Captio AI
🦻 Accessibility + 💻 Productivity App

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

Follow any Welsh conversation, meeting or lecture. Supports Standard Welsh and Northern and Southern varieties.

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Captio AI app showing live captions in Welsh
Use Cases

Works in every situation

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

💬Everyday Conversations

Most Welsh 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 Welsh speakers. Captio AI turns their speech into real-time captions, so the conversation can happen naturally on both sides.

💼Meetings

In Welsh 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

Welsh 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 Welsh 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 Welsh 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

Welsh 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 Welsh 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 Welsh-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 Welsh-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 Welsh 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 Welsh 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

Welsh dialect & accent support

Supports Standard Welsh and Northern and Southern varieties.

Gwynedd dialect

Y Wyndodeg — the Venedotian variety spoken in Gwynedd, Anglesey, and the North Wales heartland. The most conservative Welsh variety, with the strongest Welsh-speaking communities and the greatest influence on modern Standard Welsh orthography and broadcasting. Captio AI handles Gwynedd dialect with full accuracy.

Powys dialect

Y Bowyseg — the Powysian variety spoken across mid-Wales. A transitional dialect bridging the northern and southern varieties, with mixed phonological features and rural vocabulary. Spoken in farming communities and market towns of the Welsh interior. Captio AI handles Powys dialect accurately.

Dyfed dialect

Y Ddyfedeg — the Demetian variety spoken in southwestern Wales (Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire). Has distinct vocabulary from northern Welsh varieties. Pembrokeshire in particular has historically strong English presence, creating a transitional zone. Captio AI handles Dyfed dialect accurately.

Gwent dialect

Y Wenhwyseg — the Gwentian variety spoken in southeastern Wales (Glamorgan, Gwent). The most urbanised Welsh variety with the strongest English influence, reflecting the industrial history of the South Wales valleys. Captio AI handles Gwent dialect accurately in standard conversational speech.

Wenglish dialect

Welsh-English code-switching — mixing Welsh and English mid-sentence is natural and everyday for many Welsh speakers, particularly in South Wales. Captio AI handles Wenglish naturally, displaying both languages correctly in the same caption stream.

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Privacy

What you hear stays with you.

Gone the moment it ends

Captio AI processes your Welsh 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 Welsh 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 Welsh speakers

British Sign Language (BSL)

Deaf people in Wales use British Sign Language (BSL). BSL was formally recognized as a language of Wales in 2004 by the Welsh Assembly Government. A landmark Bill subsequently passed by the Senedd gave BSL enhanced statutory status in Wales, and a BSL Route Map — developed with deaf community input from January 2025 — sets out the Welsh Government's commitment to creating a Wales that respects, promotes, and facilitates BSL. Around 13,000 people in Wales use BSL.

Despite recognition, the deaf BSL community has documented significant access barriers across healthcare, education, transport, and employment. The BSL Route Map represents the first substantive policy steps toward practical change, with short-term actions to be completed within 18 months and a longer strategy to follow.

Wales's bilingual context — Welsh and English as co-official languages — creates a distinct environment for deaf users. Hard of hearing Welsh speakers navigate meetings, appointments, and broadcasts that may alternate between Welsh and English. Captio AI handles Welsh-English code-switching naturally and provides real-time captions for both languages.

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Reviews

People love Captio AI

"My team in Cardiff switches between Welsh and English. Captio AI handles both in the same caption stream."

Siân 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
sian.w***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Cardiff

"BSL interpreters are not always available. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Welsh in any situation."

Rhys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
rhys.j***@gmail.com
Deaf, Caernarfon

"My hearing started declining two years ago. I use Captio AI for work meetings and hospital appointments."

Nia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
nia.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Swansea

"Doctor appointments in Wales move fast. Captio AI shows me everything the doctor says in real time."

Iestyn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
iestyn.t***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Aberystwyth

"Captio AI handles North Welsh accurately. I use it at college and at any appointment where I need to follow speech."

Bethan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
bethan.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Bangor

"Captio AI is accurate for Welsh in the south and north. I use it at work every day."

Dylan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
dylan.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Wrexham

"My team in Cardiff switches between Welsh and English. Captio AI handles both in the same caption stream."

Siân 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
sian.w***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Cardiff

"BSL interpreters are not always available. Captio AI gives me a way to follow spoken Welsh in any situation."

Rhys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
rhys.j***@gmail.com
Deaf, Caernarfon

"My hearing started declining two years ago. I use Captio AI for work meetings and hospital appointments."

Nia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
nia.r***@gmail.com
Progressive hearing loss, Swansea

"Doctor appointments in Wales move fast. Captio AI shows me everything the doctor says in real time."

Iestyn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
iestyn.t***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Aberystwyth

"Captio AI handles North Welsh accurately. I use it at college and at any appointment where I need to follow speech."

Bethan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
bethan.m***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing since childhood, Bangor

"Captio AI is accurate for Welsh in the south and north. I use it at work every day."

Dylan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
dylan.h***@gmail.com
Hard of hearing, Wrexham

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