Open-source
speech translation

Tools for real-time, local-first English ↔ Mandarin translation.
No accounts. No data leaves your machine.

CLI

live-translate

Real-time English ↔ δΈ­ζ–‡ speech translation

Fully local, push-to-talk translator. No cloud API required. Whisper for ASR, Opus-MT (or your choice of cloud provider) for translation, Piper for TTS.

npm install -g live-translate
MCP

live-translate-mcp

MCP server for Claude Desktop

Gives Claude the ability to translate audio files. Whisper and Piper run locally; Claude itself handles translation. No local services to manage.

npm install -g live-translate-mcp