Real-time call translation — while they are still talking
Whisperer follows the call and shows the translation while the other person is still speaking — two plates, the original and the translation — in the same window above your screen. No switching tabs, no asking anyone to say that again.
Max plan · app for macOS and Windows
The answers below are an example. Your own base connects in the app.
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Let's start with Q3 — how did conversion move?
Conversion is up 14% — let me pull up the funnel.
And the cost per lead?
Cost per lead is €12.40 — 9% under plan. Most of the gain came from organic.
Not a video — this is Whisperer itself, and the panel really answers. The microphone starts only when you press it.
EN → RU
Two lanes, moving in step
On the left what is being said, on the right what you read. Press Play: the translation arrives after the line, not alongside it. That is how it works — claiming “no delay” would be untrue.
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Them · RUПилот, по сути, закончен. Сейчас нам нужно решение по цене.EnglishThe pilot is basically done. What we need now is a decision on pricing.
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You · ENWe are ready to discuss pricing, but first I want to understand the volume for next quarter.РусскийМы готовы обсуждать цену, но сначала хочу понять объём на следующий квартал.
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Them · RUПримерно столько же, может быть на пятнадцать процентов больше, если интеграция взлетит.EnglishRoughly the same, maybe fifteen percent more if the integration lands.
A recorded example of the two lanes. The live demo is in the panel above: it listens only when you press.
Limits
Two things to know up front
Both follow from how the product is built, and neither is a setting. The empty lane above is the first one.
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First
One recording at a time, not an archive migration
A finished recording can be uploaded: the Meetings section takes one file up to 25 MB — mp3, m4a, wav, ogg, flac, aac, plus mp4 and webm, from which the audio track is used. What is missing is bulk upload of a whole archive; and it spends the same minutes a live call does.
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Second
The other side comes through system audio
Their speech arrives through system audio: on macOS that means granting the Screen Recording permission, on Windows no extra permission is needed. Without it the transcript and the translation contain your lines only — and theirs are the ones you came for.
Setup
Three switches and that is it
Translation lives in the client settings, not in a separate app. No bot in the call, no integration with the conferencing service.
Target language
The language you want to read. The translation plate stands next to the original, so you see both. The ordinary transcript strip steps aside while translation is on.
Source language
Auto-detected or pinned. If the call runs strictly in one language, pin it — the accuracy is better that way.
Their side only
Useful on bilingual calls: your own language needs no translation, and the extra line only gets in the way.
What this looks like in specific services, and what to do when the other side is not audible, is covered in A live interpreter for Zoom, Google Meet and calls.
Plans and platforms
Simultaneous translation means the Max plan and a desktop app
We say this before you sign up, so the plan is not a surprise. Everything above — translation over Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Telegram and an ordinary phone call — runs on the Max plan only and only in the app for macOS or Windows. It is not on Start, not on Pro, and cannot be bought separately. It draws on the same weekly premium budget as the frontier models.
People often confuse this with a second, different feature: a meeting you host inside Whisperer, from a calendar link rather than in someone else's service. There, translation works differently and costs differently.
| What | Where it works | Plan | Where you are |
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| Simultaneous translation two plates: original and translation, voiced if you want |
Over someone else's call: Zoom, Meet, Teams, Telegram, phone | Max only. Drawn from the premium budget | App only: macOS, Windows |
| Subtitles with translation each participant in their own language |
A meeting hosted inside Whisperer, from a calendar link | Start and Pro — 60 minutes of speech per 7 days; Max — from the premium budget | Browser, phone included |
The difference is not the plan but whose meeting it is. Ours we hear from the inside and translate for every participant — nothing to install, a browser is enough. Someone else's we hear only through your computer's audio, and everything else follows from that: the app, macOS and Windows, and the Max plan.
Live Translation
Two modes of voice translation
Both translate for real. The trade-off differs: standard waits for a finished thought and sounds more natural, simultaneous starts earlier and builds the translation from a phrase you have not finished yet.
Standard
Waits for the end of your phrase, then translates it whole. Smoother and more natural.
Simultaneous
Translates as you speak: the other side hears you about two seconds in.
Questions
What people ask first
How large is the delay?
The translation appears a second or two after the original line. Both are visible at once, as two plates; the ordinary transcript strip steps aside while translating, so the same speech does not run twice. A noticeably longer delay usually means the connection — translation is an extra network round trip.
Which languages does it work with?
Recognition runs on Whisper, which supports more than 90 languages; the session language is set before you start. The target language and the source language are chosen separately in the client settings.
Can I upload a finished recording?
Yes. In the Meetings section you pick the file with a button or drag it in — one at a time, up to 25 MB: mp3, m4a, wav, ogg, flac, aac, plus mp4 and webm, from which the audio is taken. From there it goes exactly like a live call: transcript, meeting map, decisions and tasks. A whole archive cannot be uploaded in one go, and in no-logs mode upload is unavailable — nothing is stored there by design.
Does anything need installing in Zoom or Google Meet?
No. Whisperer is a window above your screen, not a plugin for the conferencing service and not a participant. It runs over Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Discord and anything else.
Will the other side know I am reading a translation?
The window is visible to you only, and it stays out of a shared screen when capture exclusion is on. Nothing stops you from saying you are using translation either — on international calls that is unremarkable.
Is translation included in the free plan?
No, and Free is not the only limit: translation over someone else's call is on the Max plan only. It runs in the macOS or Windows app and draws on the same weekly premium budget as the frontier models. Free gives 60 minutes of recognition a month, but no translation of any kind.
Subtitles with translation inside a meeting you host in Whisperer are a different feature: they start on the Start plan, run in the browser and are metered in minutes of speech.
What is left after the call?
The full transcript in your account history, a meeting map with topics, decisions and tasks, and search across what was said. If you would rather keep nothing, switch on no-logs mode.
Try it on one call
Take the next conversation with a colleague abroad, or sit in on any webinar in a language you half-know. Fifteen minutes is enough to tell whether the translation line helps or distracts.