Invitation-based access
The invitation connects the intended participant to the conversation.
How Babel works
From spoken words to a translated conversation
Babel combines a private browser conversation, live speech recognition, translation, spoken playback, and a readable transcript. The goal is simple: let participants keep speaking naturally while Babel handles the language change.
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1. Create a private conversation
A host chooses the conversation languages, creates the chat, and sends an invitation. The conversation opens in a modern browser, so participants do not need to install a mobile or desktop application.
Individual devices
Participants join remotely from their own compatible browser and microphone.
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2. Speak and translate live
When someone speaks, Babel processes the live audio for speech recognition and translation. It then produces translated speech for the listener’s selected language. Audio quality, background noise, accents, pace, and specialist vocabulary can affect results.
Automatic speech recognition
Babel recognizes more than 70 input languages and language varieties.
Spoken output
Translated audio is available in 13 supported output languages.
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3. Listen and follow the transcript
Each participant chooses the language they want to hear. A live text transcript appears alongside the audio, providing a second way to follow the exchange. Babel saves the text transcript in chat history but does not save an audio recording.
Personal listening language
The conversation does not depend on one translation setting shared by everyone.
Readable history
Authorized participants can revisit or export the saved transcript.
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What Babel is—and is not
Babel is designed for remote multilingual conversations, not one-off phrase lookup or ordinary cellular call translation. Machine translation can make mistakes, so Babel is not suitable for emergency, medical, legal, or other safety-critical interpretation.
Frequently asked questions
Does Babel translate an ordinary phone call?
No. Babel creates its own browser-based voice conversation. Participants join that conversation through an invitation.
Does everyone hear the same language?
No. Each participant selects the language they want to hear, allowing different listening languages within the conversation.
Is the conversation recorded?
Babel processes live audio to provide the service but does not save an audio recording. It saves the resulting text transcript in chat history.