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On-premise AI interpreting

What the world says, in your language.

Tolkr™ interprets live audio for your staff as it plays, and turns recorded programmes into finished dubs, subtitles and translated transcripts. It runs on your organisation's own dedicated systems, with no cloud in between.

  1. Both languages, sentence by sentence

    The original in its own script, and the translation under it, while the speaker is still talking.

  2. What was heard, and the voice that follows

    Your people can read along, or listen to a natural voice.

  3. The sound the way you want it

    Keep the original under the voice, or turn it away and hear only the translation.

Recorded from Tolkr™ Studio. A press statement, French to English.

Local AI

Local AI. No cloud in between.

The AI that listens, translates and speaks runs on your organisation's own systems. That one choice gives you three things a cloud service cannot.

  • No cloud costNo meter running.

    No cloud service charges you per minute, per word or per request.

  • PrivacyYour sound stays yours.

    During use, no connection leaves the PC.

  • Low latencyNo trip to a server.

    Captions and a natural voice follow the speaker as they talk.

What local AI means for you

Languages

130 languages, both ways.

Every language Tolkr™ offers works both ways, into English and out of it.

See every language
spoken by a natural voice, live and in dubs
36
understood as they are spoken
70
in captions, translated both ways
130

One studio. Three ways to use it.

Follow audio as it plays, turn a recording into a finished dub, or bring Tolkr™ into a call.

A channel, a call or a lecture, understood as it plays.

You give
What the PC plays, one app, a microphone or a file
You get
Two caption lines, a natural voice, a saved transcript
About Listen live

A recording goes in. A finished programme comes out.

You give
A video or sound file
You get
Video with both tracks, sound files, subtitles and a report
About Dub a file

The others in your language. You in theirs.

You give
Your video call
You get
Two directions at once, and captions for everyone if you turn them on
About Meetings

Inside the video meetings you already hold.

You speakThey hear their language
You hear your languageThey speak

Your side needs a Windows PC, headphones and a small audio driver. The others join as they always do.

What you deliver

More than a dub. The text and the files your workflow needs.

Every recording and every live session gives your staff the translated words as well as the voice, in the formats editors, archives and broadcasters work with.

Translated text

The words, in both languages

  • SubtitlesSRT or WebVTT, in the translation and the original
  • TranscriptsEvery live session kept in both languages, sentence by sentence
  • Sentence listTimes, original, translation and speaker, in a spreadsheet

Dubbed media

Video and sound, ready for post

  • VideoMP4 or MOV, the dub first and the original second, the picture never encoded again
  • Separate tracksThe voice and the original as their own files
  • Sound filesMP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A or Opus

Broadcast specification

Made to a delivery spec

  • -23 LUFSThe whole mix, with peaks under -1 dBTP
  • 48 or 44.1 kHz24 or 16 bit for WAV and FLAC
  • In syncEach sentence starts with its original

The full delivery spec

What changes

What used to wait no longer has to.

Most foreign language audio is never interpreted, because nobody can book a person for all of it. This is the work Tolkr™ is for.

01 / 05

Before

A press conference starts abroad.

With Tolkr™

Your desk follows it in your language, and quotes it when it ends.

See it live

Find your work.

Choose your sector and see Tolkr™ at work in it.

Recorded from Tolkr™ Studio. A dub, Italian to English.

Your archive, in every language.

Programmes that were never dubbed go out in sync, with tracks and subtitles for post.

  • Each sentence on its original
  • A voice for every speaker
  • Delivered to your spec
See Broadcast and media

Or start from one jobPress conferencesLive channelsNewsroom monitoringArchive backlogTraining videosPodcastsAll 22 jobs

One sentence. Four steps.

This is a real sentence from the recording at the top of this page, followed from the first sound to the finished caption.

  1. Listen

    Takes the sound from the PC, an app, a microphone or a file.

  2. La première phase coûtera 40 millions d'euros.

    Understand

    Recognises the speech and writes it in the original language.

  3. Phase one will cost 40 million euros.

    Translate

    Translates each sentence in the context of the conversation.

  4. La première phase coûtera 40 millions d'euros.

    Phase one will cost 40 million euros.

    Speak and show

    Speaks the translation and shows both lines as captions.

Want each step in depth? Read How it works.

Four things that decide whether it fits.

What a broadcaster, a ministry or a law firm asks before anything else.

Arabic, Hebrew and Persian done properly

Captions in the right script and direction, with long lines broken where the script allows.

See the language list

It runs on your own systems

Recognition, translation and the voice run on each of your workstations. No account is needed to translate, and sessions are ordinary files in folders you control.

During use, it makes no connection outside the PC.

Set up with you, desk by desk

We install Tolkr™ with you on the workstations that need it, ready for the people who use them.

How a rollout goes

Dubbing made to a specification

Each sentence starts with its original, and Tolkr™ Studio reports the result before the file leaves your desk.

Asked first.

Not answered here? Ask the people who build it

Is it live?

Yes. Captions and a natural voice follow the speaker as they talk. In a dub each sentence is placed at its original.

What do our workstations need?

Windows 11. A graphics card makes it faster, and it also runs on the processor. Tolkr™ sets itself up for each workstation.

Which languages does it cover?

Captions in 130 languages, 70 understood as they are spoken, and a natural voice in 36. See the language list.

Can it dub a whole programme?

Yes. File mode dubs long recordings, continues after an interruption and shows the time left.

What do I receive from a dub?

The video with the dubbed and the original sound tracks, the sound files, subtitles, and a report of every sentence, as you choose.

Can we get the translated text without a dub?

Yes. Live sessions are kept as transcripts in both languages, and from a file you can choose subtitles and the sentence list alone, in both languages.

Can it be rolled out across departments?

Yes. Each workstation runs Tolkr™ by itself, with no shared server, and we install it with you on the workstations that will use it.

Does it work in video calls?

Yes. Join the meeting on your PC: you hear the others in your language, and they hear you in theirs. Everyone can also read the translation as captions. If you turn those captions on, the translated text goes to the meeting service.

Can we try it on our own audio?

Yes. Bring a short clip or a channel you need to follow, and we run Tolkr™ on it with you.

Hear it on your own audio.

Bring a recording or a channel you need to follow. We run Tolkr™ on it with you.

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