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Captio AI

Live Captions & Transcription for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

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Real-time live captions, live translation, audio transcription, and AI summaries for deaf and hard of hearing people. 60+ languages.

PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Communication
  • B2C
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product
  • Android
  • Productivity
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Tech

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Could you build this?

Partial The UI and summaries can be built on existing speech-to-text and translation APIs, but dependable low-latency live captions across 60+ languages and noisy environments needs streaming ASR infrastructure and accessibility testing that vibe coding alone won't supply.

What it would actually take: Use a streaming speech-to-text provider (Deepgram, AssemblyAI, or Whisper-based real-time services) with a machine-translation API, delivered through a mobile or desktop client with WebSocket audio streaming. The hard parts are latency, diarization and accuracy across accents and noise, and testing with Deaf and hard-of-hearing users to meet real accessibility needs. That takes ASR and audio-engineering experience and ongoing evaluation work.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 368 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #174 of 369 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 347 days after the earliest competitor.

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