Talkawa: Two-Way Translator

Why does this app exist? The reason is simple. When we travel, we feel that really talking with local people matters: it is how we get to experience what we can't at home, like their culture, the way they communicate and how they live. But often the language gets in the way and the conversation never goes deep. Especially somewhere with no language in common, the other person may not know our language, and we may not know theirs, so the conversation stays within a very narrow range. You could say we made this app while travelling, and the aim was exactly that: to talk with local people more deeply. Even without a common language, we talked a lot more with it. Chatting and asking questions in restaurants and all kinds of shops became much easier, and we heard many different stories. It made things so much easier for us that we felt it was a good app, and we wanted to share it. There are so many translator apps out there. Why use ours? Where it works best is conversation, and the translation is more accurate: First, for now the app only runs on Apple phones, because it uses Apple's built-in speech-to-text, so that part is free. Second, the worst problems usually come from the raw speech-to-text. When two people speak different languages and everything goes through a translation, one wrongly heard word changes the meaning, and the other person has no idea what you said. So before translating, we added an AI step that first tidies up the words and the meaning, and only then translates, so the translation comes out more accurate. Because the app is made for conversation, every translation comes as both voice and text: it is read out, and it is on screen for the other person to read. Hold the button and speak, one line each, with the phone between you: the app and the phone become a tool that breaks the language barrier. We hope you travel more, talk with more people, and experience more different ways of living. Languages: Cantonese, Japanese, English, Mandarin (Traditional / Simplified), Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Dutch, Turkish. Terms of Use: https://talkawa.com/terms?lang=en Privacy Policy: https://talkawa.com/privacy?lang=en