Show HN: Pinch – macOS voice translation for real-time conversations

I encourage you to offer a “translation” option that involves simplification (e.g. Simple German) where the speech language X is translated in a simplified version of the language X. There’s value there.

Tried the beta - really cool! Would love to see more language options, awesome work!

Does this work with less-than-perfect audio, for example, watching foreign TV with background music?

Non-sandboxed macOS app, every single time! :D

Just tried it, it works great! Any plans for offering it on mobile?

Hey, this is very cool! I just tried to make something alike for Windows yesterday for talking in French (Bonjour le Québec). After a few hours fidgeting with Whisper, I ended up finding https://github.com/SakiRinn/LiveCaptions-Translator , but it does not have the virtual microphone feature. Do you plan to support Windows any time soon?

Just need to polish the solution... I experienced some crashes with zoom.

I am the IDEAL user, willing to pay a lot if this works. Count on me feedbacks.

So far:

good: - initial config as good, easy and very simple to feel secure

bad: - high cpu usage - zoom asked me to restart mic - could not make sure if the software works... Google meet has not voice testing loop... Zoom has it, but it did not work for me.

This is really cool, nice job!

Let me just repost this tip:

If you add Deepgram listen API compatibility, you can do live transcription via either Deepgram (cloud) or OWhisper (local): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901853

Any equivalent Android softwares or SaaS to do this?

It looks like whisper + google translate + google TTS. Typical "quality" for that stack, bad latency, no any privacy.

I'm developer of "Linguist", a browser extension for translation in browser, and I say you that nowadays it is possible to translate text locally in device. Linguist have embedded offline translator. The same with TTS and voice recognition.

All this features may run locally in-device, even in browser extension, but not in macOS application?

This product looks rather like a malware that will spy on users and then blackmail us or sell our conversations to email scammers for better targeting or anything.

Additionally it is interesting that Chinese and Korean languages is not supported. You just use cloud services, they are all support these languages, why you don't? Is it to fake something?

"12 hours translation per month" for $29. 12 hours it's about 6-12 meetings? Who is your audience then?