Latvian live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Latvian tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Latvian 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 Latvian moves fast — an LTV news bulletin, an ice-hockey game, a Song and Dance Festival broadcast. Point Captio AI at the screen and read the commentary and reporting in real time as it happens.
Streaming catalogues carry Latvian dubs and originals, but deaf-accessible captions are inconsistent. Captio AI captions a series or film from the audio, so you follow the dialogue whether or not the platform provides subtitles.
Latvian YouTube and social clips — creators from Riga, Daugavpils, and Liepāja — rarely carry reliable captions. Point Captio AI at the speaker and read every word.
Foreign films reach Latvian screens subtitled or voiced-over. Captio AI captions the Latvian audio track in real time, so you can follow the dialogue directly rather than racing a single narrator's voice.
In a Riga cinema showing a Latvian film, hold your phone toward the audio and read the dialogue as the scene plays.
Latvian podcasts and radio — news, history, culture — arrive as audio only. Upload a recording to Captio AI and read the full conversation as text.
Most accurate and fastest models
word accuracy
independent benchmark, 2025
real-time captions
first word appears as you speak
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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 Latvian is hard to understand
Syllable tones
- Words told apart by tone, not by the lips
- Latvian has syllable tones — level, falling, and broken — that can distinguish otherwise identical words. Tone is carried in the voice, so a deaf viewer watching a presenter or a dubbed voice gets no visual cue for the contour that fixes the meaning.
Vowel length
- Long and short vowels look the same
- Latvian distinguishes long from short vowels, and the difference alone separates words. Length is a matter of timing, not lip shape, so a long and a short vowel form the same picture on the mouth and a deaf viewer cannot see which was spoken.
Palatalization
- Soft consonants formed out of sight
- Latvian has palatalized consonants made with the tongue raised against the palate. That movement is hidden inside the mouth, so a deaf viewer watching a film cannot tell a plain consonant from its softened partner.
Fixed stress, reduced endings
- Grammar hides in unstressed tails
- Latvian stress is fixed on the first syllable, which leaves the grammatical endings unstressed and easy to swallow in fast speech. Those endings mark case and number and fall where lip-reading is weakest, so a deaf viewer loses the structure of a sentence.
Latgalian gap
- The eastern variety sounds distinct
- Latgalian, spoken in the east, differs markedly from standard Latvian in its vowels and vocabulary. When a programme features a Latgalian speaker, a deaf viewer used to the Riga standard meets an almost separate sound system.
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Around one in ten people in Latvia live with hearing loss — surveys put the figure near 11 percent, roughly 200,000 people — in a country of under two million with one of Europe's oldest populations, where more than a fifth are over 65. That is a large audience whose access to the screen depends on text rather than sound.
Latvian public television has leaned heavily on sign language: LTV has expanded interpreted content and added a scrolling news ticker, and the Latvian Association of the Deaf has had to press the broadcaster to carry emergency information with interpreters live on air rather than only online. Subtitling built for deaf viewers, by contrast, is patchy — and commercial channels, streaming, and the foreign films that fill the schedules mostly fall outside any accessibility provision.
The result is a viewer served by signed news and left out of most drama, sport, and foreign content on the screen. Captio AI closes that gap: point the phone at any screen — an LTV bulletin, a streaming series, a voiced-over foreign film — and read Latvian 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
"LTV signs and runs a ticker but the commercial channels and streaming have nothing. Captio AI captions the audio in real time, on any channel. I follow the whole evening now."
"Foreign films come voiced over by one narrator I cannot use. Captio AI captions the Latvian audio directly. I finally follow the story."
"Live commentary runs fast and the tones give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words match the game."
"A Latgalian speaker sounds like another language to me. Captio AI captions whatever variety a show uses. It covers exactly what the platforms leave out."
"LTV signs and runs a ticker but the commercial channels and streaming have nothing. Captio AI captions the audio in real time, on any channel. I follow the whole evening now."
"Foreign films come voiced over by one narrator I cannot use. Captio AI captions the Latvian audio directly. I finally follow the story."
"Live commentary runs fast and the tones give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words match the game."
"A Latgalian speaker sounds like another language to me. Captio AI captions whatever variety a show uses. It covers exactly what the platforms leave out."
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