Marathi live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Marathi tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Marathi 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.
Marathi news channels run live bulletins and debates that pre-generated captions cannot keep up with — and live news is exempt from India's captioning rules anyway. Point Captio AI at your TV and read the Marathi as it is spoken.
Zee Marathi, Star Pravah, and streaming apps vary in subtitle quality and availability. Captio AI works as a consistent fallback for any Marathi show or film that ships with wrong, delayed, or missing captions.
YouTube auto-captions for Marathi are often inaccurate and most social video has none. Point Captio AI at your phone and read accurate Marathi captions for any clip.
A foreign film, a foreign documentary, a non-Marathi channel. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so anything becomes watchable in Marathi as it plays.
Not every cinema showing is captioned. Hold Captio AI near the audio and read real-time Marathi captions of the dialogue discreetly from your seat.
Most Marathi 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 Marathi is hard to understand
Four-way stops
- Plain, aspirated, voiced, and breathy — four where the screen shows one
- Marathi contrasts a four-way set of stops — plain, aspirated, voiced, and breathy voiced. The differences are aspiration and voice quality with no lip cue, so on a serial or a fast news read four different consonants look like one on a speaker's face.
Retroflex consonants
- Tongue-curl sounds invisible on screen
- Marathi has a full retroflex series — ʈ, ɖ, ɳ, ɽ — made with the tongue curled back and giving no signal at the lips. On screen a deaf viewer sees the same shape for a dental and a retroflex sound, two different consonants that change the word in a scene.
Marathi–English code-switching
- English dropped into Marathi content
- Marathi serials, films, and YouTube mix English terms into Marathi constantly, especially urban content. A deaf viewer must switch to English phonology on the key words, then back to Marathi, with no visual warning and no lip to read after a cut.
Regional varieties on screen
- Puneri, Varhadi, and coastal Marathi differ
- Marathi content features standard Puneri Marathi, the Varhadi of Vidarbha, and coastal Konkani-influenced Marathi. A deaf viewer calibrated to one meets different vowels and rhythms from one show or character to the next.
Sanskritised register
- Formal news Marathi versus everyday speech
- News and prestige drama reach for a formal, Sanskritised register with long compounds quite different from everyday spoken Marathi. The news read and the family serial can feel like two varieties of the language to a deaf viewer.
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Download on theApp StoreIndia mandates some captions — but not for Marathi'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 Maharashtra is home to one of the largest populations of people with disabilities of any Indian state. 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 Marathi 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 Zee Marathi and Star Pravah, streaming films, and the constant Marathi–English mixing of urban content are largely uncaptioned or inconsistently so, and YouTube auto-captions for Marathi are unreliable.
Captio AI does not depend on the broadcaster or the platform. Point the phone at any screen — a live Marathi news debate, a Star Pravah serial, a YouTube clip — and read Marathi captions in real time, whether or not that content was ever 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.
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People love Captio AI
"Marathi serials mix in English and rarely have good captions, and the aspirated sounds are invisible. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio, in real time. I follow the whole story now."
"Live Marathi news debates have no captions — they are exempt — and everyone talks over each other fast. Captio AI captions it in real time. I finally know what the panel is arguing about."
"Varhadi Marathi from Vidarbha sounds different 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."
"Marathi 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 just to watch a film."
"Marathi serials mix in English and rarely have good captions, and the aspirated sounds are invisible. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio, in real time. I follow the whole story now."
"Live Marathi news debates have no captions — they are exempt — and everyone talks over each other fast. Captio AI captions it in real time. I finally know what the panel is arguing about."
"Varhadi Marathi from Vidarbha sounds different 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."
"Marathi 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 just to watch a film."
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