Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

Vietnamese live captions and productivity tool for deaf and HoH people.

Follow any Vietnamese conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Northern Vietnamese (Hanoi) and Southern Vietnamese (Ho Chi Minh City) varieties.

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Use Cases

Works in every situation

Designed for the real moments that matter — not just quiet controlled environments.

💬Everyday Conversations

Most Vietnamese conversations happen fast, at normal pace, without warning. Captio AI captions every word as it's spoken, so you can follow without asking anyone to repeat themselves.

🤟Communicating with Deaf & HoH

Hearing people often don't know how to adapt when talking with deaf or hard of hearing Vietnamese speakers. Captio AI turns their speech into real-time captions, so the conversation can happen naturally on both sides.

💼Meetings

In Vietnamese meetings, decisions happen fast and people talk over each other. Captio AI captions every speaker as they talk, so you never miss a decision or a question directed at you.

🎓Lectures

Vietnamese lecturers speak quickly, cover complex material, and rarely repeat themselves. Captio AI gives you a live transcript of everything said, so you can follow the content instead of straining to hear it.

🏥Doctor Appointments

Doctors speak quickly in Vietnamese and use clinical language that's easy to mishear. Captio AI shows you everything they say in real time, so you can follow your diagnosis and ask the right questions.

🤝Job Interviews

Missing a question in a Vietnamese interview means answering wrong or asking for a repeat. Captio AI shows you every word the interviewer says, so you can focus entirely on your answer.

📱Phone & Video Calls

Vietnamese phone and video calls are harder to follow than in-person conversations. No lip reading, often poor audio quality. Captio AI captions whoever is speaking in real time, so you do not need to ask for repeats.

👥Group Settings

In Vietnamese group conversations, multiple people talk at once and the thread moves fast. Captio AI keeps up with whoever is speaking, so you can follow without losing where the conversation is going.

🍽️Restaurants & Cafes

Background noise in Vietnamese-speaking restaurants and cafes makes speech hard to follow. Captio AI focuses on whoever is speaking to you, so you can have a real conversation through the noise.

✈️Traveling

In Vietnamese-speaking cities, airports, and hotels there is no margin for mishearing. Captio AI captions speech in real time, so you can navigate confidently wherever you go.

🎤Conferences & Events

At Vietnamese conferences, speakers are far away, acoustics are unpredictable, and you cannot ask for a repeat. Captio AI gives you a live transcript of every speaker, so you can follow the full event from any seat.

📺TV & Media

Built-in subtitles on Vietnamese TV, films, and videos are often wrong, delayed, or missing. Captio AI captions whatever is playing in real time, so you are not dependent on what the content provides.

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Dialect & Accent Support

Vietnamese dialect & accent support

Supports Northern Vietnamese (Hanoi) and Southern Vietnamese (Ho Chi Minh City) varieties.

Hà Nội dialect

Northern Vietnamese — the Hanoi variety that serves as the basis for Standard Vietnamese. Used in national broadcasting, education, and official communication. Has the full 6-tone system and the clearest final consonant distinction of all Vietnamese varieties. Captio AI handles Hà Nội Vietnamese with full accuracy.

Nghệ An dialect

Spoken in Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh provinces — a transitional North-Central variety with a strongly distinct intonation, vowel system, and vocabulary that sets it apart from both Standard Northern and Central Vietnamese. Often considered the hardest Vietnamese variety for other Vietnamese speakers to understand. Captio AI handles educated Nghệ An speech accurately.

Huế dialect

Central Vietnamese — spoken in Huế, the former imperial capital, and across Central Vietnam. Has the most distinct pronunciation of all Vietnamese varieties, with different vowel sounds and a reduced tone system in some sub-varieties. Captio AI handles educated Huế speech accurately.

Đà Nẵng dialect

Spoken in Đà Nẵng and the surrounding coastal region — a transitional variety between northern and southern dialects. More broadly intelligible than the Huế variety to both northern and southern speakers. Captio AI handles Đà Nẵng speech accurately.

Sài Gòn dialect

Southern Vietnamese — spoken in Ho Chi Minh City and across the Mekong Delta. Has merged two of the six Northern tones and simplified some consonants (v/d merge, soft r). The most widely spoken variety outside Vietnam. Captio AI handles Sài Gòn Vietnamese with full accuracy.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese doctor's appointment or job interview never ends up in a training dataset. Not ours. Not anyone else's.

100% PRIVATE
Accessibility

Hearing accessibility for Vietnamese speakers

Vietnamese Sign Language (VSL) — with Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and Haiphong varieties

Vietnam has around 1 million deaf people and three distinct regional sign languages, centered in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and Haiphong. In 2020, the government unified these under a national Vietnamese Sign Language (VSL) standard, with the regional varieties remaining as dialects. Both the Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi sign languages absorbed French Sign Language vocabulary during the colonial period, which is still visible in modern VSL.

Despite the 2020 standardization, practical accessibility is very limited. Most deaf people in Vietnam still have restricted access to basic services including healthcare, education, and public transportation. Sign language interpreters in hospitals or government offices are rare across the country.

For hard of hearing Vietnamese speakers, the north-south language divide adds complexity. Vietnamese spoken in Hanoi and in Ho Chi Minh City has distinct tonal patterns and vocabulary. A hard of hearing person who moves between regions may find familiar words pronounced quite differently. Captio AI handles both Northern and Southern Vietnamese, captioning speech in real time wherever you are.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My colleagues in Ho Chi Minh City speak Southern Vietnamese fast. Captio AI captions every word in real time. I use it in every meeting."

Linh 🇻🇳
linh.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Ho Chi Minh City

"I use Captio AI at my university in Hanoi. Northern Vietnamese lectures are captioned accurately. I follow everything the lecturer says."

Minh 🇻🇳
minh.t***@gmail.com
Deaf, Hanoi

"My hearing started declining last year. I use Captio AI in Da Nang for work and appointments. It handles Central Vietnamese well enough for everyday conversation."

Thu 🇻🇳
thu.p***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Da Nang

"My professors speak fast Northern Vietnamese. Captio AI shows me a live transcript so I do not fall behind. I use it in every lecture."

Nam 🇻🇳
nam.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Hanoi

"Captio AI handles Southern Vietnamese accurately. I use it for meetings and calls at work every day."

Hoa 🇻🇳
hoa.l***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Ho Chi Minh City

"I speak Central Vietnamese in Hue. Captio AI works best for standard Vietnamese but gives me enough to follow most conversations at work."

Long 🇻🇳
long.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Hue

"My colleagues in Ho Chi Minh City speak Southern Vietnamese fast. Captio AI captions every word in real time. I use it in every meeting."

Linh 🇻🇳
linh.n***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Ho Chi Minh City

"I use Captio AI at my university in Hanoi. Northern Vietnamese lectures are captioned accurately. I follow everything the lecturer says."

Minh 🇻🇳
minh.t***@gmail.com
Deaf, Hanoi

"My hearing started declining last year. I use Captio AI in Da Nang for work and appointments. It handles Central Vietnamese well enough for everyday conversation."

Thu 🇻🇳
thu.p***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Da Nang

"My professors speak fast Northern Vietnamese. Captio AI shows me a live transcript so I do not fall behind. I use it in every lecture."

Nam 🇻🇳
nam.v***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Hanoi

"Captio AI handles Southern Vietnamese accurately. I use it for meetings and calls at work every day."

Hoa 🇻🇳
hoa.l***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Ho Chi Minh City

"I speak Central Vietnamese in Hue. Captio AI works best for standard Vietnamese but gives me enough to follow most conversations at work."

Long 🇻🇳
long.d***@gmail.com
Deaf, Hue

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