The original
At your level
- The original plays
- You set how much of it you hear, down to zero
- The translation goes on
Tolkr™ lowers the original for your ears only. At 0 percent you no longer hear it, and Tolkr™ still hears it in full.
Real-time AI interpreter
Hear it as it plays. In your language.
Point Tolkr™ at a channel, a call, a lecture or a file. Read it in your language on two lines, and hear a natural voice follow the speaker.
Recorded from Tolkr™ Studio. A statement, 
English to 
Portuguese.
- 01A natural voicethat follows the speaker
- 02130 languageson screen, into English and out of it
- 03On your PCno sound and no text leave it during use
Hear a session
Press play. Hear the desk at work.
One real session from Tolkr™ Studio, with its sound. Move the sliders as you would in Tolkr™ Studio: they work the same way, while it plays.
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English → Portuguese
A live session
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English → Portuguese
A live session
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Captions
- Good evening, and thank you for joining us today.Boa noite, e obrigado por se juntar a nós hoje.
Sound mix
Original
Voice
Sound only when you press play. 36 seconds.
The sound, the captions and the voice are those of a real session in Tolkr™ Studio, English to Portuguese. The mixer on this page does what the app's mixer does.
Sources
Where the sound comes from.
Choose one source for a session. Tolkr™ listens to it, and nothing about the source has to change.
Every speaker and headset of the PC, a sound card input, or the output Windows uses. With all sound chosen, Tolkr™'s own voice is left out.
- Good for
- A channel in the browser, a video player, a stream, anything that plays sound.
- To know
- You can turn the original to zero in your ears and still have it translated. See Mixing.
Choose from the apps playing sound now, the open windows or the programs in the background. Tolkr™ hears only those, and other sounds of the PC stay out.
- Good for
- One player or one call while notifications and music go on.
- To know
- A browser is heard with all its tabs. Quiet apps can be boosted, and the session can stop by itself after a set time.
A microphone in the room or a line in from a mixing desk. Both lines can go on the room's screen.
- Good for
- A lecture, a visitor at the desk, a speaker in a hall.
- To know
- Use headphones for the voice, so the microphone does not hear it again.
A video or sound file played as if it were live, at its own pace: MP4, MOV, WAV, MP3, M4A, WMA, AAC, FLAC or OGG.
- Good for
- Trying a language pair, or rehearsing before an event.
- To know
- For a finished dub with each sentence in sync, use Dub a file.
The screen
What you see while it runs.
- Two linesThe original small, the translation large. Right to left reads right to left by itself.
- What to showBoth lines, the translation alone or the original alone. Text from 0.8 to 1.6 times its size.
- Captions onlyOne button shows only the captions and a slim bar. Esc brings the rest back.
- SwapFrom and To change places with one button.
- At hand while it runsThe sound mix and the caption window. The setup waits until you stop.
Caption window
Captions on top of any app.
A window of captions that stays above everything else: the video, the call, the slides. Try its settings here.
The Harbor Authority is opening a new ferry service.
A Autoridade Portuária está inaugurando um novo serviço de balsa.
Look
Show
- Drag it anywhere and size it from its edges. Its place is kept for each screen.
- Lock it, and clicks go through to the app under it.
- Ctrl Alt O shows or hides it.
- One to four lines, your font, colours and edge, saved as your own look.
- It clears by itself a few seconds after the last line.
The caption window, with its real settings. It is part of Tolkr™ Studio for Windows.
Mixing
Turn the original down. Tolkr™ still hears it.
What you hear and what Tolkr™ hears are kept apart. Set the sound for your ears, and the translation goes on.
The voice
Over the original
- The voice speaks the translation
- The original drops under it
- It comes back between sentences
The voice and the original under it each have their own level.
- PresetsOne click
Balanced, Voice first or Original first set the whole mix at once.
- SteadyFor quiet originals
Tolkr™ can keep the level it hears steady, so a quiet speaker is still translated.
- Voice speed0.8 to 2 times
Set the base speed of the voice.
Afterwards
Stop, and the session is saved.
Every finished session stays on your systems: what was heard, the voice, the mix, and every line in both languages. Press a line to hear it again.
Use cases
Who follows it live.
- Live channelsFollow a foreign channel live on a PC, with captions and a natural voice, on your organisation's own systems.
- Newsroom monitoringFollow the channel as it airs, then read back the whole transcript. For newsrooms, on your own systems.
- Press conferencesFollow a press conference as it happens, and keep the full bilingual record on your own systems.
- GovernmentFollow statements, calls and recordings in your language, on your own systems, with nothing sent out during use.
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.
Can I have captions without the voice?
Yes. Choose no voice, and Tolkr™ shows captions only.
Can it translate a video call?
Yes. Meetings have their own mode, in both directions. See Video meetings.
Which languages?
Captions in 130 languages, and a natural voice in 36, into English and out of it. Look up your pair in Languages.
Do I need headphones?
With a microphone, yes, so the voice does not reach the microphone. With the whole PC or one app, speakers are fine.
What is kept after a session?
The sound that was heard, the voice, the mix and every line in both languages, in the Sessions page, on your systems.
Bring what you listen to.
We run Tolkr™ on a stream or recording you choose, so you judge it on your own material.
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