Portuguese live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Portuguese tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Portuguese 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.
Globo and other broadcasters run live news and sport that pre-generated captions lag behind. Point Captio AI at your TV and read the Portuguese as it is spoken, not several seconds behind the presenter.
Globoplay, Netflix, and other platforms vary in subtitle quality and availability. Captio AI works as a consistent fallback for any Portuguese show or film that ships with wrong, delayed, or missing captions.
YouTube auto-captions for Portuguese are often inaccurate and most social video has none. Point Captio AI at your phone and read accurate Portuguese captions for any clip.
A foreign film, a foreign documentary, a non-Portuguese channel. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so anything becomes watchable in Portuguese as it plays.
Not every cinema showing has open captions. Hold Captio AI near the audio and read real-time Portuguese captions of the dialogue discreetly from your seat.
Most Portuguese 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 Portuguese is hard to understand
Nasal vowels
- Five nasal vowels with almost no lip signal
- Portuguese relies heavily on nasal vowels — the sounds in 'não', 'então', 'coração'. Nasalization is produced at the soft palate and is nearly invisible on the lips, so on a novela or a news read a deaf viewer misses a contrast that changes the word.
European vowel reduction
- Portugal's Portuguese swallows unstressed vowels
- European Portuguese reduces and deletes unstressed vowels aggressively, compressing words into consonant clusters, while Brazilian Portuguese keeps vowels open. A deaf viewer calibrated to Brazilian speech finds a Lisbon presenter's words centralised and swallowed, hard to read on screen.
Fast carioca speech
- Rapid delivery with palatalised endings
- Brazilian speakers, especially from Rio, palatalise 'de' and 'te' to 'dji' and 'tchi' and deliver at speed. In a fast novela scene or a live broadcast, the palatalised, quick speech blurs word boundaries and leaves a viewer little to read.
Portuguese–English on screen
- English terms dropped into Portuguese content
- Brazilian and Portuguese tech content, vlogs, and dubbed material drop English terms into Portuguese sentences. A deaf viewer lip-reading Portuguese meets English phonology on the key word, then returns to Portuguese, with no visual signal and no lip to read after a cut.
Dubbing and mismatched lips
- Foreign content dubbed into Portuguese never matches the mouth
- Brazil dubs a great deal of foreign film and TV into Portuguese, so the words a viewer hears do not match the lips on screen. For a deaf viewer relying on lip-reading, dubbed content is impossible — the mouth is speaking a different language from the soundtrack.
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Brazil's national household survey counts over 10 million people with some hearing impairment and around 2.7 million with severe or total hearing loss, and Portugal adds a further Portuguese-speaking population facing the same barriers. Brazil has one of Latin America's stronger accessibility frameworks: closed captioning (legenda oculta) on broadcast television is required under regulation and the ABNT NBR 15290 accessibility standard.
But the mandate covers broadcast, and reality outruns it. Live programming still lags, streaming subtitle quality varies platform to platform, YouTube and social video are inconsistently captioned, and the huge volume of foreign content dubbed into Portuguese leaves a deaf lip-reader with a mouth that does not match the soundtrack at all. Closed captioning being available in principle is not the same as every screen a viewer opens being accessible.
Captio AI does not depend on the broadcaster or the platform. Point the phone at any screen — a live Globo news bulletin, a Globoplay novela, a dubbed foreign film — and read Portuguese captions in real time, verbatim, whether or not that content carries closed captions.
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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
"Globo has closed captions but on live shows they lag and drop out. Captio AI captions in real time and never falls behind the scene. It fills exactly the gap the broadcast captions leave."
"European Portuguese swallows the vowels and dubbed films never match the lips. Captio AI captions the soundtrack from the audio. For the first time I can watch a dubbed movie and actually follow it."
"Carioca speakers go so fast on live TV that captions can never keep up. Captio AI is right there with them, word for word. I read the news and the football as they happen."
"Portuguese YouTube barely has captions and the tech channels mix in English. Captio AI captions all of it accurately from the audio. It covers everything the platforms do not."
"Globo has closed captions but on live shows they lag and drop out. Captio AI captions in real time and never falls behind the scene. It fills exactly the gap the broadcast captions leave."
"European Portuguese swallows the vowels and dubbed films never match the lips. Captio AI captions the soundtrack from the audio. For the first time I can watch a dubbed movie and actually follow it."
"Carioca speakers go so fast on live TV that captions can never keep up. Captio AI is right there with them, word for word. I read the news and the football as they happen."
"Portuguese YouTube barely has captions and the tech channels mix in English. Captio AI captions all of it accurately from the audio. It covers everything the platforms do not."
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