Hi r/windowsapps,

I’m the developer of Meeting Interpreter, a Windows application I’ve been building for real-time voice translation.

The idea is simple: two people should be able to speak naturally in different languages without constantly stopping to type or manually translate messages.

Meeting Interpreter currently includes:

• Real-time speech-to-speech translation
• Duplex mode for two-way conversations
• Single-direction mode for meetings and calls
• Face-to-Face mode for in-person conversations
• Live transcription and translated speech output
• Designed specifically for Windows

My main focus has been keeping the conversation flow natural and reducing the delay between speech, translation and playback.

I originally started building it for situations where people need to communicate during online meetings despite speaking different languages, but the Face-to-Face mode has also become an important part of the app.

Website: https://meetinginterpreter.com

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NKS36FFS2R6?hl=neutral&gl=TR&ocid=pdpshare

https://github.com/meetinginterpreter/meeting-interpreter

I’d really appreciate feedback from Windows users, especially about the UI, translation workflow and what features you would expect from an application like this.

If anyone has questions about how it works, I’m happy to answer them.

Working on something that live-translates video calls, webinars, and browser video so people talking different languages can actually understand each other in real time — plus cloud recording + transcripts so nothing gets lost.

Curious if others dealing with international clients/suppliers have run into this problem, and what you use today (subtitles? manual translation? just... struggle through it?).

Happy to share more in the comments if people are interested.

voxtranslate.app

Hi everyone! 👋

A few months ago, I shared with you the first version of GianoReader, my open-source desktop app for reading books in their original language with a synchronized, side-by-side translation.

Personally, I use this application a lot, but I find it uncomfortable having to read on a monitor and, like many of you, I would prefer having a mobile version to read comfortably while lying on the couch.

Porting Giano Reader into an Android and iOS app is technically feasible, but it clashes with the translation API usage policies, which would no longer be free.

For this reason, I equipped Giano Reader with a Web Server mode to access the application from any device on the LAN (and if you then want to access it from the outside, I've included instructions in the Manual on how to do it via Tailscale).

Here is the big news:

🌐 New Web Server Mode (Read on Mobile!)

This is the main new feature. Now, with a simple click from the desktop app, you can activate the built-in Web Server. What does this mean in practice?

• GianoReader generates a local IP address (or a QR code).
• You open that address from the browser of your smartphone, tablet (iOS or Android), or from another PC connected to your Wi-Fi network.
• Magic: You will have access to your entire GianoReader library directly from your phone's browser, with the interface adapted for small screens (the original text and the translation are laid out perfectly).
• The big advantage: By using the desktop server, your phone will also use the free translation API (FREE Mode via Google Translate) processed by the PC, bypassing the limitations of mobile browsers and giving you instant, zero-cost translations even under the covers!

🔄 Progress Synchronization

No leaps in the dark. If you start reading a chapter on your PC and then move to bed with your tablet via the Web Server, your reading progress, bookmarks, and translation status remain perfectly synchronized. The PC acts as the "brain", the phone as the "screen".

⚡ Other recent optimizations:

• Significantly improved parsing of more complex EPUBs (better layouts, cleaner handling of footnotes and weird CSS).
• Optimized Smart Lazy Translation to not consume too many resources when scrolling quickly.
• For those using PRO Mode with OpenRouter, I added native support for the latest LLM models for even more natural literary translations.
• Improved integration for scanning Calibre folders.

📥 How to try it

As always, the project is 100% open-source and free. You can download the installers (for Windows, macOS, and Linux) or take a look at the source code directly on GitHub:

👉 https://github.com/DrLoki/GianoReader

🗄️Download

If you had tried the old version, I invite you to give the new Web Server feature a chance. If you find it useful for learning new languages (or if you simply like the idea), a ⭐ on GitHub is the best way to support the project!

As always, I am very open to feedback, advice, or bug reports. Happy bilingual reading, now also from the couch! 📖✨

I built this website with AI:

lamethir.com

And since I find the Hindi language very interesting and beautiful, I decided to make it the second language of the site. Since I am a beginner, I can't tell how accurate it is.

Can anyone here beta test it a bit for me and let me know what sort of issues or problems you notice?

Thanks!

Hey guys,
I've been working on a major project that I think will lift accessibility to ancient works. It's called Ancient Library (ancientlibrary.net). The site includes over 1,000 ancient works, every word parsed with lemma, morphology, and full dictionary entry. It's built to be light, optimized for speed and accessibility, so it should improve student and scholar efforts even in areas with weak or inconsistent internet access globally. It's still in beta, so I'd love some ancient language scholars to interact with the site. If you have thoughts, requested features, etc., I'd love to hear them.

Hello! This is a controversial topic, so, I'll start with the disclaimers:

1. Nothing is better than a human translator.
2. Everyone deserves to have a living wage, and LLMs / machine learning / AI is (in many parts of the world) damage people's abilities to have a living wage.
3. I have a budget of $0 / 0 kr. / € 0
4. I run all of my AI workloads locally, on my own computer hardware.

Hey folks! I'm working on a personal project, as of yet shared only with one in-person friend, to create English subtitles for Den Store Strikkedyst, aka "The Great Knit-Off." Only a few episodes are available with english subtitles. Youtube doesn't have machine-subtitles for Danish, and even the official tvsyd site doesn't have subtitles for most.

I've been using some machine-learning / AI tools to both generate subtitles for these episodes in Danish, and to translate to English. Details on the technical workflow are in a reply.

I have guesses about which LLMs are better/worse for this, but I'd like some feedback on these transcriptions and translations if possible! (I could upload segments with subtitles for folks to view, but I don't know the copyright status of this; it's from 2014.)

I have no interest in profiting on this, and don't want to take work away from translators. (If anyone wants to volunteer to help with subtitling and translation, I'm certainly open to it!)

The following is from the intro of Season 3 Episode 1.

Original Text (via Whisper-Large-V3, I think)

[00:06.830] Den store strikkedyst er endelig tilbage.
[00:10.850] 10 dygtige strikkere er blevet udvalgt til at dyste i sprit nye opgaver.
[00:15.470] De skal være super skarpe de næste par uger, for kun én af dem går hjem som vinder.
[00:20.650] Og denne benhårde strikkekonkurrence, den begynder... nu!
[00:28.240] 10 udvalgte strikkere, så klar til verdens hårdeste strikkekonkurrence.
[00:33.120] Station 3 kommer i nul.
[00:34.700] Jeg er bare klar til at komme ind og drikke.
[00:36.240] Jeg regner med, at det skal nok gå.
[00:38.600] Jeg er helt sikker på, at jeg vinder.
[00:40.000] Jeg går efter at vinde. Det gør jeg helt sikkert.
[00:44.620] Jeg har været spændt på at møde de andre deltagere og se, hvad de er for nogen.
[00:47.660] Hvordan ser de ud? Hvor gammel er de? Er de lige så spændte som mig?
[00:52.400] Det kommer til at blive på nogle wildcards og noget held og noget kreativitet.
[00:56.500] Jeg ved ikke lige, hvor jeg kommer fra.
[00:58.760] Men jeg håber da, at jeg vinder. Selvfølgelig gør jeg det.

LLM A

[00:06.830] The Great Knitting Competition is finally back.
[00:10.850] 10 skilled knitters have been chosen to compete in brand new tasks.
[00:15.470] They need to be super sharp over the next couple of weeks, because only one of them will go home as the winner.
[00:20.650] And this cutthroat knitting competition begins... now!
[00:28.240] 10 selected knitters, all ready for the world's toughest knitting competition.
[00:33.120] Station 3 is resetting.
[00:34.700] I'm just ready to get in there and dive in.
[00:36.240] I reckon it'll go alright.
[00:38.600] I'm absolutely sure that I'll win.
[00:40.000] I'm going for the win. I definitely am.
[00:44.620] I've been excited to meet the other participants and see what they're like.
[00:47.660] What do they look like? How old are they? Are they as excited as I am?
[00:52.400] It's going to come down to some wildcards, some luck, and some creativity.
[00:56.500] I'm not quite sure where I stand.
[00:58.760] But I do hope I win. Of course I do.

LLM B

[00:06.830] The great knitting showdown is finally back.
[00:10.850] 10 skilled knitters have been selected to compete in brand new challenges.
[00:15.470] They will have to be super sharp over the next couple of weeks, because only one of them will go home as the winner.
[00:20.650] And this bone-hard knitting competition, it begins... now!
[00:28.240] 10 selected knitters, ready for the world's hardest knitting competition.
[00:33.120] Station 3, zero in.
[00:34.700] I'm just ready to go in and get started.
[00:36.240] I figure it will turn out fine.
[00:38.600] I am absolutely sure that I will win.
[00:40.000] I'm going for the win. I'm doing it for sure.
[00:44.620] I've been looking forward to meeting the other contestants and seeing what they're like.
[00:47.660] What do they look like? How old are they? Are they as excited as me?
[00:52.400] It's going to come down to some wildcards, some luck, and some creativity.
[00:56.500] I don't really know where I stand.
[00:58.760] But I do hope I win. Of course I do.

LLM C

[00:06.830] The great knitting duel is finally back.
[00:10.850] 10 skilled knitters have been selected to compete in brand-new tasks.
[00:15.470] They need to be super sharp over the next few weeks, because only one of them will go home as the winner.
[00:20.650] And this hardcore knitting competition begins... now!
[00:28.240] 10 selected knitters, all ready for the world's toughest knitting competition.
[00:33.120] Station 3 is starting at zero.
[00:34.700] I'm just ready to get in there and drink.
[00:36.240] I expect it's going to go well.
[00:38.600] I am completely sure that I will win.
[00:40.000] I'm going for the win. I'm definitely going to do that.
[00:44.620] I've been excited to meet the other participants and see what they're like.
[00:47.660] What do they look like? How old are they? Are they as excited as I am?
[00:52.400] It's going to come down to some wildcards, some luck, and some creativity.
[00:56.500] I don't really know where I stand.
[00:58.760] But I hope that I win. Of course I do.

LLM D

[00:06.830] The Great Knitting Duel is finally back.
[00:10.850] 10 skilled knitters have been selected to compete in brand-new challenges.
[00:15.470] They need to be incredibly sharp over the next few weeks, because only one of them will go home as the winner.
[00:20.650] And this hardcore knitting competition begins... now!
[00:28.240] 10 chosen knitters, ready for the world's toughest knitting competition.
[00:33.120] Station 3 is underway.
[00:34.700] I'm just ready to get in there and drink.
[00:36.240] I expect it'll go well.
[00:38.600] I'm absolutely sure that I'll win.
[00:40.000] I'm going for the win. I'm absolutely certain of it.
[00:44.620] I've been excited to meet the other contestants and see who they are.
[00:47.660] What do they look like? How old are they? Are they just as excited as I am?
[00:52.400] It's going to come down to some wildcards, a bit of luck, and some creativity.
[00:56.500] I don't really know what to expect.
[00:58.760] But I do hope I win. Of course I do.

LLM E

[00:06.830] The Great Knitting Contest is finally back.
[00:10.850] 10 skilled knitters have been selected to compete in brand new tasks.
[00:15.470] They will have to be super sharp over the next few weeks, because only one of them will go home as the winner.
[00:20.650] And this cutthroat knitting competition begins... now!
[00:28.240] 10 selected knitters, all ready for the world's toughest knitting competition.
[00:33.120] Station 3 is at zero.
[00:34.700] I'm just ready to get in there and drink. (Note: Likely a slip of the tongue or slang in the original audio)
[00:36.240] I reckon it'll go alright.
[00:38.600] I am absolutely sure that I will win.
[00:40.000] I'm going for the win. I definitely am.
[00:44.620] I've been excited to meet the other participants and see what they're like.
[00:47.660] What do they look like? How old are they? Are they as excited as I am?
[00:52.400] It's going to come down to some wildcards, some luck, and some creativity.
[00:56.500] I'm not quite sure where I stand.
[00:58.760] But I do hope that I win. Of course I do.

(I'll reveal which LLMs these were later on, if desired)

One of the areas of difference is, in "Og denne benhårde strikkekonkurrence," I see translations as "cutthroat," "bonehard," and "hardcore."

As a native US English speaker, I'd say the following:

• cutthroat - This implies intense competition between people - as in, one might (metaphorically) need to cut the throat (murder) an opponent to succeed.
• bone-hard - Nope - I've never heard this used.
• hardcore - this more specifically means "very difficult" - it's not specific to competitions. It can have an adult / NSFW / pornographic connotation, as "hardcore" is a style of pornography, but it's also used to refer to very challenging difficulty video games, for example.

I'd love any feedback people have about this project, and any help folks would like to offer, technically or otherwise.