HACKER Q&A
📣 ginkoutest

Talking to non-English speakers online?


I have a lot of friends abroad I met while traveling, but lost fluency in those languages over the years. I built a piece of tech that is a barebones video chat app that can translate between different languages in real-time with a few seconds of latency. The translation renders as STT output on screen in the target language (with the option for TTS audio output as well).

Some friends mentioned that they might use something like this when reaching out to Chinese manufacturers who don't speak English as well. They run their own businesses (custom hardware and dropshipping) and need to talk with Chinese manufacturers to explain exactly what they need.

I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile making this a SaaS product or just keeping it to myself and my friends. Would anyone else here have a need for a real-time translation video chat app?


  👤 logicalmonster Accepted Answer ✓
> Would anyone else here have a need for a real-time translation video chat app?

I have to question if this is an actual post, because asking if a real-time video translator that works well would be useful to other people seems bizarre.

The answer is yes, that's a great product, if it work well.


👤 yuppie_scum
Google Meets has captions with translation already: https://support.google.com/meet/answer/10964115

Haven't used this feature yet so can't speak to accuracy/usability.