses distinctions that ride on it in fast dialogue.
Galician–Spanish mixing
- Speakers slide between Galician and Spanish
- Many speakers move fluidly between Galician and Spanish — and between more and less standardised Galician — within a single conversation on air. The switch is instant and invisible on the lips, so a deaf viewer cannot tell which variety a guest has just moved into.
Uneven standard
- On-screen Galician varies in quality
- Galician on television ranges from careful standard on the news to loose, Spanish-influenced speech elsewhere, and the sound of a word shifts with it. A deaf viewer calibrated to the news anchor meets a different phonetic target in an informal programme.
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Around one in ten people in Spain live with hearing loss — roughly five million people according to EuroTrak — and the national disability survey counted over a million with a hearing disability. In Galicia, a region of some 2.7 million with one of Spain's oldest populations, that share of viewers who depend on the screen rather than the sound is proportionally large and growing.
For a minoritised language the media-access gap runs deeper. Televisión de Galicia offers deaf subtitling only sporadically: its second channel carries subtitled weekday news, but weekend bulletins have gone without, and much of the schedule has no deaf-accessible captions at all. Researchers at the University of Vigo and the GALMA observatory have had to build live-subtitling speech technology for Galician largely from scratch, because the tools that exist for major languages simply were not made for it.
The result is a Galician viewer whose own language is the least captioned option on the screen — pushed toward Spanish subtitles on foreign content and left with nothing on much Galician programming. Captio AI closes that gap: point the phone at any screen — a TVG news bulletin, a streaming series, a Celta match — and read Galician 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
"TVG subtitles the weekday news and little else in Galician. Captio AI captions the audio in real time, on any programme. I stopped switching to Spanish just to read along."
"Foreign films only offer Spanish subtitles and the Galician track has none. Captio AI captions the Galician audio directly. I watch in my own language now."
"Live commentary runs fast and the open and close vowels give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words match the play."
"Speakers slide between Galician and Spanish and the gheada hides the consonants. Captio AI captions both from the audio. It covers exactly what the channels leave out."
"TVG subtitles the weekday news and little else in Galician. Captio AI captions the audio in real time, on any programme. I stopped switching to Spanish just to read along."
"Foreign films only offer Spanish subtitles and the Galician track has none. Captio AI captions the Galician audio directly. I watch in my own language now."
"Live commentary runs fast and the open and close vowels give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words match the play."
"Speakers slide between Galician and Spanish and the gheada hides the consonants. Captio AI captions both from the audio. It covers exactly what the channels leave out."
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