Murmur
Interprets English speech into Vietnamese in real time, on an iPhone.
The problem #
Someone who does not speak English still has to sit through English conversations, at a clinic, a school meeting, a store. Translation apps that need a button press per sentence are too slow for a conversation.
The approach #
A speech to speech connection to a real time translation model, with a small server that hands the app a short lived session token so the phone never holds a raw key.
Where it is now #
Private. The app compiles and the pipeline works, but it has not yet been tested on a physical phone. Paused since June 2026.
What happens if this works #
Language stops being the reason someone cannot follow a conversation happening in front of them.
Evidence #
- n/a, not yet tested on a device