Even a Whisper Gets Translated: Teaching a Phone to Listen to Its Own Speaker
The Korean tagline I wrote for the original Play Store listing translates roughly to: “Even a whisper gets translated, reading YouTube by ear.” It was a promise about one specific feature, not a slogan I picked for how it sounded. What “Listening to Its Own Speaker” Actually Means Most translation apps expect you to talk into them, or hold them up to someone else talking. TransLee has always done something slightly different: it can also just sit next to whatever sound is already in the room, a phone playing a YouTube video, a TV, a radio, and translate that sound live, without any screen-sharing or app integration on the source side. ...