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RTranslator — Open-source and offline simultaneous translator for Android
Connect to someone who has the app, connect Bluetooth headphones, put the phone in your pocket and you can have a conversation as if the other person spoke your language.
You can also use it like any other translation app, offline and with total privacy.
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@luca_martino1 Cheers to the team for launching this! Wishing you an extraordinary journey ahead. What’s the story behind the product's name?
@kjosephabraham Thank you! The name is simply derived from Real Time Translator but with the two T's "merged".
@luca_martino1 Wow, great idea. I definitely will try it. But I want to ask first, when having a conversation, is the voice I hear just a translation of what the other person said, or does it carry the tone of human speech?
@loggerhead Thank you. For now it uses the system tts to speak, so it doesn't emulate the user's voice or even the tone (even if at least the rhythm is emulated to a minimum thanks to the fact that the voice recognition also inserts punctuation), but these are features that I will definitely implement in the future.
Amazing work, RTranslator! Offering an open-source, offline simultaneous translator for Android is a game-changer for privacy-conscious users. The ability to connect Bluetooth headphones and have real-time conversations in different languages, all while keeping your phone in your pocket, is incredibly convenient and innovative.
To make it even more powerful, consider adding support for group conversations or integrating learning features to help users pick up new languages as they use the app. Keep bridging language gaps with style!
@nicholas_cheng_sg Thank you. Group conversation is already supported with Conversation mode (you can connect more than 2 devices together). I don't think the language learning features will be added because that's not the main purpose of RTranslator, although I never rule anything out for the future, of course.
Hey Luca,
How many languages does it currently support?
I'm curious about the audio quality. How well does it handle background noise or accents?
Congrats on the launch!
@kyrylosilin Thank you!
The supported languages are 31, but it is possible to enable support for low quality languages and, in that case, it goes up to 70, for the complete list of languages see here: https://github.com/niedev/RTrans....
As for the accents, testing it with different Italian accents it works very well, for the background noise I am not sure because I have not had the chance to test it well, but most likely with good headphones there should be no problems.
RTranslator sounds like it's really breaking the language barrier! Huge props to @luca_martino1 for making the world a smaller place, one translation at a time! 💬
I recommend RTranslator for instant translation on Android. This open-source app works offline, ensuring privacy.
@mitia Thank you! The supported languages are 31, but it is possible to enable support for low quality languages and, in that case, it goes up to 70, if you want to know more, the list of supported languages is on the GitHub page.
Launching soon!
@luca_martino1 Impressive launch! Your app's seamless language translation with Bluetooth headphones is brilliant. At InterWiz, we revolutionize hiring with AI avatars conducting interviews for any time, anywhere convenience. How do you see your app enhancing remote team collaborations across different languages?
Launching soon!
@luca_martino1 I believe that is very much achievable. Thanks for the conversation and for sharing your insights! Also, Feel free to follow InterWiz on Product Hunt by hovering over my ‘launch soon’ badge so you’ll get notified when we go live. We’d love to hear your feedback then!
Congratulations on building and finally launching a simultaneous interpreting app! It's incredible that you've gone free and open source by utilizing OpenAI's Whisper for speech recognition and Meta's NLLB for translation - both running natively on your phone. It's really impressive to have seamless conversations with others using a Bluetooth headset, especially with the offline functionality and complete privacy protection. @luca_martino1
@hackerqed Thank you! Yes, both the voice recognition and the translation run on the phone itself (I don't have a server at all), the quality is not yet at the level of Google Translate but it is comparable to it, at least for the languages I have tested well.
A friend of mine has been looking for a tool like this for language learning. I’m excited to share this with them!
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