Hebrew live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Hebrew tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Hebrew 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.
Kan, Keshet 12, and Reshet 13 run live news that pre-generated captions can lag behind. Point Captio AI at your TV and read the Hebrew as it is spoken, not several seconds behind the anchor.
Streaming platforms and channel apps vary in subtitle quality and availability. Captio AI works as a consistent fallback for any Hebrew show or film that ships with wrong, delayed, or missing captions.
YouTube auto-captions for Hebrew are often inaccurate and most social video has none. Point Captio AI at your phone and read accurate Hebrew captions for any clip.
A foreign film, a foreign documentary, a non-Hebrew channel. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so anything becomes watchable in Hebrew as it plays.
Not every cinema showing is captioned. Hold Captio AI near the audio and read real-time Hebrew captions of the dialogue discreetly from your seat.
Most Hebrew 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 Hebrew is hard to understand
Guttural consonants
- Sounds made in the throat, invisible on screen
- Hebrew has guttural consonants — het (ח) and ayin (ע), along with a glottal sound — produced in the throat with no lip movement. On a TV drama or a news read a deaf viewer sees nothing of these sounds, and where ayin is reduced to a catch in the voice, whole word distinctions disappear.
Uvular resh
- The r sound made at the back of the mouth
- Modern Hebrew's resh (ר) is a uvular sound, produced far back in the mouth with no visible lip cue. It is extremely common, so on screen a deaf viewer constantly misses a consonant that shapes the words of a scene.
Unwritten vowels
- The vowels that carry meaning are the ones that vanish
- Hebrew words are built from consonantal roots, and the vowels that turn a root into a specific word are normally unwritten and easily reduced in fast speech. On screen a deaf viewer is left with a consonant skeleton and must guess the vowels — exactly the information a lip-reader cannot recover.
Root-and-pattern homophony
- Related words that sound and look almost alike
- Because Hebrew derives many words from the same three-consonant root by changing the vowel pattern, closely related terms sit very near each other in sound and on the lips. In a fast scene, a deaf viewer who misses the vowel pattern cannot tell which form of the root was meant.
Hebrew–English code-switching
- English dropped into Hebrew content
- Israeli TV, film, and online content mix English terms and product names into Hebrew constantly. A deaf viewer meets English phonology on the key word, then returns to Hebrew, with no visual warning and no lip to read after a cut.
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Download on theApp StoreIsrael requires captioning on part of TV — but most content is left out
Israel's deaf and hard of hearing population is estimated at around 7,000 deaf people and some 500,000 with hearing impairment, and most deaf Israelis use and understand sign language. Israel has a broadcasting-accessibility law: the 2005 legislation requires a quarter of programming on particular channels to be broadcast with subtitles and sign language, with captions on news at reasonable hours.
But a 25% requirement leaves three-quarters of programming without accessible captions, and it applies to particular channels rather than the whole media landscape. Streaming and commercial content vary widely, social and short-video content is largely uncaptioned, and — beyond the coverage gap — the gutturals, uvular resh, and unwritten vowels that make Hebrew 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 Kan bulletin, a Keshet drama, a YouTube clip — and read Hebrew captions in real time from the audio, whether or not that content falls under the law's requirement.
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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
"The law covers a quarter of programming, so most of what I watch has no captions. Captio AI captions the dialogue from the audio, in real time. It finally covers everything else."
"The gutturals and the uvular resh give me nothing on the lips, and the vowels are not even written. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio. I follow the whole story now."
"Live news captions come and go and Hebrew builds so many words from the same root. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words finally line up with the picture."
"Israeli content mixes Hebrew and English constantly and YouTube auto-captions are unreliable. Captio AI captions any clip accurately from the audio. It covers exactly the content the platforms do not."
"The law covers a quarter of programming, so most of what I watch has no captions. Captio AI captions the dialogue from the audio, in real time. It finally covers everything else."
"The gutturals and the uvular resh give me nothing on the lips, and the vowels are not even written. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio. I follow the whole story now."
"Live news captions come and go and Hebrew builds so many words from the same root. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words finally line up with the picture."
"Israeli content mixes Hebrew and English constantly and YouTube 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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