BabelMe vs Speaklu

Sit in a lecture given in a language you are still learning, and walk out with notes you can read in your own. BabelMe listens to the room, turns speech into clean structured notes, and translates them into your language — on your phone, and on a laptop screen while your phone keeps recording. TRANSCRIBE — Capture a lecture, class, or meeting as clean, structured notes, then play back the recorded audio to check what was actually said. Your transcription stays when you switch modes, until you clear it, and capture recovers on its own if a call or your keyboard's dictation key interrupts the microphone. Choose a document type and let AI formatting shape it (paid plans): - Lecture: organized notes from a class or talk. - Meeting: decisions, action items, and follow-ups. - Recipe: a spoken cooking walkthrough becomes a clean recipe card with ingredients and steps. - Medical Appointment: a structured DRAFT of visit notes for the clinician to verify, with a consent step before recording. Not a medical record and not medical advice. - General: clean notes from any dictation. CONNECT LAPTOP — Share one link and follow your live transcript in a browser on a bigger screen while your phone keeps recording. Your original recording and the raw transcript stay untouched as your record of what was said. LIVE CHAT — Talk face-to-face across languages. Speak or type; BabelMe translates and can speak replies aloud in the listener's language. TRANSLATE — Fast text translation for signs, menus, homework, and quick questions, with playback voices where supported. MESSAGES — Message friends across languages; each side reads and hears the conversation in their own language. BROADCAST — Guide a group in their preferred languages: tours, announcements, classrooms. PARTY ROOM — A shared live room where everyone can speak at once in their own voice, and each person follows along in their own language. Built for real multilingual life: study and lectures, travel moments, school events, tours, parties, classrooms, and clinics. Pick the mode that fits the moment. Accessibility is part of the design: BabelMe starts with text when needed and uses audio when it helps, with large high-contrast type and everything readable aloud. Optional voice features personalize playback, while Standard device voices keep a free local fallback available where the phone supports it. Your words stay yours. People join shared rooms by choice. BabelMe helps more people feel included in the moment. Plans: Lite, Plus, Voice Pro, and Heavy monthly plans add Premium Listen minutes, translations, AI notebook formatting, and Premium/My Voice audio. One-time add-on packs are available. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Speaklu translates voice conversations in real time, in over 100 languages. The whole point is speed. Most translation apps make you wait — you say something, watch a spinner, then read the result. Speaklu shows the translation while you're still speaking. The lag is around 200 milliseconds, which is fast enough that the other person can just keep talking. So you can actually have a conversation. Not a phrasebook lookup. A conversation. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT Talk to someone in another language, in person. Speaklu listens to both of you and shows what each of you said in the other person's language, side by side. You can put the phone between you, or use a split-screen view. Sit in on a meeting. Connect Speaklu to a Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams call and it will translate what's being said into your language as the meeting happens. Useful for international stand-ups, sales calls, interviews. Watch foreign videos. Speaklu can translate audio from videos as they play, with captions in your language. Share a live transcript. If you're presenting or speaking to a group, you can share a web link that shows the translation in real time. Anyone with the link can follow along in their own language. Get a summary afterward. Once a conversation ends, Speaklu can write up a short recap of what was said. Useful when the meeting was long and you want the gist without scrolling through transcripts. WHO IT'S FOR Travelers who want to actually talk to people, not point at a screen. Professionals on calls with people who don't speak the same language fluently. Sales, support, partnerships, hiring. Teams that work across countries and end up on calls where half the room is operating in their second or third language. Students studying abroad, or anyone learning a language and wanting a safety net during real conversations. HOW IT'S DIFFERENT Most translation apps were built around text. Type a sentence, get a sentence back. That works for menus and signs, but not for a conversation, because conversations don't pause politely while a server roundtrips your audio. Speaklu is built for voice from the ground up. It streams audio, translates as it goes, and shows results before the speaker finishes the sentence. That's why the latency feels different. The design is intentionally quiet. No popups, no ads, no animated mascots. It looks the way the apps you actually like on your phone look. SUBSCRIPTION Speaklu is free to try for 3 days. After that, it renews at the price shown when you sign up, billed through your Apple ID. You can cancel anytime in iPhone Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions, and as long as you cancel before the renewal date you won't be charged. HELP & LINKS Website: https://speaklu.com/ Privacy policy: https://speaklu.com/privacy-policy.html Terms: https://speaklu.com/terms-and-conditions.html