About Live Translate Live
Real-time bilingual conversation translation, built for face-to-face communication.
What Live Translate Live Is
Live Translate Live is a browser-based application that translates both sides of a conversation in real time and displays the result as a scrolling marquee. Two people who do not share a language can talk naturally — the app listens to each speaker, transcribes their speech, translates it, and shows both the original and the translation on screen as the conversation unfolds.
It is designed for in-person conversations first: a tablet on a table between two people, a phone passed back and forth, or a TV mirrored in a room. Because the display is a scrolling marquee rather than a turn-based transcript, neither speaker has to stop and wait. The conversation moves at the speed of speech.
Why It Exists
Most real-time translation tools are built for virtual meetings — captions on top of a video call, or captions attached to a specific conference platform. The face-to-face case has been underserved: a doctor with a non-English-speaking patient, a contractor visiting a customer whose first language is different, a grandparent and grandchild raised in different countries, a couple where one partner's family does not share a common language with the other.
Live Translate Live was built to make those conversations normal. The result is a pay-as-you-go tool that costs roughly $0.05 per minute compared to professional interpreters at $50 to $150 per hour, supports 47 languages in any direction (2,162 language-pair combinations, not just to-and-from English), and requires nothing more than a web browser.
How It Is Built
The app runs entirely in the browser. There is nothing to install. Under the hood, speech is captured with the browser's MediaRecorder API and streamed over WebSocket to a server that uses Deepgram for speech recognition and Google Cloud Translation for translation. The scrolling marquee is rendered client-side. Two independent Deepgram connections run simultaneously — one for each speaker — so both sides of the conversation can be translated in parallel rather than taking turns.
The service uses a credit-based billing model handled by Stripe. Credits do not expire. There are no subscriptions, tiers, or language-pair premiums: every language costs the same.
Who Is Behind It
Live Translate Live is built and operated by Outdoor Devs, an independent developer team based in Canada. The service is governed by Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA) and operates under the Terms of Service posted on this site.
The project started because the existing live-translation options were either locked into a meeting platform, required expensive hardware, or did not support two-way simultaneous translation between arbitrary language pairs. The goal is a tool that stays out of the way: open a browser tab, choose two languages, talk.
How to Reach Us
For support, billing questions, or feedback, sign in and use the in-app contact form. For press or partnership inquiries, the same channel applies.