Spanish live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Spanish tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Spanish 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.
RTVE and other broadcasters run live news and sport that pre-generated subtitles lag behind. Point Captio AI at your TV and read the Spanish as it is spoken, not several seconds behind the presenter.
Netflix, Movistar+, and other platforms vary in subtitle quality — and generic subtitles are not the same as captions built for deaf viewers. Captio AI works as a consistent fallback for any Spanish show or film.
YouTube auto-captions for Spanish are often inaccurate and most social video has none. Point Captio AI at your phone and read accurate Spanish captions for any clip.
A foreign film, a foreign documentary, a non-Spanish channel. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so anything becomes watchable in Spanish as it plays.
Not every cinema showing has open captions. Hold Captio AI near the audio and read real-time Spanish captions of the dialogue discreetly from your seat.
Most Spanish 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 Spanish is hard to understand
Speed
- One of the fastest languages, at broadcast pace
- Spanish is among the highest-syllable-rate languages in the world. A news anchor or a telenovela character delivers a line and moves on before a deaf viewer, watching a face across the room, can segment it — and on screen the pace never slows for you.
Syllable-final deletion
- Caribbean and Andalusian speech drops word endings
- In Caribbean and southern Spanish, word-final consonants weaken or disappear — 'las casas' becomes 'lah casah'. A deaf viewer watching a Cuban series or an Andalusian presenter meets words whose endings, carrying number and agreement, simply are not there on the lips.
Dialect variation across screens
- Spain, Mexico, Argentina — every accent streams
- Spanish-language film and TV span Castilian, Mexican, Rioplatense, and Colombian speech. The seseo–ceceo distinction, Argentine intonation, and Andalusian aspiration create different lip shapes for the same word, so a deaf viewer re-calibrates with every new show or film.
Merged rhotics and ll/y
- Key consonants invisible or identical
- The tapped and rolled r of Spanish, and the yeísmo merger of ll and y, produce sounds that are either invisible on the lips or identical to one another. In a fast scene, the consonants that distinguish a name or a place are exactly the ones a viewer cannot recover.
Dubbing and voiceover
- Foreign content dubbed into Spanish never matches the lips
- Much foreign film and TV is dubbed into Spanish, so the words a viewer hears do not match the lips on screen at all. 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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Download on theApp StoreSpain subtitles most of its television — but not in the way deaf viewers need
In Spain, the National Statistics Institute counts 1,064,000 people who are deaf or have a hearing disability, and across Latin America the World Health Organization estimates that the large majority of people with disabling hearing loss live in low- and middle-income countries where media accessibility is least developed. Spain's audiovisual law requires 90% of public-channel and 75% of open-channel programming to be subtitled, and digital terrestrial television reached over 83% subtitled programming in 2020.
But volume is not the same as accessibility. As Spanish deaf organisations point out, generic subtitles in a language are not the same as subtitles built for deaf people — which mark who is speaking and describe the sounds and music essential to following a scene. And the percentages cover regulated broadcast: live content still lags, streaming and social video vary wildly, and foreign film and TV dubbed into Spanish leave a deaf lip-reader with a mouth that does not match the soundtrack at all.
Captio AI does not depend on the broadcaster or the platform. Point the phone at any screen — a live RTVE news bulletin, a Netflix series, a dubbed foreign film — and read Spanish captions in real time, verbatim, whether or not that content was ever captioned for deaf viewers.
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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
"Spanish TV has subtitles, but on live news they lag and they do not mark who is talking. Captio AI captions in real time and I can follow who says what. It fills exactly the gap the broadcast subtitles leave."
"Dubbed foreign films are hopeless for lip-reading — the mouth speaks English, the sound is Spanish. Captio AI captions the Spanish soundtrack from the audio. For the first time I can watch a dubbed movie and follow it."
"Telenovelas move fast and the Caribbean accents drop the ends of words. Captio AI captions every line word for word from the audio. I stopped guessing at the plot and started actually enjoying it."
"Argentine YouTube barely has captions and Rioplatense Spanish has its own rhythm. Captio AI captions the clip accurately in real time. It covers everything the platforms do not."
"Spanish TV has subtitles, but on live news they lag and they do not mark who is talking. Captio AI captions in real time and I can follow who says what. It fills exactly the gap the broadcast subtitles leave."
"Dubbed foreign films are hopeless for lip-reading — the mouth speaks English, the sound is Spanish. Captio AI captions the Spanish soundtrack from the audio. For the first time I can watch a dubbed movie and follow it."
"Telenovelas move fast and the Caribbean accents drop the ends of words. Captio AI captions every line word for word from the audio. I stopped guessing at the plot and started actually enjoying it."
"Argentine YouTube barely has captions and Rioplatense Spanish has its own rhythm. Captio AI captions the clip accurately in real time. It covers everything the platforms do not."
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