Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Gujarati live captions and productivity tool for tv & media

For deaf and hard of hearing people.

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Use Cases

Every situation covered

Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.

📺Live TV — news, sport, events

Colors Gujarati and Gujarati news channels run live bulletins that pre-generated captions cannot keep up with — and live news is exempt from India's captioning rules. Point Captio AI at your TV and read the Gujarati as it is spoken.

🎬Streaming content

ShemarooMe Gujarati and other platforms vary in subtitle quality and availability. Captio AI works as a consistent fallback for any Gujarati show or film that ships with wrong, delayed, or missing captions.

📱YouTube and social media

YouTube auto-captions for Gujarati are often inaccurate and most social video has none. Point Captio AI at your phone and read accurate Gujarati captions for any clip.

🌍Foreign-language content

A foreign film, a foreign documentary, a non-Gujarati channel. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so anything becomes watchable in Gujarati as it plays.

🎭Cinema

Not every cinema showing is captioned. Hold Captio AI near the audio and read real-time Gujarati captions of the dialogue discreetly from your seat.

🎧Podcasts and audio content

Most Gujarati podcasts have no transcript. Hold Captio AI near the audio or upload a recording, and read the whole episode in writing.

Performance

Most accurate and fastest models

Gujarati
92.2%

word accuracy

independent benchmark, 2025

< 200ms
you speak
captions

real-time captions

first word appears as you speak

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Captio AI in everyday use
Why Captio AI

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.

Gujarati

Why Gujarati is hard to understand

Breathy vowels

  • Murmured vowels that the screen cannot reveal
  • Gujarati is unusual in contrasting murmured (breathy) and clear vowels — a difference in voice quality made at the vocal folds, not on the lips. Two words can differ only in this breathiness, so on a serial or a news read a deaf viewer sees the same mouth for terms that mean different things.

Retroflex series

  • Tongue-curl sounds invisible on screen
  • Gujarati has a full retroflex series made with the tongue curled back toward the palate, giving no lip cue. On screen a deaf viewer sees the same shape for a dental and a retroflex consonant, two different sounds that change a word in a scene.

Aspiration contrasts

  • A puff of air that decides the word
  • Gujarati contrasts aspirated and unaspirated stops, and the aspiration is a breath with no visible lip movement. In a fast serial the distinction that separates two terms is entirely invisible to a viewer watching a face.

Regional varieties on screen

  • Surti, Kathiawadi, and standard Gujarati differ
  • Gujarati content features standard Amdavadi Gujarati, the Surti of Surat, and Kathiawadi from Saurashtra, which differ in vowels, rhythm, and murmur. A deaf viewer calibrated to one meets different lip shapes from one show or character to the next.

Gujarati–English code-switching

  • English dropped into Gujarati content
  • Gujarati serials, films, and business content mix English terms into Gujarati constantly. A deaf viewer must switch to English phonology on the key words, then back to Gujarati, with no visual warning and no lip to read after a cut.

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The Challenge

India mandates some captions — but not for Gujarati's live TV and serials

India carries one of the world's largest hearing loss burdens: the World Health Organization estimates 63 million people in India have significant auditory loss, and Gujarat, one of India's most populous and industrialised states, is home to a large share. Following the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act of 2016, the government has moved to require every TV channel to run at least one programme a week with subtitles or captioning.

But the rules leave out most of what a Gujarati viewer actually watches. Live news, debates, reality shows, and award shows are explicitly exempted, and the baseline — one captioned programme a week — is a fraction of a channel's output. The daily serials on Colors Gujarati, Gujarati theatre and cinema, and the constant Gujarati–English mixing of urban and business content are largely uncaptioned or inconsistently so.

Captio AI does not depend on the broadcaster or the platform. Point the phone at any screen — a live Gujarati news bulletin, a Colors Gujarati serial, a Gujarati film — and read Gujarati captions in real time, whether or not that content was ever captioned.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

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.

100% PRIVATE

Private by default

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"Gujarati serials mix in English and rarely have good captions, and the breathy vowels are invisible on the lips. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio. I follow the whole story now."

Jayesh P. 🇮🇳
jayesh.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Ahmedabad — serial viewer

"Live Gujarati news is exempt from captioning and the anchor reads fast. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. I finally follow the news as it happens."

Nikita S. 🇮🇳
nikita.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Vadodara — live news viewer

"Surti Gujarati is different from the standard and the YouTube auto-captions are a mess. Captio AI captions any clip accurately from the audio. It covers exactly what the platforms do not."

Bhavesh M. 🇮🇳
bhavesh.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Surat — YouTube viewer

"Gujarati films rarely have captioned showings. I hold Captio AI on my knee and read the dialogue from my seat. I stopped waiting for a subtitled home release to watch a film."

Hetal D. 🇮🇳
hetal.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ahmedabad — cinema-goer

"Gujarati serials mix in English and rarely have good captions, and the breathy vowels are invisible on the lips. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio. I follow the whole story now."

Jayesh P. 🇮🇳
jayesh.p***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Ahmedabad — serial viewer

"Live Gujarati news is exempt from captioning and the anchor reads fast. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. I finally follow the news as it happens."

Nikita S. 🇮🇳
nikita.s***@gmail.com
Deaf, Vadodara — live news viewer

"Surti Gujarati is different from the standard and the YouTube auto-captions are a mess. Captio AI captions any clip accurately from the audio. It covers exactly what the platforms do not."

Bhavesh M. 🇮🇳
bhavesh.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Surat — YouTube viewer

"Gujarati films rarely have captioned showings. I hold Captio AI on my knee and read the dialogue from my seat. I stopped waiting for a subtitled home release to watch a film."

Hetal D. 🇮🇳
hetal.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Ahmedabad — cinema-goer

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Watch anything in Gujarati.

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