Lithuanian live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Lithuanian tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Lithuanian 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 Lithuanian moves fast — an LRT news bulletin, a basketball game, a Song Festival broadcast. Point Captio AI at the screen and read the commentary and reporting in real time as it happens.
Streaming catalogues carry Lithuanian 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.
Lithuanian YouTube and social clips — creators from Vilnius, Kaunas, and Klaipėda — rarely carry reliable captions. Point Captio AI at the speaker and read every word.
Foreign films reach Lithuanian screens dubbed, voice-over, or subtitled. Captio AI captions the Lithuanian audio track in real time, so you can follow the dialogue directly rather than racing a single narrator's voice.
In a Vilnius cinema showing a Lithuanian film, hold your phone toward the audio and read the dialogue as the scene plays.
Lithuanian podcasts and radio — news, history, culture — 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 Lithuanian is hard to understand
Pitch accent
- Words told apart by tone, not by the lips
- Lithuanian has a pitch accent — stressed long syllables carry either a rising or a falling tone, and the contrast can change meaning. Pitch lives in the voice, not on the mouth, so a deaf viewer watching a presenter or a dubbed voice gets no visual cue for the tone that fixes the word.
Vowel length
- Long and short vowels look identical
- Lithuanian distinguishes long from short vowels, and the difference alone separates words. Length is a matter of timing in the voice; on screen a long and a short vowel form the same lip shape, so a deaf viewer cannot see which one a speaker used.
Palatalization
- Soft consonants hidden inside the mouth
- Most Lithuanian consonants come in hard and soft (palatalized) pairs, and the softening is made with the middle of the tongue against the palate. That movement is invisible from the front, so a deaf viewer watching a film cannot tell a hard consonant from its soft partner.
Case endings
- Meaning rides on endings that blur
- Lithuanian marks who did what to whom through a rich system of case endings on the ends of words. In fast broadcast speech those endings reduce and run together, and they fall exactly where lip-reading is weakest, so a deaf viewer loses the grammatical thread of a sentence.
Samogitian gap
- The western dialect sounds like another language
- Žemaitian (Samogitian), spoken in the west, differs sharply from standard Lithuanian in its vowels and stress. When a programme features a Samogitian speaker, a deaf viewer used to the Vilnius standard meets an almost unfamiliar sound system.
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Lithuania is home to a long-established Deaf community of roughly 14,500 people who use Lithuanian Sign Language, alongside a far larger group of hard of hearing viewers across an ageing population of some 2.8 million. Research with Lithuanian deaf and hard of hearing audiences found that almost 90 percent consider it highly important to access everything contained in audiovisual material — and that subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing are their preferred way in.
The public broadcaster has moved to widen that access: LRT has steadily increased its subtitled output and launched round-the-clock subtitles for live broadcasts on its portal. But provision beyond the public channels — on commercial television, streaming, and the foreign content that fills Lithuanian screens — remains thin, and much foreign material still arrives with a single voice-over that a deaf viewer cannot use at all.
That leaves a Lithuanian viewer well served by one LRT programme and shut out of the next film or commercial show. Captio AI closes the gap: point the phone at any screen — an LRT bulletin, a streaming drama, a voiced-over foreign film — and read Lithuanian 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
"LRT subtitles a lot now but commercial channels and streaming barely do. Captio AI captions the audio in real time, on any channel. I stopped missing the second half of the evening."
"Foreign films come with one voice-over I cannot use. Captio AI captions the Lithuanian audio directly. I follow the story instead of guessing at it."
"Live commentary runs too fast to lip-read and the pitch accents give me nothing on the mouth. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words match the game."
"A Samogitian speaker sounds nothing like the Vilnius standard and I lose the vowels. Captio AI captions whatever dialect a show uses. It covers exactly what the platforms leave out."
"LRT subtitles a lot now but commercial channels and streaming barely do. Captio AI captions the audio in real time, on any channel. I stopped missing the second half of the evening."
"Foreign films come with one voice-over I cannot use. Captio AI captions the Lithuanian audio directly. I follow the story instead of guessing at it."
"Live commentary runs too fast to lip-read and the pitch accents give me nothing on the mouth. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio. The words match the game."
"A Samogitian speaker sounds nothing like the Vilnius standard and I lose the vowels. Captio AI captions whatever dialect a show uses. It covers exactly what the platforms leave out."
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