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Moved to a new country and don't speak the language? Voca Vela translates live conversations both ways, so you and the person in front of you can just talk and hear the translation out loud. It also reads signs, menus, documents and labels through your camera, does quick text translations, and dubs video. There's a practice mode to rehearse a conversation before you have it, but the translation is what helps you from day one. Thirty nine languages, free to start.
I moved to Portugal with my wife, and two dogs. No plan, no preparations, no time to learn the language. We were just fleeing the war in Ukraine.
The situation forced us to adapt fast, and the language barrier was the biggest challenge. We tried a lot of translation apps, but none of them were actually built for real-life situations. No shop owner is going to wait while you get your question right in ChatGPT or Google Translate. And Google Translate would often change the meaning of what I just said and leave me standing there feeling awkward.
That's when I decided to build a prototype, and tried the live translation models from OpenAI and Microsoft. It was already a big step up, but the audio in cafés, shops and offices is never clean, and in those conditions the models just stopped producing anything useful.
So what we have now is a completely custom voice translation pipeline, built to keep both the transcription and the translation contextually correct, and to generate it in real time while you're standing right there. We use the app every single day now. It doesn't just help us in conversations everywhere we go. I've also noticed that I'm starting to remember Portuguese patterns on my own, without taking a single lesson.
If you've ever had to land somewhere new without the language, I'd really love to hear what was hardest for you.
39 languages is wild, and the live two-way translation actually felt natural when I tested it with my phone in front of me. The camera sign reading is a nice extra.
About Voca Vela on Product Hunt
“Helps you adapt in a new country”
Voca Vela was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #99 on the daily leaderboard. Moved to a new country and don't speak the language? Voca Vela translates live conversations both ways, so you and the person in front of you can just talk and hear the translation out loud. It also reads signs, menus, documents and labels through your camera, does quick text translations, and dubs video. There's a practice mode to rehearse a conversation before you have it, but the translation is what helps you from day one. Thirty nine languages, free to start.
Voca Vela was featured in Education (78.8k followers) and Languages (14.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 34.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Voca Vela was hunted by Serhii Lahutin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Serhii Lahutin
I moved to Portugal with my wife, and two dogs. No plan, no preparations, no time to learn the language. We were just fleeing the war in Ukraine.
The situation forced us to adapt fast, and the language barrier was the biggest challenge. We tried a lot of translation apps, but none of them were actually built for real-life situations. No shop owner is going to wait while you get your question right in ChatGPT or Google Translate. And Google Translate would often change the meaning of what I just said and leave me standing there feeling awkward.
That's when I decided to build a prototype, and tried the live translation models from OpenAI and Microsoft. It was already a big step up, but the audio in cafés, shops and offices is never clean, and in those conditions the models just stopped producing anything useful.
So what we have now is a completely custom voice translation pipeline, built to keep both the transcription and the translation contextually correct, and to generate it in real time while you're standing right there. We use the app every single day now. It doesn't just help us in conversations everywhere we go. I've also noticed that I'm starting to remember Portuguese patterns on my own, without taking a single lesson.
If you've ever had to land somewhere new without the language, I'd really love to hear what was hardest for you.