Earphone Translation
Beta — Real-time Earphone Translation
Real-time voice translation for English and Kiswahili conversations. Powered by a streaming pipeline that captures speech, translates it, and speaks it back through earphones.
What it does
Earphone Translation enables real-time speech-to-speech translation between English and Kiswahili. Two people wearing earphones can have a natural conversation — each speaking their own language, each hearing the other in theirs.
How it works
The system chains three stages in a streaming pipeline: speech recognition captures what is said, machine translation converts it, and text-to-speech delivers it in the target language — all in under two seconds through standard earphones.
Use cases
- **Healthcare:** Doctors and patients communicating across the language barrier without an interpreter
- **Business:** Cross-language meetings and negotiations happening naturally
- **Education:** Students accessing instruction in their strongest language
- **Government services:** Citizens engaging with officials in the language they think in
Current status
Batch translation is fully functional. Real-time streaming pipeline is built and in testing. Try the demo in the [Translate playground](/translate).