Swedish live captions and productivity tool for tv & media
For deaf and hard of hearing people.
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Everything you need to follow Swedish tv & media
Four tools built for deaf and hard of hearing Swedish 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.
SVT and TV4 run live news and sport that pre-generated subtitles can lag behind. Point Captio AI at your TV and read the Swedish as it is spoken, not several seconds behind the presenter.
SVT Play, Netflix, and other platforms vary in subtitle quality and availability. Captio AI works as a consistent fallback for any Swedish show or film that ships with wrong, delayed, or missing captions.
YouTube auto-captions for Swedish are often inaccurate and most social video has none. Point Captio AI at your phone and read accurate Swedish captions for any clip.
A foreign film, a foreign documentary, a non-Swedish channel. Live Translator captions and translates in real time so anything becomes watchable in Swedish as it plays.
Not every cinema showing has open captions. Hold Captio AI near the audio and read real-time Swedish captions of the dialogue discreetly from your seat.
Most Swedish 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 Swedish is hard to understand
Pitch accent
- Word pairs told apart by pitch, not by the lips
- Swedish has two contrastive pitch accents on stressed syllables, and the same sequence of sounds can be two different words depending on the pitch pattern. Pitch is carried in the voice, not on the mouth, so a deaf viewer watching a drama or a news anchor gets no visual cue for the accent that fixes the meaning.
Large vowel system
- Nine vowels, many rounded and close together
- Swedish has a large vowel inventory — nine qualities, distinguished by length, giving around eighteen phonemes — including front rounded vowels like y, ö, and ä. Many look almost identical on the lips, so on screen a deaf viewer cannot tell apart the vowel that changes a word.
The sje-sound
- A hard-to-place sound that varies by region
- The Swedish sje-sound ranges from a back, almost h-like sound in the north to a more front, sh-like sound in the south. It has no consistent lip shape, so on screen a deaf viewer cannot read it, and it appears in common vocabulary.
Regional vowel shifts
- Scanian, Gotland, and Finland-Swedish differ
- Swedish content spans dialects that shift the vowels — Scanian heavily diphthongises, Gotland preserves old diphthongs, and Finland-Swedish has its own melody. A deaf viewer calibrated to Stockholm Swedish meets different vowel shapes on other productions.
Swedish–English code-switching
- English dropped into Swedish content
- Swedish content mixes English into Swedish constantly, given the country's high English fluency. A deaf viewer meets English phonology on the key word, then returns to Swedish, with no visual warning and no lip to read after a cut.
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Download on theApp StoreSweden leads on subtitling — and still leaves live and streaming gaps
Hearing loss is common in Sweden: national public-health data puts the overall prevalence at around 17% of adults, and over a million people report difficulty following a conversation among several people. Sweden is a world leader in media accessibility — SVT became the first broadcaster in Europe to subtitle 100% of its on-demand news content, and has invested heavily in automated captioning to expand coverage.
But even the leader leaves gaps. Live programming still relies on real-time subtitling that can lag, commercial and streaming services vary in coverage, and social and short-video content is largely uncaptioned. The pitch accents, close rounded vowels, and shifting sje-sound that make Swedish hard to lip-read leave a deaf viewer stranded wherever a caption is missing — which, off SVT's flagship content, is often.
Captio AI does not depend on the broadcaster or the platform. Point the phone at any screen — a live SVT bulletin, a commercial-channel drama, a YouTube clip — and read Swedish captions in real time from the audio, 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.
Private by default
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People love Captio AI
"SVT is excellent but the commercial channels and streaming apps leave gaps, and the pitch accents give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captions the dialogue from the audio, in real time. It covers everything else."
"Live subtitles still lag and Scanian shifts the vowels differently. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio, whatever the accent. The words finally line up with the picture."
"The sje-sound and the rounded vowels look the same to me on screen. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio. I stopped guessing at the plot."
"Swedish YouTube mixes in English and the auto-captions are unreliable. Captio AI captions any clip accurately from the audio. It covers exactly the content the platforms do not."
"SVT is excellent but the commercial channels and streaming apps leave gaps, and the pitch accents give me nothing on the lips. Captio AI captions the dialogue from the audio, in real time. It covers everything else."
"Live subtitles still lag and Scanian shifts the vowels differently. Captio AI captions it in real time from the audio, whatever the accent. The words finally line up with the picture."
"The sje-sound and the rounded vowels look the same to me on screen. Captio AI captions the actual dialogue from the audio. I stopped guessing at the plot."
"Swedish YouTube mixes in English and the auto-captions are unreliable. Captio AI captions any clip accurately from the audio. It covers exactly the content the platforms do not."
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